👋 Hi! I'm ning (pronounced like in "Good Eve-ning"). I'm an immigrant and a mother, and I'm tinkering a lot of stuff. I think in a mix of English and Dutch, while my mother tongues are Hangzhou dialect and Mandarin Chinese. I've been working on projects focusing on social impact, where technology plays a crucial enabling role, and forward and long-term thinking is prioritised. I'm always trying to create something new, and I also shuffle dance.
NING XU
🖌 Writing & Illustrating
- blogs, about identity, cultural disassociation, and multilingual parenting
- bonus essay, how I learned Dutch, which might help any new language learning
- picture books, about emotions
🤖 Building
- an app to pick in different languages a set of flash cards for multilingual children's first 100 words, get them printed and shipped, Name TBD
- an app to super quickly take notes of conversations, Name TBD
- (discontinued) an easy-to-use dictionary for multilingual families
- (discontinued) iOS app Doodle Today, to draw every day to count down
♻️ (wannabe) Making
- a small home fablab, workshop space with various tools and materials, able to turn (almost any) household old products into functional objects