{"id":3199,"date":"2025-08-28T17:40:35","date_gmt":"2025-08-28T16:40:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.schoolofdesignleeds.com\/ds25\/?p=3199"},"modified":"2025-08-28T17:41:43","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T16:41:43","slug":"anqi-zhang","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.schoolofdesignleeds.com\/ds25\/anqi-zhang\/","title":{"rendered":"Anqi Zhang"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"sitecontainer\">\n<div class=\"pagecontainer\">\n<h4 class=\"homepage-heading-h4\">Degree Show 2025<\/h4>\n<div class=\"postcontainer\">\n<h1 class=\"thestudentpostname\" id=\"studentpostname\">Anqi Zhang<\/h1>\n<h3>MA Art and Design<\/h3>\n<p class=\"studentstatement\">Hi! my name is Anqi Zhang, a graduate student in University of Leeds and Im studying at master of Art and Design. My study area is User Experience and my work is trying to solve the issues in Xiaohongshu, an app in China and became famous in recent year because of TikTok refugees. I use a new way to translate the language on app to let people know some complicate or other unknown words such as &#8220;lol&#8221; in English and &#8220;666&#8221; in Chinese.<\/p>\n<div class=\"socialstack\"><span class=\"material-icons md-24\">handshake<\/span><a href=\"#\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Connect with <span id=\"withme\"><\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<p><!--FILE01 IMG--><\/p>\n<div class=\"mediafileviewer mfvimages\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading =\"lazy\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.schoolofdesignleeds.com\/ds25\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Zhang-Anqi-03.png\" width=\"100%\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" class=\"lazyload\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 1512px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 1512\/1065;\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"mfv-caption\">This thesis, User Experience Design in Social Media: Facilitating Cross-Cultural Understanding and Communication of Chinese Internet Culture on the Rednote Platform, was completed by Zhang Anqi as part of the MA Art &#038; Design program at the University of Leeds, School of Design. 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