China

UX Design

Product Design

UX Research

Service Design Research

Business Transformation

Level 3

Credit

Level 4

Junyi Zhu

Senior design lead

Public Speaking

Product strategy

Collaboration

Problem-solving

Time management

Critical-thinking

Empathy

Organisation skills

Presentation skills

Conflict resolution

Leadership

Project management

Brand strategy

Event organisation

Market research

User research

ChatGPT

Figma

Introduce yourself, define mentoring expectations and goals. Learn and grow together.

General mentorship

Learn essential burnout prevention techniques and replenish physical and emotional energy.

Managing burnout

Strategies for maximizing your design internship or co-op program.

Getting the most out of my internship

Tips for transitioning into a new role or company.

Changing roles

How to think about design career paths and what progression looks like for designers?

Design career path

Get actionable feedback on your resume or portfolio.

Resume and portfolio review

Practice HR, technical and behavioural interviews with mentors.

Practice mock interviews

How to create a positive workplace culture that drives collaboration and productivity?

Fostering a good team culture

Manage team expectations and get the most out of your meetings.

Running effective meetings

Identify and define potential product problems and generating possible solutions.

Identifying problems vs solutions

How to work with team members with different skill sets but towards a common goal?

Working cross-functionally

Methods and models of exploring, deciding and delivering design.

Building a design process

Explore different generative and evaluative research techniques. User research synthesis and presentation.

Conducting good user research

Curios is a project I initiated to explore insight-driven innovation with purpose. Curios believes innovation becomes meaningful when it’s driven by people’s shared value, deep insight of reality and creativity.

We work alongside creative communities who are authentic, fun and exceptionally devoted to their craft.
Together, we focus on fields with the potential to create positive social impact. We uncover moments that align people toward a shared purpose, offer strategies that are grounded and actionable, and grow together with our partners and clients here in China market

We believe that history and culture form the quiet yet unshakable stage upon which all meaningful innovation unfolds. In every engagement, we seek to immerse ourselves in depth, not as background, but as catalysts, blending them with intent to uncover the pivot and pulse of true innovation.

We offer innovation and design consulting services, as well as produce original content that explores creative thinking.We are now doing works around F&B, social innovation, and the future of mobility.

Now I’m working on making outdoor experience better :)
Driving and driving the system that will orchestrate the product, marketing and business team, strategize the resource for different channels, to maximize the business results. 
- Design a new brand value proposition for company to be differentiated in the market, meanwhile boost the confidence from within.
- Design, orchestrate and land the ISPO Shanghai 2024 for with the new brand reproposition/image, product portfolio and experience of Mobi Garden.

Becoming a better creative leader nourished by IDEO human culture and excellence and lovely people of IDEO Shanghai. Probably become a better person.;)

Created a new blood testing experience 
Designed a new tea beverage 
Redefine the digital experience of luxury retail 

All powered by Human centered design & design thinking, coached by amazing IDEO leaders and supported by talented IDEO team

Work closely with PMs and designers to craft the product innovation strategy’s in Asia by leveraging a great variety of human-centered approaches

Enable Human-centered approaches in the organization with solid project designs, tool kits as well as the product and businesses stakeholders engagements

Work closely with Data scientists to manipulate big data to pave the foundational learnings of platform users so that businesses & products can shape targeted strategies 

Lower the cost of the research process by building the foundation of respondents repository and insight repository 

Collaborate across time zones to connect insights cross products

innovation leader & facilitator who is highly involved in the 0-1business model innovation
//Defining the new business strategy, facilitate the corporation transformation management to fit the strategy 
//Product and service innovation facilitation, by providing insights and analysis to help the team understand why behind customer behavior and host the workshops to facilitate the team to come up with new product concept and customer journey  

Resource development 
//Developed 15 new business partners (property development company and property management company), who contributed 10,435 new customer leads by which we generate 100 millions of revenue in 2020
//All the business partners we developed were top ones, including Long for, WanHua, Greentown, China Oversea, etc. 
//Funding raising (confidential)

Update the branding 
//Improve the image of home decor company by launching the campaign of Amazing Kitchen, which generate the 80,000 attentions, and was highly appreciated within the industry

Project leader and team management 
Key Innovation partner of The Coca-Cola Company
//Revamped staged-gate innovation process with agile innovation sprint featured user-centered design process for TCCC; according to the client, new process increased idea success rate by 30%, saving development time by 60%, and budget by $500K 
//Product and branding innovation of Minute Maid, Powerade, Chunyue
//Host the 2016 Innovation week of TCCC great China and Korea 
//Host the Project X (confidential), which is a highly strategic project

–	Fully responsible for managing the qualitative research projects to ensure all activities of projects are completed at high quality
–	Manage FMCG account including AB-inbev and L’Oreal 
–	Lead research, framework & scope, putting them together to tell story
–	Develop key insights and implications to answer the business questions
–	Proactively develop & maintain relationship with business partners
–	Provide on-going support to all level within the team

–	Key client contact and advises on projects from planning & design, constructing insights and report presentation
–	Functional expertise in Brand and Communication research, Consumer Usage & Attitude, Innovation and Product/Packaging test

Awards obtained at Synovate:
‘Best Presenter’ of 'Year 2010 Synovate China Lifewords Training'
‘Best moderator’ of ‘Year 2009 Synovate China Moderation Training’
‘Best project team’ of ‘Year 2009 Synovate China Moderation Training’ as the team leader

Junyi Zhu🇨🇳

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