Hi! My name is Yuxiao. I am a visual and product designer dedicated to creating user-centric product experiences and engaging visuals for E-learnings.
About Me
UX and Content Design: Figma, Miro, Wireframe Prototyping, UX Research, Peer Design Critique
Instructional Design: Adobe XD, Articulate Storyline 360, Rise 360, Affinity Designer
Data Analytics: Excel, SQL, Tableaulg...see more
2Languages
Industry Served
IT & TechnologyMedia, Communications & Writing
Skillsets
sqlfigmaux designcontent creation
Experience
UI/UX Freelancer
Multiple Clients 15 Jun 2022 - Present a year San Francisco Bay Area
•Understand business goals of Law Firm of Attorney Peng and develop design solutions for a customer-facing sub-app;
•Create zero-to-one user experience from ideating to hi-fi prototyping using Figma
•Improved enrollment experience of Air-Reading platform by conducting usability testing, creating a design system, and
redesigning new interfaces and sign-up flows
•Audited existing UI, synthesized user insights, and designed hi-fi prototypes for Lynk&Co’s vehicle infotainment systemlg...see more
Content(Visual) Designer
Reforge 17 Jun 2021 - 16 Nov 2022 a year San Francisco Bay Area
•Co-owned the design, development, and success of Reforge’s Product, Engineering, and Marketing online courses
•Organized course content narratives, and created user-centric visuals leveraging a legacy design system and Figma
•Collaborated cross-functionally on UX research and contributed to a new design system for the Reforge rebrandlg...see more
Office Director
InGenius Prep 18 Jun 2020 - 20 May 2021 a year San Francisco Bay Area
•Partnered with SMEs, Built a scenario-based E-learning module using Figma, Affinity, and Articulate Storyline 360 for manager training
•Used Figma and Articulate Storyline 360 to develop an interactive package guide that improved the conversion rate
•Established and grew operations in the Bay Area; Formed 20+ business partnership, generated leads and $400k+ revenuelg...see more
Learning Design Assistant
Harvard University Graduate School of Education 20 Sep 2018 - 23 May 2019 8 months Boston, MA
•Supported by Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, designed training methods for building teacher decision-making capacity
•Collaborated with an MIT research team on prototype digitalization and running biweekly pilot tests on teachers and studentslg...see more
Co-founder & Test Prep Coach
Leapers Test Prep Studio · Self-employed 19 Feb 2015 - 16 Aug 2018 3 years Shenzhen, Guangdong, China
•Co-founded a learning center focusing on 1-on-1 training for IELTS, TOEFL, and GRE tests
•Developed online learning curriculums for standardized tests and Integrated English
•Managed 3 coaches, and recruited and taught 200+ students leading to scoring improvement for 98% of studentslg...see more
Education
Master of Arts - MA, Computer - Aided Translations
The Chinese University of Hong Kong 13 Jun 2012 - 15 May 2013 a year Hong Kong
Master of Education - MEd, Technology, Innovation, and Education
Harvard University 14 Feb 2018 - 26 Sep 2019 2 years Cambridge, MA