Summary
Product designer with a UI/UX, product thinking, and cross-disciplinary engineering background. I work closely with POs/PMs and stakeholders to clarify the problem, converge on a direction, and turn it into precise, shippable user experience. My work spans B2B AI energy management, quantitative trading, and Web3 services, covering user research and interviews, competitive analysis, wireframing/prototyping, interface and interaction design, design systems, and cross-functional collaboration. I also bring AI tools into design, front-end prototyping, and product spec work to frame problems, design MVPs, and align business goals with user needs.
Education
M.S. in Digital Content & Technologies — HCI and UX Design Focus • Sep. 2023 – May 2026 • GPA 4.07
Graduate focus: Human-Computer Interaction, UX Research, Interaction Design, Design Thinking, and Human-AI Interaction
Bachelor's degree, Mechanical Engineering • 2017 – 2021
Minor focus: Design Thinking, User-Centered Design
Work Experience
UIUX Design Intern
Jun. 2024 – Aug. 2024
- Worked with another design intern, guided by the PM and full-time designer, to turn predefined GenAI requirements into proactive decision-support concepts through competitive analysis, user interviews, and feature design.
- Ran the Early Design Campaign's kickoff, midterm, and final POC reviews within 2.5 months and presented results to the CEO; owned the wireframes and interactive prototypes for overage alerts and pattern recognition.
- Both design concepts were accepted for further planning; provided research and design proposals for PM prioritization, with backend implementation of overage alerts underway before the internship ended.
UIUX & PM Intern
Mar. 2023 – Oct. 2023
- Designed and shipped three core trading flows for a global quantitative trading product, so users no longer had to return to the exchange to intervene manually; in internal testing, average task time fell from 65 to 27 seconds — a 58% reduction.
- Reorganized the existing Figma design system across 20+ trading flows, aligned naming with the front-end Storybook glossary and annotated reusable components, so design and engineering could map directly to existing implementations.
- Served as assistant PO on an eight-engineer, biweekly Scrum team — prioritized user feedback and coordinated the UI team in shipping 6+ features; completed tickets per Sprint rose about 44% on average.
Product Designer (Contract)
Nov. 2022 – Feb. 2023
- Led user research and wireframing for a DID digital credential platform; when participants turned out to have no real experience with digital credentials, shifted the interview guide to exploratory research — probing decision concerns and execution barriers rather than feature detail.
- Ran 9 role-based interviews across issuers, applicants, and verifiers, correcting the team's assumption: verification was a value-add rather than a must-have, which narrowed the product positioning.
- Collaborated with the PM and Cathay Financial Holdings' technology team to deliver wireframes and Figma interactive prototypes, completing a full-platform walkthrough.
Assistant Project Manager
May. 2021 – Dec. 2021
- Coordinated engineers, suppliers, and cross-border schedules across Taiwan and China; joined meetings with Japan-based developers and provided test units and materials ~1.5 weeks ahead of scheduled engineering testing.
- Across two milestones, coordinated alternate suppliers and delivery schedules when test materials ran short, so engineers received the materials and testing proceeded on time.
Skills
Figma | Visual & Interaction Design | Layout & Typography | Wireframing & Interactive Prototyping | Motion Design | LottieLab | Design Systems | Responsive Web Design | Photoshop / Illustrator | Adobe XD / AE | User Research | Agile/Scrum | HTML/CSS/JavaScript