Yvon Huang
Verified Expert in Design
Designer
Taipei, Taiwan
Toptal member since November 18, 2021
Yvon is a multidisciplinary UX designer with an industrial design background. She specializes in UX design and product strategy for consumer products. Yvon has over eight years of experience shaping digital products for industry-leading companies like Sketch, KKBOX, and Yahoo. She is also a passionate mentor on Designlab, Sofasoda platform, an MIT global entrepreneurship bootcamp pitch winner, and a Girls in Tech Taiwan 40 under 40 honorees in design.
Portfolio
Sketch | Design Collaboration SaaS
Uta Pass | Streaming Radio App
An Online Job Market
OLLA - Wellness Brand and eCommerce
Work Experience
UX Bootcamp Founder and Instructor
Self-Employed
- Designed the curriculum and the infrastructure of a UX bootcamp within two months.
- Launched three cohorts and got 60 students enrolled, 100+ applicants on the waiting list.
- Helped students connect with local startups doing collaborative projects.
UX Designer
Sketch
- Worked closely with the researcher to identify insights.
- Created multiple user flows in Miro to communicate with stakeholders.
- Involved in early planning discussion on various milestone projects with founders and the squad team.
- Created multiple internal documentation for team alignment.
- Planned UX strategy for a collaborative editing project.
Product Designer
An Online Job Board
- Led user experience design for the core marketplace platform.
- Improved the conversion rate by 20% by optimizing the matching workflow.
- Increased new user NPS by 20% by refining the onboarding experience.
- Worked closely with engineering, marketing, and product teams to strategize future user experience.
- Initiated a shareable UI system project to align brand consistency in cross-products.
UX/UI Designer
KKBOX
- Refined user sign-up experience for KKBOX iOS/iPad, Android/Tablet, UWP across six regions which decreased sign-up bounce rate by 15%.
- Designed KDDI, one of Japan's largest wireless carrier mobile radio service - Uta Pass-through market research, concept design, user testing which has been downloaded by 45 million mobile subscribers.
- Led the product strategy and UI/UX design for Japan market.
- Shipped brand new iOS and Android app versions in three months.
- Built the first Apple watch and feature phone version from scratch in a month.
- Initiated the KKBOX's design system project and created the documentation which reduced a lot of back and forth and increases 50% of work efficiency.
Interaction Design Intern
Yahoo!
- Developed a new deals marketplace app with a cross-functional scrum team in an agile development process.
- Won first place in internship competition among 80 attendees, 10+ teams.
- Created presentation video for stakeholder meeting.
Education
Bachelor's Degree in Industrial and Product Design
Shih Chien University - Taiwan
Certifications
Food Value Chain Fellow
YSI - Young Sustainable Impact
Beyond the Food Class Fellow
MIT Entrepreneurship Bootcamp
Skills
Tools
Sketch, Slack, Zoom, Maze, Miro, Apple Keynote, Zeplin, InVision, Adobe Experience Design (XD), Adobe Creative Suite
Platforms
iOS, Android, Web, Dovetail, MacOS, Adobe Suite, Figma
Languages
CSS
Other
UX Design, UX Audits, Notion, Product Design, Design Thinking, Wireframing, Information Architecture (IA), User Flows, Heuristic Evaluation, Concept Development, User Journey Maps, UX Flows, On-demand, SaaS Design, Design Strategy, Mobile UX, Websites, eCommerce, Mentorship, User Onboarding, Collaborative Design, UI Design, Mobile Design, Design Consultation, Mobile UI, Web UX, Learning, Edtech Design, Entrepreneurship, User Interface (UI), Quantitative User Research, Remote User Testing, Remote Usability Testing, Marketing Analytics, Journey Mapping, Research, User Personas, Prototyping, UX Strategy, Web UX Design, Branding, User Journeys, Mobile App UI, App UX, Venture Design, Pitch Decks, Mobile UX Design, User Experience (UX), Landing Page Design, App UI, Optimization, Iconography, First-run Experience (FRE), UI Style Guides, Style Guides, Healthcare IT, Open Source, Tools, Cross-functional Collaboration, Remote Work, Music Players, Audio Streaming, Song Lyrics, Japan, Subscriptions, Scrum, Feature Phones, Radio, Blockchain, Decentralization, Brand Design, Logotype, Web Illustration, Wellness, Women's Health, Fast Food, Food Ordering, Programming, Marketplaces, Matching Systems, Freelancing, Coding, Pair Programming, Jobs, Development, Live Chat, Design Systems, Community, Cloud, Design Collaboration, Version Control, Interactive UX, Research Synthesis, UX Thinking
Experience
- User Flows - 7 years
- UX Design - 7 years
- Quantitative User Research - 6 years
- Wireframing - 6 years
- Heuristic Evaluation - 5 years
- Remote Usability Testing - 5 years
- Concept Development - 5 years
- Information Architecture (IA) - 5 years
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