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Xinran (Joy) Yao

Seattle,WA

Overview

1
1
year of professional experience

Work History

Creative Product Designer Internship

UDesign
Seattle, WA
09.2023 - 12.2023
  • Collaborated with a team of 4 to conduct a website redesign for UTERN, the University of Toronto's Environmental Resource Network
  • Crafted services insights and recommendations presentations with a focus on storytelling for executive teams
  • Produced and designed marketing communication materials including 10+ websites & landing pages, posters, logos, and social media posts
  • Established a design system with 60+ reusable components, enabling team members to speed up the prototyping process and maintain consistency

UX Designer Internship

Ping An OneConnect Technology
Shanghai, China
07.2023 - 08.2023
  • Transformed clear insights from the product manager and China Telecom into an implementable design interface system for customer service users
  • Owned the end-to-end design process, including user journey mapping, storyboards, user flows, prototypes of varying fidelity's, and mockups

Product Designer Internship

Indicator Lab
Toronto, Canada
04.2023 - 07.2023
  • Designed individual stock's root cause analysis system of risk management feature based on interviews with hedge fund analysts and day-traders
  • Led the internal design critique and external usability testing, leveraging the feedback to make design decisions that enhance the user experience
  • Presented milestone deliverables and communicated design rationale to stakeholders on a weekly basis, ensuring the design alignment with business goals and user needs

Product Designer Internship

Etcheve NFT Saas Platform
Toronto, Canada
11.2022 - 03.2023
  • Collaborated cross-functionally with executive stakeholders and engineers to translate insights into actionable recommendations to ensure high-quality implementation
  • Defined NFT event features (core features of the product) through interviews and illustrated user stories that support user needs and business goals
  • Restructured the information architecture reduced 30% of redundant functionality
  • Built a comprehensive design system of 100+ UI components

Education

Bachelor of Design - Double Major in Interaction Design, Informatics

University of Washington
Seattle, WA
06.2026

Bachelor of Architecture -

University of Toronto
Toronto, ON
06.2023

AAP Architecture Summer Program -

Cornell University
Ithaca, NY
08.2022

High School Diploma -

White Oaks Secondary High School
Toronto, ON, Canada
08-2022

Summer Program - Animation And Special Effects / Film Production

New York Film Academy
New York, NY
06-2020

Skills

User-Centered Design / Product Thinking / Wireframing / Information Architecture / Storyboarding / Prototype / Figma / Webflow / Adobe Creative Suite (Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign, After Effects) / Rhino/ Maya / Grasshopper / Powerpoint

Timeline

Creative Product Designer Internship

UDesign
09.2023 - 12.2023

UX Designer Internship

Ping An OneConnect Technology
07.2023 - 08.2023

Product Designer Internship

Indicator Lab
04.2023 - 07.2023

Product Designer Internship

Etcheve NFT Saas Platform
11.2022 - 03.2023

Bachelor of Design - Double Major in Interaction Design, Informatics

University of Washington

Bachelor of Architecture -

University of Toronto

AAP Architecture Summer Program -

Cornell University

High School Diploma -

White Oaks Secondary High School

Summer Program - Animation And Special Effects / Film Production

New York Film Academy

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