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Xuan Wang ©2009-2012


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Work Experience

eBay Inc.
User Experience Designer
05/2011 - Current

Lead design effort of Milo.com redesign and other mobile products as the only UX designer. Initiated and organized testing and evaluation for multiple projects.

Advocated user centered thinking in the team and facilitated team collaboration.

Worked closely with Product Managers to conduct user research, set product road map and project timeline, and to make strategic decisions.

Worked closely with developers to make sure design was implemented correctly and solve problems on the spot.

Method Inc.
User Experience Intern
10/2010 - 05/2011

Redesigned and audited existing interfaces to create richer experiences and ensure consistency. Created and analyzed use cases to iterate on interaction models.

Produced and iterated on wireframes, design specifications and user flows based on frequent client feedback.

Contributed to the design research, including competitive analysis, IA proposal, concept sketching, and brainstorming.

Presented design research insights, concepts, and deliverables to team and clients.

Olixus Inc.
User Experience Designer
09/2010 - 11/2010

Worked closely with CEO to lead user experience effort for Olixus.com from conceptualization to specifications under tight deadlines. Delivered interactive mockups to engineers.

Applied and advocated user-centered design thinking to inform design decisions.

Proposed new information architecture through card sorting and use case analysis.

Indiana University
Web Designer
03/2010 - 05/2010

Worked closely with Townsend Lab Director to redesign web site for Configural Processing Consortium to publish conference information, deliver and archive content.

Created information architecture, wireframes, and visual assets for the website. Responded to and iterated upon client feedback in short time frames.

Implemented new Configural Processing Consortium website using HTML and Blueprint CSS framework.

Activities

Associate Instructor
07/2009-12/2009

Instructed new design students in Interaction Design Class on the application of user- centered design methods. Facilitated team collaboration and project planning for multiple student interaction design teams. Led critique and post-mortem sessions over multiple-week design projects.

Award & Publication

Won 2nd prize in OZCHI 09 24-hour design challenge with project StoryTime. Published StoryTime: experiencing place through history in OZCHI ‘09 Proceedings

Communities

Association for Computing Machinery, ACM Special Interest Group - Computer Human Inter- action, Interaction Design Association

Education

Indiana University
M.S. HCI Design
09/2008-05/2010

Focused on user centered interaction design thinking and methodology, supplemented by game design and graphic design theory and practice.

Beihang University
B.S. Aerospace Engineering
09/2004 - 06/2008

Focused on Guidance Navigation and Control, Digital Image Processing.

Skills

Design Methods

Usability Testing, Sketching, Wireframing, Flow Charting, Information Archetecture, Mockup, Prototyping, Interviewing, Focus Groups, Contextual Inquiry, Affinity Diagramming, Heuristic Evaluation, Personas, Story-boarding, Ethnography, Surveys, Questionnaires, Card Sorting, Brainstorming, Task Analysis.

Languages

HTML, CSS.

Tools

Adobe Creative Suite, OmniGraffle, Axure.