Yiyuan(Amber) Zhang
San Jose, CA
ac2b6y@r.postjobfree.com
http://amberzhang.herokuapp.com/
EDUCATION
UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH, Pittsburgh, PA
2015.09-2017.04
Master of Information Science
BEIJING TECHNOLOGY AND BUSINESS UNIVERSITY, China
2011.09-2015.06
Bachelor of Management in School of Computer and Information Engineering, Major in Information Management
UX METHODS
Research: Interview, Heuristic analysis, Persona, Scenario, Storyboarding, Comparative analysis
Interaction Design: Information architecture, User flows, Wireframing, Low/High-fidelity prototyping, Usability testing, Srotytelling
TOOLS & LANGUAGE
Sketch, Balsamiq, Principle, Illustrator, Zeplin, Omnigraffle, HTML5, CSS3
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
UX REDESIGN: Restaurant Order System - Tong’s Cuisine
2017.03-04
Used old system for 3 months and summarized all issues during working process, also interviewed waiters to get their pain points.
Sketched prototype, used Heuristic Evaluation to get feedback from users, and evaluated these questions to adjust the design.
Improved working efficiency of waiters by taking more orders in rush hour.
UX Designer & Front-end Developer - Beijing Saydo Technology Co., Ltd
2016.05-08
Telephone interviewed users in 10 provinces within China to elicit requirements, brainstormed with team to develop solutions.
Offered valuable ideas in the group meetings, wrote storyboard based on initial requirements for subsystem.
Worked with market department to integrate business requirements with findings into user interface.
Worked in an agile development environment and cooperated with visual designer and developers to conduct project from requirement to complete.
Used CSS3, HTML5, JavaScript to build personal system pages.
PROJECTS
UI/UX DESIGN: Plant Assistant App
2017.05-06
Designed online questionnaire for 11 target users, summarized pain points by analyzing feedback data and created information architecture.
Build prototype to represent user interface and made user test with clickable prototype to refine interaction design.
Created low-fidelity mockup, used sketch to finish final UI design.
UX DESIGN: Animal Friends Shelter App
2017.01-02
Interviewed director and volunteers, teased out important characteristics of users, their environment, and work tasks to drive an intuitive experience.
Developed persona, user journey to articulate solution experience.
Concluded and selected solutions for pain points, sketched prototype to do user test of design and new features.
Evaluated user interface with end user to refine UI design.