About Me
I'm a designer
A type of designer who is not just creating simple and intuitive interface, but always asking a lots of questions to solve the real problem.
To me, understanding user's pain points and business strategy is the key driver for my workflow and considering complexities like multiple users, scenarios, touch points, etc.
In the past, I have immersed myself in collaborating with the research team to co-creating personas, user journeys, service blueprints. I have also whiteboard with my PMs and stakeholders to align understanding and solutions.
A little fun fact, sometimes I like to draw ...
How I get into the UX Design...
I started my journey as a UX designer in 2014.
At that time, I was an undergrad student in China. I accidentally went to Beijing for an interview invitation for a design internship in a technology company and started the first UX career in my life. As many tech giants started to bloom at that time, I'm excited as landed into an unknown island full of opportunities, challenges, and new words. "UX" is one of them, and I found myself fall in love with it.
As a year of internship ended, I start to struggle with a life choice: should I pursue my passion for the design, or should I go back to what I previously studied - architecture and urban planning in order to make my family happy? I hesitate to make a choice, and as I'm thinking of it, I came to the US. Seattle, the University of Washington to pursue the answer. Luckily again, I received so many encouragements, support, and help in those two years in Seattle. I get to know a lot of people in the UX, and some friends working in the industry. These people and experience helped me finally made a decision to be a UX designer. In the two years in Seattle, I participated in the DRG (Directed Research Group) in the HCDE (Human-Centered Design Engineering) department, and met both friends and UX professionals. I also did my second and third UX internships which helped me transfer what I learned in solving real design problems. During these academic and professional experiences, I found I'm really interested in talking to users, quickly drawing on a whiteboard to generate solutions, creating a delightful design to engage the user with the product. I want to be a creative, open-minded, and collaborative designer, this is the most important decision I made in my life so far.
As I completed the master's degree in UW, I got a scholarship and went to Boston to officially start my learning in HFID (Human Factor in Information Design) at Bentley University.
Now I'm a UX designer working in the largest IIOT global tech company. I want to say thank you to that young girl in her 20's, with all self-doubt, challenges, and struggles, she has not stopped in chasing her dream, and always working so hard to make her dream into reality.
The dream is real.
