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The lab of Nathalie Chou, folded between Taipei and Los Angeles. Where precision, craft, and imagination converge.

under the lens

the night queen, up close

every fold begins as anatomy — studied, measured, then folded in light.

The Folds

Websites folded by hand — light that trails a fingertip, origami that blooms for an open palm, pages that listen for a pulse.

Precision first, then grace — every site here is folded by hand.

nathalie

A paralegal in Los Angeles, then seven years moving aircraft between Taiwan and the rest of the world — deals where the details are the deal.

Now that precision folds into websites you can touch — concept, palette, type, code, and every interaction, by hand.

About the Lab

Every fold
has a past life.

I came to design the long way around — through law offices, hangars, and cockpits. For seven years I managed international aircraft sales and refurbishments between Taiwan and the rest of the world: high-value deals, cross-border compliance, legal teams, factories, lessors — complex, multi-party work where the details are the deal.

Before that I was a paralegal in Los Angeles, supporting attorneys on criminal and civil cases — document translation, trial-preparation support, and interpreting between Mandarin, Taiwanese, and English, all under attorney supervision. Every one of those lives taught the same lesson the paper teaches: precision first, then grace. The Lab is where all of it folds together.

The Craft

How I design and build
Websites you can touch

My creativity starts where the screen usually stops: at the body. I design and build every site here myself — the concept, the palette, the type, the code, and every interaction, hand-written rather than assembled from a template. They are made to be felt, not just clicked — light that trails your fingertip, origami flowers that bloom for an open palm, galleries that glide under your hand, and pages that can read your actual pulse through a phone camera. Each interaction is designed like a fold: precise underneath, effortless on the surface, and always in service of the person it belongs to.

Latest client fold
A site with a heartbeat — for a nursing educator

The design question was: what does a nurse's website feel like? The answer became the site's two signatures. Touch design — a warm light that follows the visitor's cursor or fingertip, the way attention follows a patient. And pulse measurement — rest a fingertip over the phone's rear camera and the page listens, drawing a real heartbeat live on screen. The profession, folded into the interaction itself. Read the case study →

Experience

2025 — Present
Founder & Designer — Nathalie Chou Lab · AstraStella LLC

Designing and building interactive websites by hand — concept, palette, type, code, and every interaction — for the Lab's experiments and for clients.

2023 — 2025
The bridge years — Taiwan

Security & cybersecurity support at TSMC (2023), international sales coordination at Nan Huang Traffic Instruments (2024), and administrative interpretation for Nvidia events with Production Resource Group (2025) — three very different rooms, the same precision.

2016 — 2023
Aviation Sales & Project Coordinator — international

Managed sales, client relations, and project coordination for private and commercial aircraft — transactions, refurbishments, and the import/export of aircraft parts for factories in Taiwan. Kept deals moving across borders — coordination, compliance support, and language support for aviation teams and stakeholders along the way.

2015 — 2016
Paralegal — LimNexus LLP, Los Angeles

Supported attorneys and their clients on criminal and civil matters — document translation and witness-preparation support, under attorney supervision.

Education & Certifications

Private — shared by invitation
The complete record, behind a passphrase

Degrees, licenses, and certificates — from the FAA private pilot certificate to Google and Anthropic AI certifications — with issuer, date, and verification link for each. For privacy, the full record lives on a protected page and is shared by invitation. Open the protected records →  ·  Need access? Contact me →

What I bring

Relationship Building Problem Solving Adaptability Project Coordination Strategic Thinking Interactive Web Design Touch & Gesture Interfaces Design & Front-End Build

The next fold could be yours.