Education
MS, Human-Computer Interaction Design | May 2010
Indiana University-Bloomington, IN
BS, Telecommunication Engineering | Jun 2008
Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications (BUPT), China
Work Experience
User Experience Designer Adobe Digital Marketing Business Unit, Jul 2010 – present
- Lead the user experience design of two enterprise web applications, participating in the complete product development cycle.
- Plan the design process and operate in the full spectrum of design from problem framing and ideation, to iteration via prototyping, to pixel-perfect visual mockups in a fast-paced environment.
- Advocate and shape the roles of User Experience Team within multi-million dollar business unit and champion human-centered design methods and process.
- Facilitate brainstorms and articulate design rationale with cross-functional teams such as product managers, engineers, and other designers.
- Lead and participate in various strategy initiatives such as constructing the pattern library and building the Adobe Omniture User Insight Group.
- Led the user experience design of the largest release of Adobe Survey to date, which was declared “a massive step forward” by a major customer.
Interaction Designer Intern 39 Degrees North | May 2009 – Jul 2009
- Applied user‐centered design methods to redesign core software for main client
- Led on‐site interviews and observations to understand and advocate for user needs
- Communicated design in various fidelities and forms with stakeholders and users throughout the design process.
- Wrote user research report and software development specifications
- worked closely with developers, project manager and marketing manager to make design and implementation decisions while communicating design process
Other Experience
Microsoft Imagine Cup Competition 2009 | Feb 2009-Jul 2009
Won 1st place in Accessible Design Award and 2nd place in Design out of more than 300 teams after three rounds of competition.
Associate Instructor | Sep 2008 – May 2010
School of Informatics, Indiana University-Bloomington
- mentored teams to frame real world problems, design and develop technical solutions with human-centered thinking, design methods and skills
- Helped students develop design judgement and skills by mentoring them in design practices, grading and critiquing design work, and facilitating project reflections.
- Designed and led discussion sessions for Social Informatics, which introduced human-centered perspectives to technology and its social context.
Researcher, Human-Computer Interaction Group, BUPT | Oct 2007-Jun 2008
- Designed research plan and directed a team to study voice search services.
- Published a paper in the proceeding of the 21st International Symposium on Human Factors in Telecommunications (HFT2008)
