UI/UX/Product Designer
Greater Los Angeles Area
Hi, I’m Ning. I grew up a nerd in China, the youngest son of a big four kids’ family. In the first year of my undergraduate school, I won the outstanding prize on the First National Footwear Competition hosted by Li Ning company ( the first sportswear brand in China). As the youngest competitor, it earned me $1,000, a bunch of flowers, and, most deeply, great enlightening passion for design.
My first full-time job after graduation was a low paid designer in Beijing working whole day tried to copy designs of successful products on the market, which was pretty common back then. I quit one week later because I believe design means more than that.
I end up studying design at the Carnegie Mellon University as a master student. After that, I joined a startup based in Pittsburgh where I worked on pretty much everything from logo redesign, website rebuilt to office decoration, photography. I was able to do a lot of different things with great responsibility. What I love about startups is that it’s nearly impossible not to notice a job well done and your work will be well recognized.
In 2014, I moved to LA working as a full-time UI/UX designer since then. Here I like the sunshine, beach, and palm trees. When I take time off work, I love working on handmade stuff from handcrafted iPad case to homemade recipes.
SKILLS
Sketch
Balsamiq
Illustrator
Photoshop
Keynote
Premiere
Wordpress
html/css
EDUCATION
Carnegie Mellon University
Master | Product/Interaction Design
(2012 – 2013) Pittsburgh, USA
Beihang University
B.S. | Industrial Design
(2006 – 2010) Beijing, China
EXPERIENCE
Senior UI/UX Designer
Cheetah Software Systems, Inc.
01/2017 – Present Los Angeles
- Set the strategic visions, evaluate the UI design and usability of the current applications and present ideas for improvement.
- Drive UX strategy and execution across the properties and platforms (including mobile, and desktop), following user-centric design principles.
- Collaborate with developers to evaluate new design concepts and incorporate into existing applications.
- Participate in UI design and prototyping of new applications. Own the end-to end UX design process and deliverable set (including user flows, wireframes and prototypes, functional/business rules and requirements) to effectively conceptualize and communicate high-level UX design strategies and detailed interaction behaviors across devices and platforms.
- Presents UI design concepts to our development team, sales team and customers.
- Serve as the customer experience advocate in considering decisions that will impact the customer.
- Guide user experience leads to ensure research and designs are well understood by customers.
Senior Product Designer
Hommily, Inc.
11/2015 – 12/2016 (1year 2 moths) Los Angeles
- Led design for products (mobile app, website) from “zero to one”.
- Worked closely with engineering team to launch iOS app (Hommily, version 0.0-current), website (hommily.com), and H5 pages successfully with clean intuitive user interfaces.
- Drove product design solutions and built prototypes within 2 months that helped gain first 500 users.
- Iterate on designs and keep product updates based on feedback from the team, user, and data, which helped grow user rate by 50% per month.
UI/UX Designer
Gesoo
02/2015 – 11/2015 (10 months) Los Angeles
- Executed the entire design process for mobile iOS App (Gesoo, version 0.1-2.2), new websites (gesoo.com, gesoo.com/driver), logo, and branding leading to sales increasing by 150% and capture the #1 position for oriental food delivery within 3 months after launch.
- Designed and implemented semantic clean UI and an engaging user experience that successfully helped reduce ordering time by 80%.
- Collaborated with engineers on moving a product from concept to public release.
Full Stack Designer
WholeRen
08/2013 – 02/2015 (1 year 7 months) Pittsburgh
- Executed and led design for logo, website, and corporate identity which helped team scale rapidly and increased sales by 120% over the first year.
- Designed and coded the first version of our website using WordPress within one week.
- Collaborated with team to define and implement innovative solutions and strategies for the business to deliver a better user experience.
Freelance Graphic Designer/Web Designer
08/2010 – 08/2012 (2 years 1 month) Pittsburgh
- Designed graphics for branding and websites that served more than 30 happy clients.
SEND MESSAGE
ning.z.designer@gmail.com | +1 (626) 696-0686
