Xuan Chen

UI/UX DESIGNER

Xuan.catherinechen@gmail.com

Bellevue, WA (United States)

Profile

A business and community-focused UX Designer who merges user needs with business and technical constraints. Advocates for user-centered solutions while maximizing company revenue. Passionate about visual aesthetics and creating intuitive designs that simplify users' lives. With a unique background in front-end development, entrepreneurship, and design, I excel at approaching problems with interdisciplinary perspectives and thrive as a collaborative and supportive team player to create impactful business solutions and engaging user experiences.

Experience

July 2022 - August 2023 | Vancouver, Canada

Enhanced client digital experience as increased $30,000 annual conversion revenue by iterating the platform’s home page and visual design over two months


Responsibilities:

  • Conducted market research and analyzed user feedback to iterate multiple user flows, including dashboard, payment, and checkout experience

  • Established the Design System by using Figma to improve the visual design and branding assets of the company

Taoxue Life Technology, UI/UX Designer

August 2021 - June 2022 | Vancouver, Canada

Increased 70% of the website traffic within a week by redesigned the company's official website, using existing assets and working closely with the marketing coordinator


Responsibilities:

  • Accomplished the lifecycle of the cross-platform web and mobile product design with cross-functional team members, including developers, product manager, marketing coordinators, and stakeholders

  • Designed the branding style guide, UI Library, and design specifications as increased the work efficiency of the development and product design teams

Carrot Ecommerce, Web & Graphic Designer

July 2020 - July 2021 | Wenzhou, China

Enhanced web and graphic design tool skills including Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, Premiere, AdobeXD, InDesign, HTML and CSS


Responsibilities:

  • Delivered aesthetic web, and UI graphic designs for six eCommerce clients in collaboration with an Intermediate UI/UX Designer

Education

University of Washington, M.S. in Technology Innovation

September 2023 - Expected in March 2025 | Seattle, United States

BrainStation, Diploma in User Experience Design

January 2022 — September 2022 | Vancouver, Canada 

University of British Columbia, B.A. in Visual Arts

September 2016 - May 2020 | Vancouver, Canada

Certificates

Harvard Business School Online, Certificate in Design Thinking and Innovation

August 2022 — October 2022 | Remote 

BCIT School of Business and Media, Associate Certificate in Web Technology

April 2020 — April 2021 | Vancouver, Canada 

SkillS

Research

User Interviews

Usability Testing

Card Sorting

Heuristic Evaluation

Competitive Analysis

Product Strategy

Surveys

Personas

User Flows

Affinity Analysis

User Research 

Design

User Experience Design

User Interface Design

Interaction Design

Visual Design

Graphic Design

Product Design

Style Guides

Digital Design

Wireframes

Rapid Prototyping

Storyboarding

Journey Mapping

Personas

Information Architecture

User Flows

Front End Development

Responsive Web Design

Accessible Web Design

Mockups

3D Modeling

Augmented Reality Design

IoT Product Design 

Toolkits

Figma & FigJam

Sketch

InVision

Adobe XD

Adobe Creative Suite

Fusion360

Mockplus

Spark AR

Canva

Microsoft Office 

Inkscape

Miro

Jira

GitHub

Visual Studio Code

Programming languages

HTML

JavaScript

CSS

Bootstrap

TailwindCSS

Python

C++ 

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