Bryan Min

I'm a first-year Ph.D. student at UC San Diego in the Cognitive Science Department doing research in Human-Computer Interaction. I work with Haijun Xia as a member of the Foundation Interface Lab.

My research focuses on giving end-users greater control over their interfaces in a frictionless, in-situ manner. I am building malleable interfaces—interfaces that allow users to easily, expressively, and broadly customize their software without code or bloated lists of settings. A key approach is user-defined abstractions, allowing users to shape their interface's details and representations to fit their needs. To enable such flexibility, I explore interface design patterns and develop novel interaction techniques to facilitate customization and control across diverse domains, including sensemaking, information management, and generative AI interaction.

You can reach me via email: bdmin@ucsd.edu