User Interface Designer Resume

Title
User Interface Designer

Primary Skills
Web / Graphic / Flash Animation Design / User Interface / Interaction

Location
US-CA-San Francisco

Posted
Jan-09-09


OBJECTIVE
A creative designer position that focuses on creating innovative solutions to improve communication, usability, interaction and user experience.

SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS
- Professional designer with 9 years of hands-on experience for over 50 Web and UI design projects
- Highly organized project manager and team member with excellent communication skills and profound understanding of the whole production cycle
- Known for taking vague project ideas to reality and fruition using design skills together with creativity and imagination

SKILLS AND EXPERTISE

- Visual and interaction design
- Flash animation and drawing skills
- Information architecture and navigation design
- Usability testing and design research
- Rapid Flash and Photoshop prototyping
- Color, typography, logo, and print design
- Project planning and management
- Initiating and presenting ideas
- Translating project requirements into visual mock-ups
- Coding: HTML, CSS, Flash Action script
- Familiar with Web development environment
- Fluent in English and Chinese, and Multicultural understanding in American and Chinese culture

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
FAIR ISAAC CORP., San Rafael, CA 05/2006 - 11/2008
User Interface Designer
Ensured the user-friendly look-and-feel for myFICO.com websites and products. Also helped to build trusty and professional branding for FICO score, which has been sold to over 10 million U.S. consumers.
- Conducted usability/accessibility research to improve user experience for millions of myFICO users
- Created mock-ups and specifications to help communicating design ideas efficiently within the team
- Designed the user interface for an education portal in order to help general public learn how to make smart credit decisions
- Redesigned the user interface and information architecture for FICO credit report to make it easier to read and understand; therefore reduces user confusion and customer support
- Helped building FICO brand among competitors, and increasing market visibility and lead flow by creating landing pages, banner ads, email campaigns, FLASH educational game and animations, etc
- Worked in a cross-functional team environment using .Net, Ajax, DHTML and other web technologies

MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY, East Lansing, MI 01/2007 - present
User Interface and Flash Design Consultant
Periodic consulting work for Flash games and web applications
- Helping brainstorming and prototyping brain exercise game ideas into reality
- Bringing artistic design skills and insights to help make game interface fun, intuitive plus stylish
- Introducing user-friendly and modern design styles into technical web applications to improve user experience and efficiency.

VOLUNTEERMATCH.ORG, San Francisco, CA 02/2006 - 05/2006
Web and Graphic Designer, contractor
- Designed a full-color, 28 page annual report to help promoting this non-profit organization fundraising and improving public image, as well as delivered cost savings by doing quality design jobs in-house
- Reduced user confusion by redesigning and simplifying web interfaces and functions

MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY, East Lansing, MI 10/2003 - 02/2006
Web and Flash Designer, Communication Technology Lab (08/2004 - 02/2006)
- Contributed design skills to multiple educational and healthcare projects, including an interactive Flash animation to help low literate parents learn how to take care of their children at home, and a communication/education website to help the breast cancer research center easily approaching their target audience of 14 to 40 year old girls and women
- Created a fresh visual identity for the Digital Media Art and Technology program, including a new logo, website, and posters, to help promoting the program and recruiting more graduate students

Graphic and User Interface Designer, Institute of Water Research (10/2003 - 06/2005)
- Conceived and implemented simple, clean, and user-centered design for multiple websites, including National Park Service system

Project Developer for online courses, Virtual University (05/2004- 08/2004)
- Contributed graphic design and CSS coding skills to help course instructors build online courses

BMIASIA INC., ShangHai, China 05/2002 - 07/2003
Senior User Interface Designer
- Created a stylish and friendly user interface and navigation system for the company's major product, a web-based business management system, which efficiently helped the company win long term contracts from two leading telecommunication service providers of China
- Ensured the unified look and feel of the whole system by defining comprehensive UI design specifications and common components

CHINASKY TECHNOLOGY INC., ShenZhen, China 10/1999 - 04/2002
Senior Web Designer, Manager of Web Design Department
- Conceived and designed web layouts, information architecture and navigation system for over 30 diverse projects, including commercial, educational, e-commerce and government websites
- Promoted to manage the design team in a year with great reputation of efficiency, leadership and communication skills within the team as well as from direct interactivities with clients
- Developed practical and effective regulations and workflows to improve the team efficiency
- Created open communication among the team to build a healthy working environment

OTHER RELATED EXPERIENCE
Photoshop Teacher, 1998, TIANRUN TECHNOLOGY SCHOOL, Qing Huangdao, China
Taught a class of 26 adult students, age range from 24 to 45, with proficiency in communication and people skills. Created classroom objectives and lesson plans, as well as an open and interactive class environment that helped students become familiar and efficient with Adobe Photoshop 5.0 in four weeks

3D Animation Designer, 1998, Redman Design Studio, Qing Huangdao, China
Created a two-minute 3D animation in 3D Studio MAX 1.0, including modeling, material design and animation control, to promote a local high-tech company


EDUCATION
Master of Arts in Digital Media Art and Technology, 2005
MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY

Bachelor of Science in Computer Science, 1999
NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY OF CHINA

Certifications
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