Hyemin Kim is a designer who focuses on user-experiences through designing materials. She is interested in exploring materials by pushing its boundaries and by researching how people perceive the values of a material. She worked as a material designer for the automotive, furniture, fashion and mobile industry in the field of new material developing. Afterwards, she did her master degree in Product Design focusing on challenging our perceptions of recycled polymers through innovative reprocessing. In the future she would like to expand her experiences in material designs.