Suzanne Wu 舒然 + UX

Resume

Professional Experience

Web/ Marketing Designer

Samoset Family Dental | 2015-present

  • Strategy and design of brand; designed and developed website in accessible code
  • Directed and executed marketing strategy (through online, print and internal referral)
  • Increasing web presence from none to first page on Google; increase in revenue
  • Streamlined inefficiencies within the internal office workflow - improved efficiency

UX Apprentice

Fresh Tilled Soil | 2015

  • Usability testing and redesigning a 3D-scanning interface
  • Research and reimagined use cases for the Occipital Structure Sensor
  • Worked with a team to create user journeys, wireframes for new client work
  • Developed a fully accessible web form

Education

BFA, Furniture Design

Rhode Island School of Design | 2010 - 2014

  • Conceive and develop a body of self-directed work comprised of full-scale furniture
  • Use writing, reading, drawing and making to articulate design concepts
  • Ability to handle a variety of materials (wood, metal, plastics & textiles)
  • Flexible design process using form and material research, rapid prototyping & fabrication
  • Develop an educated and critical viewpoint of the industry and furniture as a discipline

Specialization Certificate in Interaction Design

UC San Diego - The Design Lab | 2016 - 2017

7 courses in IxD and HCI plus a final capstone project.

  • Social computing
  • Use writing, reading, drawing and making to articulate design concepts
  • Human-scale interactions through studying human physiology, perception, and cognition
  • User experience research and prototyping
  • Information design within responsive and IoT devices
  • Designing and analyzing measurable experiments in R

In-progress.

Skills

  • User & heuristic tests, experience journey map, user onboarding, design sprints
  • Wireframing, digital and physical prototypes
  • Development for accessibility, HTML, CSS, SEO
  • human ergonomics, plain-language

Clients

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