Resume
I use design as an opportunity of exploring unknown facts and creating future options. Facts of behavior pattern and user preference are the director of my pen, paper, mouse and my design team.
I started my design career with a motivation that designers can work on new things everyday and their lives are full of changes.
As a designer, I realized my favorite is to connect the dots in life through research and fabricate them on paper into design ideas. I'm always fascinated by the epiphanies of figuring out users' desire. Form, shape, material, data visualization and interaction are my things of design. I'm eager to learn every story behind people's desire and preference which I believe are both predictable.
As a design manager, I do my best to undertand every designer's strength and grow the team's capability by inspiring everyone to be better. I have the experience of working with both hardware and software designers. I'm a dreamer of breakthrough design involving hardware design, programming, AI, cloud service, etc. The quicker my team can build, test a new idea, the more chances our design will succeed.
Here is my career journey, from one culture to another:

Almost eight years in Haier, I grew from a  ‘green’ student to a productive designer, design manager. Consultants from Japan and Korea educated and influenced me a lot in our daily co-working experience. I built my own way of ideation and discovering story from user‘s perspective. With Haier’s fast project pace, I participated or lead more than 70 design projects covering refrigerator, washer, air-conditioner, water heater, microwave oven, range hood, cooktop, TV, SDA, etc.

Takeaway from
Haier

EU Front Load Washer
Design Research & ID
2007

EU Standalone Fridge
Design research & ID
2006

In Whirlpool, working with global project teams under the product development process, I was surprised and impressed by its holistic consideration of all design factors, its milestone or tollgate meetings which are designed to ensure design quality, and also its design evaluation toolkit like Cxm, Axm, Qxm. Design becomes an integrated system of research, inspiration, measurement and development.

Takeaway from
Whirlpool

Global Air Conditioner - Sorcerer
ID & Design Implementation
2010

China Top-load Washer
ID & Design Implementation
2012

Takeaway from
Samsung
My job in PIT China is lead the NCD team for DA and TV products, working with headquarter product planning team, advanced R&D team and regional marketing team to deliver new product or service concepts. This provides me the first-hand experience of Samsung’s aggressiveness and how focused it is on discovering new opportunities. PIT’s creation process of integrating user research, design trend, market analysis and technical feasibility stretched my perception of design research.

Air Purifier - Lotus
Research & Design Concept
2013

Smart TV - Aurora
Research & UI/UX
2014

Takeaway from
GE Appliance
The best part of my internship at GE appliance is working with several senior design students from different university and feeling the ‘Engineer Culture’ at GEA. Together with what I learned in UC, this internship gave or push me to think about the relationship between designer or engineer’s individual creation capacity and the overall product innovation process. It’s great experience and I can feel my personal growth driven by it.

Global Washer Design
ID Exploration
2016

Compact Kitchen Exploration
Design Research & Design Concept
2016

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