Current Salary
$31,800 HKD
Expected Salary
$28,000 - $33,000 HKD
Education
School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Bachelor of Fine Arts in Architecture, Interior Architecture, and Designed Objects
Aug 2019 - May 2023
Organizations and Leaderships
The Design Studio Co-Founder, Merchandise Club President, N.O.M.A.S, Coding Club, HAAAPI, Orientation Leader.
Relevant Courses
Design Methods and Motivations, Design Research Strategies, External Partnerships, Design Ideation/Illustration, Design Cultures, Model To Object, Research Studio, Architectural Illustration, Interior Architecture Studio, Interior Architecture Capstone, Advanced Virtual Reality
Work Experience
Freelance Design
Media Content Identity Designer
May 2025 - July 2025
- Worked with Media Editor to design and deliver a media content brand identity for digital platform content viewing use, including logo, thumbnail, banner, icons, watermarks, typography, and color identity.
- Worked with Cargo News team to design and deliver a brand identity for digital platform use, including logo, icons, typography, and color identity.
Hestia Technology Limited
Lead Designer
August 2023 - May 2025
- Collaborated with the CTO to develop four CAD sets of core part fixtures for the v6 flagship product using SolidEdge, enhancing the manual assembly process. Prototyped with 3D printing and manufactured high-fidelity models in stainless steel, improving assembly production speed by 4 hours per unit.
- Created a tolerance rubric for the R&D team to streamline 3D printing prototypes for fixtures, molds, and finalized components, reducing tolerance errors and improving workload efficiency.
- Partnered with the CTO to produce a 1:64 CAD floor plan of the factory, reorganizing worker movement and the assembly line, resulting in a 15% increase in total assembly efficiency.
- Independently designed the user interface and experience for the v6 flagship product lineup. Collaborated with the lead software engineer to ensure development readiness one quarter before the product launch, allowing time for bug fixes and visual/user experience improvements.
- Contributed to the front-end development of the flagship product, including Chef’s Mode, using HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and the Vue.js framework.
- Led the design of the machine management system's user interface and experience, working with the UI/UX design team to develop wireframes, low-fidelity and high-fidelity mockups, and prototypes.
- Directed the UI/UX design team in creating a new visual identity system for all interface designs, including aesthetics, iconography, buttons, inputs, color usage, and fonts.
- Collaborated with the customer success team to conduct user research and A/B testing with clients.
- Led the visual communications team in developing four sets of posters, brochures, and leaflets for JMA, Fooma, and NRA roadshows.
- Produced over 1200 photorealistic product renders for the v4 to v6 product lineup, supporting the advertisement team, customer success team, visual communications team, and upper management during investment meetings.
- Collaborated with software engineering team, and mechanical engineering team to develop an annual, and quarterly roadmap and task list for all team members across each department.
- Worked with COO and CTO to draft and maintained a product requirements documents for all v6 products.
- Collaborated with CTO and Principal Engineer to draft and maintain 5 product requirements documents and 5 technical specifications documents, ensuring alignment with strategic goals.
- Coordinated with Project Managers to allocate resources effectively, enabling team members to meet design requirements and execute tasks efficiently.
- Led weekly scrums with software and mechanical engineering teams, organized biweekly product backlogs, ensured timely completion of tasks, and prioritize feature implementations and improve overall user experience
- Conducted market research to gather quantitative product data and analyze customer feedback, contributing to data-driven decision making.
- Independently designed full wireframes, layouts, design systems, and interactive prototypes for 5 automated kitchen products user interfaces.
- Tailored user interface and experience design to English, Spanish, Chinese, and Japanese markets, delivering over 200 unique frames per product and language.
- Developed and implemented UX systems that directly contributed to a 400% increase in sales, with an average of $100K per unit sold.
- Collaborated closely with the CTO and Chairman to develop internal company iconography systems.
- Designed full company rebranding, including the design of the website, career page, and marketing materials for both US and Japan markets.
- Produced over 700 high-fidelity renderings of all products for marketing and branding purposes.
Swiftlet
UIUX Designer
December 2022 - August 2023
- Co-founded a Startup, Swiftlet.io. A U.S and Canada based web service product for student subleasing needs, and study abroad savings program.
- Designed an entire User Flow and User Experience, managed project development, Branding Campaign, and launched working MVP in market.
- Accepted into Microsoft For Startups Founders Hub with $150k Azure Credits funds for Generative AI development and accelerated growth.
- Awarded full access to Microsoft Founders Development Tools from partnerships with OpenAI, Bubble, CodeSee, LinkedIn, Stripe, Mercury, Miro, Drata, and more, total valued at $338.3k USD in accredit benefits.
School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Teaching Assistant for Virtual Reality
August 2022 - December 2022
- Independently instructed 15 Graduate students on VR and AR development using Unity XR and XCode.
- Provided weekly lesson plans detailing VR and AR development subjects from User Interface Design, Rigging, Animation, Lighting, .Net Coding with C#, Deployment, and Troubleshooting.
- Aided 2 Graduate students with building and deployment of VR experiences for the 2023 Spring SAIC MFA Gallery.
- Provided consultation services with graduate student to develop Augmented Reality App Development Company Omnia.io.
School of the Art Institute of Chicago
UIUX Designer
January 2022 - May 2022
- Engaged with clients on behalf of Homan Square Design Group with effective weekly meetings done remotely, and in-person. ⁃ Addressed client pain points and built full user flow through Figma, and Bubble that consolidates 4 different third party sites into one native site, including a separate task management tool for administration team, and workers.
C!ub
UIUX Designer
May 2021 - May 2022
- Conducted and analyzed 30 user interviews through social media and physical communication.
- Managed a team of 6 to design and deploy 2 Minimum Viable Products, with a finalized product viable for App Store and Google Play download.
- Lead discussions remotely with our back-end development team of 15 with daily updates and lead the team’s communication with project manager on development progress.
- Directly contributed towards gaining $350k investment capital from accelerant groups for 10% ownership equity.
- Lead rebranding campaign for Social Media, increasing engagement by 40%, account reach-outs by 100%, and followers by 20%.
- Awarded 2% of Company Shares for contributions towards the development and growth of company during Startup phase.
Skills and Interests
Software
Microsoft OS, Mac OS, Adobe Creative Suite, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Autodesk Fusion360, Autodesk AutoCAD, Rhinoceros 3D, Keyshot, V-Ray, Figma, Unity, Unreal Engine, Visual Studio, Blender, Procreate, Miro, XCode, Logic Pro, Solidedge
Skills
User Interface Design, Interactive Design, User Research, Experiential Design, Prototyping, Wireframing, Product Strategy, Product Management, Product Illustration, Product Visualization, 3D Visualization, 3D Modeling, CAD Modeling, Industrial Design, Molding, 3D Printing, Architectural Design, Drafting, Architectural Visualization, Interior Architecture, Virtual Environment Design, Virtual Reality Design, Augmented Reality Design, Game Development, Manufacturing Engineering, Java, Javascript, C#, HTML, CSS
Languages
English, Mandarin, Cantonese
Interests
Fine Arts, Culinary Arts, Architecture, Entrepreneurship, Mechanics, Travel, Diversity and Culture, Violin, Cinema