Leah Ryu

UI/UX Designer

Menlo Park, CA, US A

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www.leahryu.com

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Competences & Skills

Figma Adobe Creative Suites

Design systems UX Research

iOS/Android app, 500M+ downloads

UX / UI Design - 7 Years

XR/MR/AR/VR Product Design

3D tools

3D avatars, digital twins

Unity Keyshot

Spatial UX Design - 5 Years Product Management- 5 Years Teams Google workspace

Slack Linear Jira

In-car Infotainment / B2B, B2G

Experiences

Samsung Electronics

America

Senior UX designer

Feb 2023 -

As a senior UX designer at Samsung, Mountain View, CA I mainly work on eCommerce and check-out process. Working with PM/PO and a team lead, I’ve been working on implementing and improving the existing screens on web, iOS/AOS. Remorph Co., Ltd

Co-founder, Art Director

Apr 2021- Nov 2022

As a co-founder of remorph where it provides VR/XR technology for in-vehicle experiences, I have been working on 3d content design, UX/UI designs, user testings, researching, fund raising and team building. Worked for the projected for 6 months, we could launch the VR, MetaRise in autonomous vehicles in Korea, using Oculus Quest 2. Also I created proprietary RealMeta Engine and its core technology (Patent pending). KineMaster Inc.

Lead UX Designer,

Design PM

Apr 2020 - June 2021

As a lead design PM I was in charge of designing the KineMaster's video editor suites including 5 mobile apps(iOS, AOS) and 2 desktop(PC and mac) apps. We launched the apps globally with 17 different languages and reached over 200 million downloads with the MAU of over 50 million.

FluxPlanet Inc.

Product Manager

Feb 2019 - Feb2020

I was working on creating human avatars based on 3D/4D capture system. I worked on creating human faces (FACS / Blendshapes). Also AR avatars for fashion shows, Samsung’s mobile’s AR avatar projects as well as applications for merchandises. I used Marvelous Designer, Wrap3, Unreal. Content were presented to life-sized hologram display I designed . Raytheon Company

VR Director

Oct 2018- Jan 2019

I was working on developing a VR employee training program for dealers in Chevrolet, GM Korea as a lead manager. With the program I designed, the company could reduce training cost by 1/3.

JSC Games

VR Expert, Advisor

Oct - Nov 2018

Designing/ developing physical design of Head Mount Display product with dual functions

(VR/AR), aiming to enhance a mental health for single-person households. DoubleMe Inc.

Art Director

Mar 2017 - Aug 2018

Leading R&D project for Mixed Reality platform for Connected and Autonomous vehicles, designed Holographic Human Vehicle Interfaces(HHVI) for HoloDash(www. holodash.io) / Designing a new holographic MR display(HoloTube), UX/UI definitions, 3 HCI papers(UK,KR)

(0.9 million USD funded by IITP, Korea).

Hongik University

Visiting professor

Mar 2018 - July 2018

I have taught around 50 senior students in school of design convergence in HongIk University. Running approximately 12 team projects, as a lead instructor. Curriculums were about mixed reality and XR/AR products for our everyday lives such as in mobility, service industry and food industry.

SAP

Design Thinking Lead

Oct 2016 - Dec 2016

9 weeks intensive fellowship based in SAP's Design and Co-innovation Center in South Korea. I had Design thinking workshops/UX statistical workshops as a team leader and user- centered practices were conducted in collaboration with SAP's DCC in Palo Alto, US and Heidelberg and Berlin, Germany.

SZ Bubba Company

Founding designer

Feb 2016 - Sep 2018

Leading Product design in self-driving solutions for small H/W carriers such as baby trolley, carts, etc.(Client : BaoNeo).

Royal College of Art,

Imperial College London

Master of Art, Master of Science

2013-2016

I have got a double master’s degree at Royal College of Art, ranked the number one university for art and design internationally and Imperial College London, world ranking # 13, renowned for its engineering school. I majored in Innovation Design Engineering, focusing on Disruptive Market Innovation. During the course work my studies/projects were acknowledged/awarded by London mayor in 2014 Boris Johnson, also renowned companies such as Unilever and so on.

Hongik University

BA, Product Design

2007-2012

I studied Industrial Product Design in Hongik University, renowned as #1 in South Korea for its art, and design course. I got Merit Scholarship for 2 years . Education

Acknowledgement

London Mayor’s Low Carbon Entrepreneur Award, Finalist London June 2014 Reddot concept design award Singapore Oct 2012

iF Universal design award & Consumer favorite award Germany Feb 2013 Sports Innovation Exhibition, Toronto Design Museum, Canada July 2015 Publications

Holographic Information System,

The future of in-car experience?

HCI Korea, WASET UK, EVA London 2018

What designers can do for the reunification of

Korea? Royal College of Art, MA dissertation 2014

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