Yoon Park
Principal Designer - Reality Labs, Input & Interaction Design at Meta
Los Angeles, California, United States
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Yoon Park is a Principal Designer and creative technologist with over a decade shaping spatial input and interaction for Meta Quest, Horizon OS, and previously Microsoft HoloLens. He blends design and engineering expertise to lead interaction SDKs, design systems, and open-source tooling—most notably contributing to the Mixed Reality Toolkit (MRTK) used across the spatial computing community. His background spans mobile UI and systems work at Samsung to design leadership at Microsoft, giving him rare fluency in both low-level implementation and high-level design language. An author of best-selling iOS programming books in Korea and creator of TypeInsight, he pairs published thought leadership with hands-on coding and UI polish. Based in Redmond and originally from Seoul, he is recognized among “30 People To Watch In Augmented Reality” for shaping common spatial interaction patterns. He often bridges research, developer ecosystems, and product teams to turn experimental input modalities into shipping developer platforms.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelors Degree of Engineering School of Electrical Engineering, Bachelors Degree of Engineering School of Electrical Engineering at Korea UniversityCommunication Design, Communication Design at SADI(Samsung Art & Design Institute)Master of Fine Arts (MFA) Design & Technology, Master of Fine Arts (MFA) Design & Technology at Parsons School of Design - The New School
English, Japanese, Korean
Github Skills (4)
user-interface10
object-oriented-programming9
cprogramming-language9
front-end-development8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
microsoft/MixedRealityToolkit-Unity
Nov 2016 - Sep 2022
This repository is for the legacy Mixed Reality Toolkit (MRTK) v2. For the latest version of the MRTK please visit https://github.com/MixedRealityToolkit/MixedRealityToolkit-Unity
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:47 reviews, 721 commits, 228 PRs in 5 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Yoon primarily worked on refactoring and improving the existing UI within the project. They were involved in modifying the code of existing UI elements, assigning different material, and updating positioning and styling across multiple UI elements. The changes reflect a focus on improving the overall user experience by refining the visual details of existing UI components and fixing minor visual issues.
accelerateapp-developmentrealityopenvrmixed-reality-toolkit
cre8ivepark/MixedRealityToolkit-Unity
May 2018 - Sep 2022
This is effectively part of the existing HoloToolkit, but is the repo that will contain all Unity specific components.
Contributions:130 commits, 5 PRs, 765 pushes in 4 years 5 months
unity3dunityholotoolkit
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