Lily Zhou is a
creative developer
based in Berlin
Hi, I’m Lily. I create award-winning digital experiences, with an emphasis on engaging interactivity, refined design, and accessibility.
Over the years, I’ve worked on projects ranging from immersive storytelling experiences and browser games to e-commerce stores and corporate websites. My background is in multidisciplinary design and media art — creative coding, projection mapping, a/v art— and I’ve been making things on the Internet since the early ’00s.
I’m currently a developer at Ableton. ♫
Selected work
- At Home
Editorial project highlighting the pandemic, quarantine, and protest experiences of creatives around the world (2020)
- Makers Club Berlin
Experimental bilingual website for a creatives’ meetup I co-host, currently paused (2020)
- Jigsaw/The Current
Website and publication for the Google unit addressing emerging digital threats like disinformation and violent extremism (2020)
- Hello from Here
Location-based kinetic typography poster generator and gallery (2019)
- Affirm
New website for the buy-now-pay-later financial technology company (2019)
- Chromebooks
Refresh of Google’s Chromebooks website (2017-19)
- Blue Heart
Immersive digital experience for Patagonia’s documentary film on the fight for Europe’s last wild rivers (2018)
- Santa’s Canvas
Kid Pix-esque drawing game built for the annual Google Santa Tracker program (Santa’s Canvas: 2018, Santa Tracker: 2016-2018)
- Upperquad
New portfolio site for the creative agency (2017)
- This is Bears Ears
Interactive VR film experience for Patagonia’s campaign to save the national monument (2017)
All projects above as a developer at Upperquad.
Clients
- YouTube
- Patagonia
- TensorFlow
- Affirm
- Lightstep
- Robinhood
- Caffeinated Capital
- Stanford University
- 826 Valencia
- + more
Recognition
Webbys
- (1) Winner
- (4) Nominee
- (2) Honoree
Communication Arts
- (1) Winner, Interactive
- (5) Webpicks
Awwwards
- (6) Site of the Day
- (1) Site of the Month Nominee
- (5) Developer Award
- (4) Mobile Excellence
- (3) Honorable Mention
FWA
- (6) FWA of the Day
- (3) Insights
CSS Design Awards
- (2) Website of the Day
- (1) Special Kudos
HOVERSTAT.ES
- (1) Feature
Say hi
I’m happy to hear about interesting freelance web development projects. Let’s chat!