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Designer
Location
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.
Work Experience
UX Bootcamp Founder and Instructor
2021 - PRESENT
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.
Technologies: Figma, Notion, UX Thinking
UX Designer
2019 - 2021
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.
Technologies: Sketch, Notion, Slack, Miro, Maze, Dovetail, UX Design, User Flows, Journey Mapping, Research, Concept Development, User Personas, Prototyping, UX Strategy, Wireframing, User Interface (UI), Information Architecture (IA), Quantitative User Research, Remote Usability Testing, Heuristic Evaluation, Interactive UX, Collaborative Design, UI Design
Product Designer
2017 - 2018
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.
Technologies: Sketch, Zeplin, Web UX Design, Research, Branding, User Flows, User Journeys, UX Design, Wireframing, User Interface (UI), Information Architecture (IA), Quantitative User Research, Remote Usability Testing, Heuristic Evaluation, Concept Development, Interactive UX, Collaborative Design, UI Design
UX/UI Designer
2015 - 2017
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.
Technologies: Sketch, InVision, Mobile App UI, App UX, User Flows, Wireframing, Prototyping, Research, Quantitative User Research, UX Design, User Interface (UI), Information Architecture (IA), Remote Usability Testing, Heuristic Evaluation, Interactive UX, Collaborative Design, UI Design
Interaction Design Intern
2014 - 2015
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.
Technologies: Sketch, InVision, Wireframing, UX Design, User Interface (UI), Information Architecture (IA), User Flows, Interactive UX, Collaborative Design, UI Design
Education
2011 - 2015
Bachelor's Degree in Industrial and Product Design
Shih Chien University - Taiwan
Certifications
AUGUST 2019 - PRESENT
Food Value Chain Fellow
YSI - Young Sustainable Impact
OCTOBER 2017 - PRESENT
Beyond the Food Class Fellow
MIT Entrepreneurship Bootcamp
Experience
Collaboration That Works
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