Yang G.

UX Designer

Figma

Usability Testing

User Interface Design

User-Centered Design

Design Thinking

User Flows

Heuristic Evaluation

UI/UX Design

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Product UI Designer | UX/UI Expert

With a robust educational background in media and design, including a Master's degree in Graphic Moving Image from the University of the Arts London and an MFA in Media Arts from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, I have cultivated a diverse skill set in user interface and experience design. Currently, I serve as a Product User Interface Designer at The Canadian Real Estate Association, where I focus on creating seamless and intuitive user experiences. Previously, I was a Web Design Instructor at NSCAD University, earning high praise for my comprehensive, user-centered design curriculum. My experience also includes roles as a UX/UI Designer at Officetrax and an Interdisciplinary Designer at WeUsThem Inc., where I specialized in both digital and print design. Additionally, I have contributed as a Teaching and Research Assistant at NSCAD University, focusing on augmented reality and animation projects.

Projects

Maritime SPOR SUPPORT Unit - Elevating Gov Health Research Online Presence

The Maritime SPOR SUPPORT Unit (MSSU) is a government health organization dedicated to patient-centric and research-driven initiatives. In our collaborative effort, our team devised three distinct design solutions and worked closely with our engineering counterparts to tackle the intricate content models integrated into the site's information structure.See More

Revealing untold stories - The National Association of Black Journalists

The old site of NABJ needs a fresh look and highlighting the main content types on the home page to help the target audiences find valuable resources effectively. At the same time, the archived content needs to be well-organized and documented. In my role as the principal designer for this project, I conceptualized a full-screen navigation page featuring a global search function at the top, ensuring seamless functionality on both desktop and mobile devices. See More

BetterSleep App - Design for Users Retention

This meditation app is designed to help people live a better life through daily meditation practice. In the past 12 years, it has improved thousands of users’ well-being worldwide. 55% of our users do not play the meditation after clicking on it and so we want to solve this problem by allowing them faster access to playing the content and increase the retention. User goals: Access content faster Easily access content information and be able to customize playback options in the player A more user-friendly and pleasant player to useSee More

Work History

Product User Interface Designer

The Canadian Real Estate Association | L'Association canadienne de l'immobilierJan 2024 - Present • 8 mosResponsible for designing user interfaces for real estate-related products, ensuring a seamless and intuitive user experience.

Web Design Instructor

NSCAD UniversityMar 2023 - Present • 1 yr 6 mosDeveloped comprehensive user-centered design pedagogy content for the design course, overseeing ideation to execution. Created an engaging curriculum covering user persona building, user journey mapping, information architecture, wireframing, and principles of color and typography in UX/UI design. Achieved positive feedback in the spring session with a commendable 4.5/5 score.

User Experience & User Interface Designer

OfficetraxJul 2020 - Jul 2023 • 3 yrs 1 moCreate, update, and maintain design system components. Conduct user-centered research activities such as competitive analysis, persona building, user journey mapping, and product testing. Design UI/UX for software products, from low-fidelity to high-fidelity. Collaborate closely with the QA team, product managers, engineers, and developers to deliver high-quality, user-centered products. Customize digital product branding to meet individual client needs, ensuring brand guidelines are followed while creating unique designs.

Interdisciplinary Designer

WeUsThem Inc.Jun 2019 - Jun 2020 • 1 yr 1 moUI and UX design for websites and mobile apps. Marketing graphic design both for printing and digital. Motion graphic design.

Teaching Assistant & Research Assistant

NSCAD UniversitySep 2017 - Apr 2019 • 1 yr 8 mosTA: Presenting workshops in different media arts courses (Maya and After Effects) and assisting students and teachers. RA: Augmented Reality Animation & Computer Vision Project - Prototyping animations for proof of concept.

Education

University of the Arts London

Master's degree, MA Graphic Moving Image2014

Nova Scotia College of Art and Design

Master of Fine Arts - MFA, Media arts2017 - 2019

Jiangsu University

Bachelor's degree, Media Design2009 - 2013

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