Yixun Li is a PhD candidate in Design Informatics, supervised by Dr Bettina Nissen and Dr Andrea Ford (Centre for Biomedicine, Self and Society). She has several years of UX design experience across industry and academia. Her research sits at the intersection of feminist perspectives, materiality, embodied interaction, and intimate health, with a particular focus on menstruation. She explores how material engagement can serve as both a way of bodily interaction and a practice of knowledge-making, emphasising embodied, sensuous, and material forms of knowing that are often overlooked in technology design. Through participatory, speculative, and co-design approaches, she works with people to explore how lived experiences and knowledge can be translated across different media, including textiles and shape-changing technologies. Her work seeks to open up more curious, open-ended ways of interacting with the body and explore how these ways of knowing might expand the possibilities of technology design.