United States

UX Design

UI/ Visual Design

Branding and Identity Design

Product Design

UX Testing

UX Research

Master of Science - MS

Bachelor's degree

Vicki Chen

Senior Product Designer

Portfolio

Communication

Collaboration

Problem-solving

Time management

Empathy

Team player

Organisation skills

Presentation skills

Stakeholder management

Accessibility

Asana

Figma

Jira

Adobe Creative Suite

Linear

ChatGPT

UserTesting

Chatbot

Design systems

User research

Usability Testing

Typography

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

General mentorship

Making remote and globally distributed teams work for you and your needs.

Working remotely

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

Managing burnout

Talk to people who have learned to manage their imposter syndrome.

Dealing with imposter syndrome

Navigating micro-aggression, getting paid what you are worth and finding a community.

Being a woman in tech

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 ask for a promotion and negotiate for salary raise?

Negotiating a job offer

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

Talk to people who've broken into the tech industry and learn their stories.

Breaking into tech

Learn the best ways to answer technical interview questions with frameworks

Acing technical interview questions

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

Fostering a good team culture

Steps to building and maintaining a strong, cohesive and effective team.

Building an effective team

Decision making as a software engineer or lead - how to become better at making the right choices

Making better tech choices

Best practices for running productive design critiques.

Running effective design critiques

How to define and execute a successful launch and managing stakeholders expectations. (eg. MVP)

Launching new products or features

Methods of prototyping and solution validation. When to use which kind of prototype (eg. Webflow, Notion, etc)

Prototyping methods and tips

Identify and define potential product problems and generating possible solutions.

Identifying problems vs solutions

Learn how to properly present your work and share ideas and opinions.

Presenting your work with impact

Tips on how to work and collaborate with designers.

Working with designers

Methods and models of exploring, deciding and delivering design.

Building a design process

Managing being the only designer at your company and working with non-designers.

Being the only designer

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

Conducting good user research

Ways and resources to improve your design skills.

Improving design skills

Led design initiatives on crypto payouts, payment flows, network CRM, Client dashboard analytics, AI and more.

- Refined visual identity and developed prototypes for mobile and web products
- Applied user experience improvements across desktop, tablet and mobile devices 
- Successfully managed a broad spectrum of design projects for clients across various industries

leverage apple watch engineering to integrate medical data including heart rate, ECG, and patient symptoms inside a doctor’s session to provide further clinical data for diagnostic assessment.
• Served as team's scrum master
• Designed iOS app prototype in Invision
• Designed Web application prototype in HTML, CSS, & JS
• Developed iOS application in Swift

Providing innovative technology solutions that deliver a superior guest service to world class shopping centers globally.

SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT
• Assisted IT infrastructure and digital team in software development and systems management
• Developed interface in Vue.js allowing easy access/modification of AWS parameter store 
• Created a tool to help with debugging CI in JavaScript environment
• Implemented new functions for a multi-channel chatbot server

PROJECT ACHIEVEMENTS
• Conducted extensive data analysis on trends and consumer behavior
• Delivered technical integrations which will boost user engagement
• Drafted project baseline targeted to tackle multiple problems 
• Designed iPhone app prototype in sketch & invision

Tools used: Travis CI, Docker, Chef, Slack

- Independently managed the entire design process, from initial concept to final prototypes, delivering
high-quality, user-centered solutions on time and exceeding client expectations.
- Developed and implemented a comprehensive design system for multiple clients, fostering brand
consistency and design efficiency across all platforms.
- Conducted user research and A/B testing to inform design decisions for client projects. This resulted in a significant improvement in user satisfaction for the Client (60%).

Vicki Chen🇺🇸

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