United States

UX Design

UI/ Visual Design

Computer Science

Soo Yun Kim

Principal Designer

Public Speaking

Team player

Leadership

Figma

• Creating Ai experience
• Shaping the future of productivity and collaboration for Cisco workforce experiences by leading with design to deliver impactful outcomes with Cisco IT product teams
• Product Design direction across Cisco IT Design teams, overseeing project scope, quality, and delivery across multiple Intranet product teams
• Engaging with other Principal Designers across Cisco organizations, creating a conversation around leading large-scale projects and developing strategies for execution
• Leading design to create best-in-class experiences and agile ways of working across all Cisco IT

• Shaped intranet experiences for Cisco employees’ productivity and engagement on worldwide scale by leading and aligning design teams across Intranet domains
• Led the Intranet vision and product design team alignment implementing and contributing to the Cisco Internal Design System

• Led Mobile UX Design for Google Drive on Android, iOS, and desktop, designing for over a billion users, with over 6.3M ratings, 4.8+ star rating, Rank #6 Productivity on Apple App Store
• Collaborated with Engineering leads, PMs, and 70 engineers to deliver impactful features
• Successfully launched key features, including Drag & Drop, Android larger screen widgets, iOS16 Lock screen, and iOS Dark Mode: now used in over 40% of Google Drive iOS sessions

• Worked with VPs across the CIO to identify, prioritize, and support projects
• Led the mobile UX strategy for the CIO, and acting as the trusted partner, innovator, and advocate for all mobile applications
• Set and led the design strategy and direction of mobile and responsive web apps for the 2200+ CIO application portfolio
• Ensured craft, quality, usability, and usefulness of future employee-facing mobile experiences by elevating mobile design skills in the organization
• University Relations Committee: With ongoing partnerships with multiple universities, hosting and organizing various events with them. Encouraging peers to expand their external eminence, building leadership skills, and improving presentation skills by leading Enterprise Design Thinking Workshops, portfolio reviews, and presentations

Guest Lecture on Prototyping with Animations to design students

Taught UI Design Certificate Program as a guest lecturer

• Led design for multiple internal mobile projects involving human-centered design, and supported 350,000 IBM employees across the world
• Led a team of UX and visual designers, and overseeing project scope, team process, design direction, and delivery

Adobe Creative Ambassador is an invitation-only program. I was appointed as a Creative Ambassador at IBM (only 15 people in the US) and featured as an exclusive enterprise customer at Adobe MAX in recognition of efforts in evangelizing Adobe’s tools to IBM employees.

As part of a strong partnership with Adobe, I lead numerous design workshops and sessions to educate IBM designers and developers with the new Adobe tools and features for increasing their skills and implementing them for our IBM products. 
• Adobe Creative Workshop series, 2019-2022 
• World Interaction Design Day workshop - a global event with IBM, Adobe & IxDA, 2019 
• Adobe Fresco Demo, 2019 
• Adobe Creative Jam, 2018 
• Adobe San Francisco Visits, 2018 
• Presentation “Voice of CIO Design” at Adobe’s San Francisco office, 2018

• Created modern, visually engaging, and innovative mobile products
• Designed based on requirements and user data; delivering concepts to demonstrate potential solutions
• Iteratively improved design concepts and prototypes based on team and user feedback
• Ensured that a consistent design language is applied across the product
• Defined UI patterns that unify, improve, and elevate the user experience of our native applications across multiple products and platforms
• Maintained a user-centered approach in design perspective and practice
• Worked on a community-oriented design team that encourages learning and professional growth
• Worked closely with development agile teams by delivering production-ready assets, visual specifications, and providing support through implementation

• Created all branding identities and design system for Mibblio Inc. and website: mibblio.com
• Worked directly with founders, CTO, and marketing directors and created pitch decks for investors

• Triller is Music Video Maker App has more than 300 million installs, #1 on the App Store in over 50 countries with celebrities like BTS, Alicia Keys, Cardi B, Marshmello, Roddy Ricch and Eminem
• Hit #1 on App Store and selected "Best Apps of 2015 and 2016"
• As one of the founding members & Lead designer, launched Triller iOS and Android Apps, iMessage App, Social network, Apple Watch, and Apple TV
• Contributed ideas, architecture, UI/UX, server-side development, process, and tools
• Created mobile experiences for a variety of demographics and featured that satisfy user needs with simplicity, consistency, and robustness

• Emmy Awards: Outstanding Creative Achievement - UX & Visual Design, 2013 - Nick App
• Lead designer of My Nick jr. programmable TV Channel on Verizon FiOS
• Launched Nick Jr. app and created visual design concepts & mockups and wireframes
• Designed creative digital solutions including website and multiple mobile applications for Nickelodeon
• Art directed and collaborated with third-party vendor for NickJr. Birthday Club

• Designed CBT and LMS interfaces for web & mobile applications
Clients: Chanel, Cortefiel, Destination Maternity, J.Crew, Juicy Couture and Samsonite
• Designed a website and mobile applications of multimediaplus.com and QuizScore.com
• Designed poster, facilitator guidebooks, and role play cards for various clients of Multimedia Plus
• Designed web application, banner, email blasts, sales presentations, panel, business card, brochure for Multimedia Plus and NRF Annual 2013 Show

Researched and assisted in the design of various applications

• Graduate Assistant at Industrial Design Department, September - December 2011
• Designed and layout of exhibition materials, labels, and posters
• Identified and created a map of all digital works and physical objects for the exhibition
• Installed exhibition of work and assist with preparation of galleries and pedestals
• Created movies using still images and created a portfolio website for graduate students

Motion Design Teaching Assistant, March – May 2011
• Instructed graduate students in areas of motion design
• Prepared software tutorials and assisted the professor with assignment reviews

Redesigned of b2b materials and advertising for USA Today’s sales reps clients

• Designed 3rd quarter Dora newsletters for distribution to all Nickelodeon international channels
• Designed 2010 Holiday e-card for distribution to various MTVNI divisions 
• Maintained MTVNI IPS graphics and images b2b website
• Assisted in the design of marketing materials including booklets, e-blasts and signage

UX Art Director / AR Designer
eBricks (Seoul, South Korea) 
January 2015-August 2016
• Bricks AR-Augmented Reality ABC Card iOS & Android App Design
• Bricks Reading Time E-books for websites, programs and Apps
• Packaging Design 

UI/UX Designer
Client: Coach, Godiva, and Michael Kors
Multimedia Plus (New York)
June 2013 - August 2013
• Researched and created sitemap and wireframes, and designed CBT(Computer Based Training program) interface for desktop and mobile applications for Coach and Godiva
• Designed sales presentation, login pages and landing pages of CBT for Michael Kors

UI Designer
Client: The Weather Channel
Makable LLC, formerly POKE (New York)
May 2013
• Created a concept moodboard for The Weather Channel app

Web Cartoonist
MapleStory Game Play Forum
2006 (Seoul, South Korea)
• Drew online cartoons about MapleStory Game

Soo Yun Kim🇺🇸