Hi, I'm Sarah Tan!

I am a designer specialising in Product Design and AR/VR based in Melbourne, Australia. I previously designed digital experiences for Google, NASA, Facebook, Adobe, Mastercard, and more. I am passionate about creating meaningful and ethical user experiences as she believes that design is a powerful tool of influence. Currently, I am a Product Designer at Atlassian.

I am passionate about pushing innovation in the immersive industry. My love for immersive tech started when I was working at Google under their innovation department (Google Creative Lab). This led me to find my passion in experimenting and pushing the design boundaries of AR/VR. My AR/VR work has been featured in Adobe, 7NEWS, 9NEWS, ABC, The Australian, SBS Australia, B&T, and more. I have spoken at conferences such as VR/AR Global Summit, conduct AR/VR Workshops for universities, internal company events, and startups.

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Outside of work, I love sharing my experiences and creating frameworks through writing articles in Medium. Apart from that, I enjoy spending hours in a cafe doodling with a good cup of coffee, spending time drawing in VR, and doing random coding projects like this!

Speaking

Immerse Global Summit, How to create storytelling experiences with Augmented Reality (AR) - 2022

AFTRS Make It Conference, Games, VFX and Virtual Production Panel - 2022

HEX x Study Melbourne, Augment your reality with Sarah Tan - 2022

UX Ladies, How to apply UX/UI design principles to create AR/VR experiences - 2021

VR/AR Global Summit Fall, How to Design Impactful Augmented Reality (AR) Experiences - 2021

Design Leadership Malaysia, More than pixels - 2021

VR/AR Global Summit Summer, Create Immersive Art with Augmented Reality (AR) - 2021

City of Melbourne, UX/UI Design Workshop - 2021

Students of UXD, Creating Impactful UX for AR/VR - 2021

UNSW University, Branding Made Simple Workshop - 2020

Friends of Figma, Create Impactful Augmented Reality and Digital Experiences with Animation - 2020

Adobe, My Adobe Creative Residency Experience - 2020

Facebook Sydney, Women in AR/VR - 2019

Google Sydney, Humanising Technology with Art - 2018

RMIT University, Design start up and Silicon Valley - 2017

RMIT University, Design Entrepreneurship Lecture -2017

Art Exhibitions

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Jianchi: Augmented Reality Artwork on Immigration, Multicultural Arts Victoria, Victoria 2022

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Let's Talk Perspective, in collaboration with Deborah Faye Lee, Diversity Arts Australia, Sydney 2021

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Unseen: Augmented Reality Solo Art Exhibition

107 Projects, Sydney 2020

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Sound and Image

Museum of Photographic Arts (MOPA), San Diego 2019

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Illustration and Augmented Reality: Unseen Expectations

Human Library Exhibition, Sydney 2019​

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Projection Light Shows

A Night in Egypt 

UMSU International Night Market, Melbourne Uni 2017

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Imaginative Landscapes (Collaboration)

White Night Melbourne 2017

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Imaginative Landscapes (Collaboration)

RMIT Urban Animators, Swanston St, Melbourne 2016