Lua
Boon Yi

Game designer & front-end developer.

Portrait of Lua Boon Yi

Profile

I structure, prototype and refine digital interfaces so they just make sense the second you touch them.

Education

Singapore Polytechnic
Diploma in Media, Arts & Design
Game Design & Development
2022 to 2025
3.49/ 4.0
CGPA Cumulative Grade Point Average
Fuchun Secondary School
Singapore-Cambridge GCE O-Level
2017 to 2021

Highlights

9 months
Experience in practical design work across an internship and freelance
1 project
Featured on Lianhe Zaobao

Languages

English, Chinese (Mandarin)

Nationality

Malaysian, based in Johor Bahru.

What I can do

Each of these comes from a real project or internship.

2
major projects

Cross-Functional Teams

Managed team workflows and task delegation across 2 major projects: leading a 7-developer team for my FYP and overseeing project milestones for an IMDA initiative during my internship.

22
sessions run

User Testing Sessions

Ran 22 user testing sessions, mapping player behavior and decision-making to prioritize UX fixes based on real data.

200+
product listings

E-Commerce Assets Standardized

Overhauled 200+ product listings to fix inconsistent layouts and ensure clean visual presentation across the store.

Showcase

Projects

LTA Edutainment Game

Singapore Polytechnic, Team Lead & Designer
Project management
  • Led a team of 7 developers, delegated tasks and ran weekly syncs to unblock the team.
Creative direction
  • Sketched core concepts for many mini-games, character dialogues and quizzes, and filtered team ideas into one coherent vision.
Client relations
  • Primary contact for the Land Transport Authority (LTA), aligning deliverables with their requirements.
User testing & QA
  • Designed feedback forms and ran 22 user testing sessions across builds to prioritise critical bug fixes.
Public showcase
  • Published the web game in Unity (WebGL) to teach the public to be a caring commuter.
  • Presented it to then Minister of Transport Chee Hong Tat at Caring Commuter Week 2024. It was featured in Lianhe Zaobao.
Caring Journeys with Commuter Champions Gameplay

Skills

Design

  • Adobe Photoshop
  • Illustrator
  • Premiere Pro

Game engines

  • Unity (C#)
  • Unreal Engine 4 & 5 (Visual Scripting)

Web

  • HTML
  • CSS
  • JavaScript
  • WordPress CMS

Office

  • PowerPoint
  • Word
  • Excel
  • Google Slides & Docs