Mengyuan Tu, Designer in Seattle, WA, United States
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Mengyuan Tu

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Location
Seattle, WA, United States
Toptal Member Since
September 7, 2021

Mengyuan (M.Y.) is a product designer who thrives in fast-paced and collaborative environments. She has experience working with big corporations, startups, and consulting companies. She has led design for virtual event startup Run The World, launched a zero-to-one product in the wellness space for a smart display at Google, designed online learning experiences for students and enterprises at Udacity, and created social gaming experiences across PC, mobile, and TV at Microsoft Xbox.

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Portfolio

Work Experience

Senior Interaction Designer

2021 - PRESENT
IDEO
  • Designed immersive digital experiences, created new retail concepts, and built new product categories for various clients.
  • Created positive impact and delivered scalable and feasible solutions for several world-leading brands through human-centric design.
  • Facilitated various engagement sessions with teams of user researchers, industry experts, designers, and client members, both online and offline.
Technologies: Adobe After Effects, Figma, Midjourney, Webflow

Product Management and Design Lead

2020 - 2021
Run The World
  • Designed and managed the whole host experience from onboarding to event creation.
  • Owned end-to-end product development processes such as goal setting, research, design, development, and QA.
  • Managed user research and UX copy process for remote teams.
Technologies: Figma, Webflow, Adobe After Effects, Product Design, UX Design, UI Design, User Flows, UX Wireframes, Interactive Prototypes, Design Strategy, UX Research

Interaction Designer

2018 - 2020
Google
  • Designed Google Nest Hub 2 for sleep tracking and sleep coaching from 0-1 as a lead designer with four teams from Google Health, Google Home, Google Assistant, and Google Fit.
  • Launched Google Currents, a brand new employee engagement and knowledge-sharing platform as part of Google Workspace.
  • Did several 20% projects with Verily, Google Kernal Program and Health R&I on medical devices and open source apps.
Technologies: Sketch, Adobe After Effects, Figma

Product Designer

2017 - 2018
Udacity
  • Designed a series of web and mobile tools to make Udacity a platform at scale.
  • Conducted end-to-end processes from user research, interaction, and visual design to prototyping for customer-facing products and internal tools to enhance the online learning experience.
  • Defined, designed, and documented new UI components for Udacity's design system with design system engineers and designers.
Technologies: Sketch, Adobe After Effects

Designer

2014 - 2017
Microsoft
  • Designed social gaming experience for Xbox Live across mobile, PC, and console platforms; obtained seven design patents.
  • Led several core-released projects on enhancing multiplayer gaming and content consumption to increase revenue.
  • Partnered closely with cross-functional team members such as designers, researchers, product managers, and developers at all process stages.
Technologies: Adobe Illustrator
2012 - 2013

Master's Degree in Engineering Design and Innovation

Northwestern University - Evanston, IL

2008 - 2012

Bachelor's Degree in Industrial Engineering

Tsignhua University - Beijing, China