PROJECT EXPERIENCE
- Acted as the UX designer in the team to apply graphics, human factors and inter- action design ideas on the web application.
- Conducted Interviews, built persons and scenarios to identify customer require- ment, built Hi-Fi prototypes for the product
- Analyzed and visualized data extracted from social media websites UI DESIGNER/FRONT-END DEVELOPER 12/2014 – 12/2015
- ITHAKA&Entrega Project, Multidisciplinary Design Project
- Designed survey to target users of the website to improve the content quality and public image of Inside-Southwest Detroit community
- Built grapphic comparative analysis map to help Inside-Southwest to clarify their goal and motivation
- Overhauled Inside-Southwest Web site to optimize the user experience by con- ducting User Testing on current version of website. UX RESEARCHER 02/2015 - 03/2015
- Inside-Southwest Detroit Website
- Planned and conducted user research through interviews with YouTube users
- Created an Interaction Map to indicate the work flow of YouTube Comment func- tion
- Conducted Heuristic Evaluation to identify usability problems in the user inter- face (UI) design
UX RESEARCHER 01/2015 - 06/2015
- YouTube Inc Company, Academic Project
INTERNSHIP EXPERIENCE
- Designed UI, icon sets and logos for clients based on research to target users.
- Established UX design as the first stage of “RouteOne” Website develop- ments, instituting a User-Centered Design (UCD) approach.
- Used front-end frames, such as Django, to work with back-end developers to build three dynamic websites
- Worked with Dev & Test to implement interaction in product code UI DESIGNER/FRONT END DEVELOPER 06/2015 – 09/2015
- Entrega Group Systems Company
- Defined feature and common experiences, using established as well as en- tirely new patterns and paradigms
- Created interactive Hi-Fi prototypes for demonstrating
- Conducted comparative analysis to investigate the advantages and disad- vantages of benchmarks
- Implemented a visual style consistent with the main design style of Prenovo
UX Designer & UX Developer 10 /2015 – 04/2016
- Prenovo
EDUCATION
Human Computer Interaction April 2016
Main Courses:
Interaction Design, Usability Evaluation & Needs,
Human Fundamental Behavior, Graphic Design,
Pervasive Interaction Design, Personal Informatics MS - University of Michigan
Digital Media Technology May 2014
Main Courses:
3D Modelling, Video Editing, Visual Design, Web
Development, Digital Signal Processing
BS - Beijing University of Post
and Telecommunication
SOFTWARE
SKILLS
HTML5/CSS3
JavaScript
Python
R/Matlab
PROGRAMMING
Wireframing
Prototyping
Usability Test
Persona
Storyboarding
UX/DESIGN
Fangwen Zhao
UI & UX Designer www.fangwenzhao.com
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San Francisco, California