This my first portfolio after graduated from San Francisco State University with a product design degree.

1. PORTFOLIO
PORTFOLIO
PORTFOLIO
PORTFOLIO
PORTFOLIO

2. DESIGN
HAD BROUGHT ME
FROM CHINA TO AMERICA.
I AM
CREATIVE,INNOVATIVE,
AND PASSIONATE.
I LOVE DESIGN.
“Good design encourages people to
change the way they behave,”
LEo Xin ZHAO

3. Xin ZHAO LEo
Leadership, Excellency and Optimism is me, Leo,Xin Zhao. I am creative,innovative, and passionate.i love design.
Thank you for taking time review my portfolio.
My design works covers a good range of products, such as kitchen ware design, furniture design,exhibition booth design, packaging design and graphic de-
sign. I am really good at Solid Works renderings and model making. I am good at product sketching. Since we had a wood shop in my design department, I am
familiar with the whole design process including model-making processes. I am familiar and good at CNC machine manufacturing process and I am able to use
laser-cutting printer.
This portfolio includes most of the works I did in my undergrad studies and I am looking forward to create more and better projects in the near future.

4. bob a universal bowl design

5. bob a universal bowl design
Problem
Eating is a main part of people’s life. Using a bowl to eat rice, noodles and drinking soup is very common. However,
normal bowls don’t have a place for people to hold. Such as when people want to carry the bowl from kitchen, it will be
difficult to carry when there is something hot inside the bowl. In addition, if there is something in one hand, it will be dif-
ficult to carry the bowl unless the bowl has a handle. It will be much more difficult for handicapped people with one hand
or without hands to carry the bowl. When people drink soup, the hotness might burn them when they hold the bowl.
Normal spoons don’t have a hook part. Therefore, they always fall into the soup bowl if the bowl is big.
SCeNarIo
Lena is a new mom, she need to hold her baby most of the time. Most of the time her hands will be busy holding the
baby. However, she still need to prepare food for herself. She wish the bowl she is using have
some kind of part that she can grab by one hand, so she can carry the bowl from kitchen to her living room.
PrINCIPle
Size and space for approach and use
Equitable to use
Flexibility to use
Simple to use
Low physical effort
target market
Since it is universally designed bowl, my target market could
be anyone. It can be anyone who is doing something with one
hand while want to carry some soup with the other hand. It
would benefit handicapped people who just have one hand or
no hands.
PerSoNa
However, this will more likely be my ideal target audience
AGE 20-30
STATUS Single
OCCUPATION Students/Just start working
LIVING CONDITION Share room

6. bob a universal bowl design
exIStINg ProduCtS INSPIrat IoNS
According to my research, there are not too many bowls with a ring part to grab onto, comfortable to grab
and with a spout for easier drinking.
Here are some existing examples:
HANDLE BOWL
Advantage: It has a handle for people to grab onto when drinking soup.
Bright color.
Disadvantage: Not everyone will be able to grab onto it easily.
No place to hold spoon.
LIP BOWL
Advantage: It has a lip for people to grab onto when drinking soup.
Bright color.
Disadvantage: The plastic looks cheap and not everyone will like the words on the lip.
Not deep enough for soup.
No place to hold spoon.
SPALTED OAk BOWL
Advantage: It has a lip for people to grab onto when drinking soup.
Disadvantage: The wood finish makes people feel not safe enough to eat with.
It is more like a decoration piece.
BOWL WITH SPOON REST
Advantage: It has a handle and one can place spoon onto it.
Easy to carry.
Disadvantage: Cannot really stack them together.
Why uNIverSal deSIgN?
During the whole research I realized sometime how things could be difficult for handicapped people. Some
very little things in daily life, which is common and easy for normal people, can be difficult for handicapped
people to do. Therefore, when we design, we need to keep them in mind and try to make our design can
reach as many people as possible and make their daily lives easier.

7. bob a universal bowl design
FUNCTIONS: Spout makes it easier for people to drink soup directly from the bowl
It is also a place holder for spoons, forks, or chopsticks
The lip can be a place to hold onto when people carry the bowl from
kitchen to dining room and people won’t get burnt if the soup is hot.
Even for people with no fingers, they can carry it by the lip so that the
bowl won’t fall. And they can drink soup from spout part.
The curve of the body is more ergonomic. People can hold the bowl from
the bottom as well.
When people want to get food from the bottom, the inside bottom part is
vertical, so people can press the spoon against the side to get food out
from the bowl. It also works for people with less hand strengh.
It is easy to clean.
Drink directly from the spout Spoon sits on the spout part Grab the top when it is hot Lift from the lip Comfortable to hold from Section view
Carry around by one hand the bottom

8. d-skin hot + warm tea cup design
over vIeW
Although there are plenty types of tea cups in the current market and the design of tea cup is short of standardized, I still want to bring this new idea of enjoying the hot
teas hotness and warmness at the same time by having different wall thickness for the tea cup.The main difference is the shape itself. It is very comfortable to hold.
The curve is unique.
unique The shape of the tea cup is differ from what we normally see
ergonomic Outside curve makes the cup very comfortable to hold
Practical Inside skin makes the cup easier to wash
Safety Two layers of walls will prevent people from getting burnt by the hot tea
INSPIratIoNS Simple, clean, double skin, modern, contemporary, transparent, white,hot, warm.
CoNCePt SketCheS

9. d-skin hot + warm tea cup design
Color / materIal teStINg
model makINg ProCeSS
FINIShed ProduCt

10. Lamp17
A Floor lamp design
Exploded View
INSPIratIoN
Inspired by Charles Rennie Mackintosh and Japanese architectures.
The inspirations came from architectures with simple and elegant shapes. There are 17 square
windows in the lamp for the reason that my birthday is 17th. I was trying to make my lamp ready
for the Design and Industry exhibition, so I finished the whole project two weeks ahead.
SIZe: 78.75”x12.75”6”

11. INSPIratIoN arChIteCtural
CoNCePt SketCheS
SCale modelS INSPIratIoN Charles Rennie Mackintosh reFINed model

12. develoPmeNt SolId WorkS 3d modelS Cad SPeCIFICatIoN
1 2 3 4
1. This model is based on the 1/4 prototype. My Professor suggested that it would look nice if it had
some kind of leg part.
2. However, it is still kind of massive. It is kind against the light idea of “light”. Therefore, I decide to
narrow it down again.
3. I got the scale I want this time but the lighting part is a little uneven.It feels head-heavy.
4. Finally, I got the right shape and the right lighting that I wanted.
model makINg ProCeSS

13. kidrobot Exhibition Booth Design
a concept trade show room design (made out of acrylic) top view
I chose red color is because very vivid which is also the theme of the toys--have fun with life. I made the booth really
colorful since their most famous toys are the “do it yourself” ones, you can color them or design them whatever you like, Cash Register
which is also why there is a part in the booth for people to design their toys when they visit the booth. D.I.Y. Area
Shelf
Shelf
The side shelves are made by Regular shelf comes from the cut Outside wall has the graphic of the toys and Inspired by the logo of the toys
laser printer. The shape comes from out pieces from the wall. It also logo to attract customers Size: 20”X20”X10”
the 3 most popular toys of kidrobot reinforced the toy icon Scale:1 inch=1 feet

14. FRESH Concept model for a perfume bottle design
visual
Perfume will fill in the
whole bottle
ergonomic
The shape is comfortable to hold
unique
Spray from the center
(Differ from the regular ones that
spray from the top of the bottle)
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Inspired by a petal. I was trying to do something unique
and fresh. The regular perfume bottles are spray from
the top part while mine is from the center. The liquid
will fill up to the top of the bottle to have more visual
dynamic.    

15. turning divider for Sink a design research on
shared sink space
Why?
In a shared apartment, sometimes people find it difficult to share
the sink space because not everyone will wash after themselves.
Therefore, dishes will pile up inside the sink, and it is difficult to
separate the items inside the sink.
Cap-tightening
turNINg
arm-turning/adjusting
hoW CaN It Solve the SINk Problem?
People will use the space that
belongs to them (house rule).
Easier to locate
items in the sink.
base-supporting Water can still go through
the gaps between the “arms”.
utensil holder
keep the arms straight/safety

16. light bulb Package design
The whole package is made out of one single piece
of paper
fold in
The window cut out part will be folded inside the
package so it can support the light bulb’s weight
It is easy to assemble, no glue is needed
People can see what kind of bulbs are inside the package
logo display on a shelf display horizontally

17. Floor Plan rendering
In this project my job was making the 2D
floor plan into 3D.
It gives a better visual of how the space is
going to be used.
It is the main lobby for PVT solar company.
They want to show customers how the solar
panels is installed on the roof top and also
how the water tanks are installed.The upper
left corner is two training class room and the
lower right corner is the rest area.

18. draWINgS

19. 3-d SolId WorkS modelS

20. raPId vISualIZatIoN SamPleS

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23. maIN SCreeN
DESIGN: V3.1
Flow Chat
FloW Chat Main Screen
Display: Showing Time, Date, year
Fortune cookies (will be over
lap with date and year when
being displayed)
Alarm (the ones being turned
on).
Weather (Temp & signs for
different weather)
Soft Keys: Settings, Light switch,
Talk key (active fortune
cookies),
Time switch key.
Indicators: Battery Meter
Settings Screen
Display: Time and date settings
Pop up 1: Turned off Screen
1 time one
You can turn off the screen to Blcak or Mirror by touching light key. 2 time two Pop up when the alarm Display: The Black screen.
Can also be used as a
3 time zone rings.
4 Military or am/pm mirror.
Can choose snooze or turn
Alarms: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Weather setting off (Snooze will be larger Soft Keys: Can go back to Screen 1
Switch between Tips / than turn off) by touching anywhere
Horoscopes/ Fortune cookies of the screen.
Soft Keys: Everything shown is soft
key which can lead people
to set up in pop screens.
Content: logo for main screen
Pop up 2 Pop up 3 Pop up 4 Pop up 5
Three screens for time Five screens for alarm Weather settings: Switch between
adjust section adjust section Zip code enter Tips /
Celsius/Fahrenheit Horoscopes/
Set up time 1 Set up alarm 15 Fortune cookies
Set up time 2 Turn on/off alarm Arrows for changing
When the screen turns black, you can go to the mirror screen by touching Choose Military or
AM/PM Arrows for changing
zip code and
Celsius/Fahrenheit.
Arrows for switching
messages.
anywhere of the balck screen. Arrows for changing
time.
Donego back to Donego back to
time. Donego back to main screen 2 main screen 2
You can go back to main screen by touching anywhere of the mirror screen.
main screen 2
Donego back to
main screen 2
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