Summary
Yue Wu is a Design Director at McKinsey with nine years of cross-disciplinary experience bridging creative technology, urbanism, and product design. Trained at MIT and Tongji with a background in architecture and urban design, she translates complex spatial and data-driven problems into elegant digital and physical experiences. At McKinsey she progressed rapidly from senior designer to director, while teaching and mentoring at MIT, Pratt, and in entrepreneurship programs—demonstrating both practice and pedagogy. Her work blends humanities-led thinking with practical information architecture and UX, informed by research stints at the MIT Media Lab and sustainability analytics. Colleagues describe her as a maker who brings architectural rigor to digital design, and she pairs that with a playful, community-minded ethos hinted at by a GitHub bio that reads “Friendship is Magic.”
9 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Exchange Design and Planning, Exchange Design and Planning at National Cheng Kung University
Master of Architecture - MArch Design and Theory, Master of Architecture - MArch Design and Theory at Tongji University
Bachelor of Architecture - BArch Architecture Design, Bachelor of Architecture - BArch Architecture Design at Dalian University of Technology
Master of Science - MS Architecture Studies Urbanism, Master of Science - MS Architecture Studies Urbanism at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Exchange Architecture, Exchange Architecture at University of the West of England
Chinese, English, Spanish