Boby / App. & Product DesignWith Microsoft

Introduction - Trying to get pregnent? Women are not alone anymore. Boby involves both men an women together to make the ovulation prediction more accurate and the whole process warm and thoughtful. My role - Conducted user researches and testings, literature review, Prodcut idea generating, lo & hi-fidelity prototying, wireframe, Demo video filming

Money Muscle / App. & Service DesignWith PNC Bank

Introduction - When financial issues become a top reason for teenagers to drop out from colleges, Money Muscle aims to facilitate teenagers’ financial literacy while attracting future customers for a bankMy role - Literature review, user research, personas, storyboarding, speed dating, information structure, hi-fidelity prototyping, instructional content design

EDUCATION

National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan Jun. 2015B.S. Industrial Design

Honor / NCKU Alumni Designer’s Award, First Place awarded based on “Boby” 2015

Honor / CMU METALS Merit Scholarship awarded based on academic merit, Aug. 2017

Carnegie Mellon University, PA Aug. 2018 (Expected graduation)Human Computer Interaction InstituteM.S. Educational Technology and Applied Learning Science (METALS)

SKILLSDesign ResearchContextual Inquiry, Cultural ProbingCognitive Task Analysis, Speed DatingUsability Testing, Mood BoardPersona and ScenarioDesign Research Models

Design and Communication SkillsDigital and Physical Data VisualizationWireframe, Storyboarding, Rapid PrototypingMotion Graphics, 3D Printing

SoftwareXD, Illustrator, Balsamiq, Invision, Photoshop, InDesign After Effects, Tableau, Qualtrics, MURAL, PremiereSolidWorks, KeyShot, OfficeCodingHTML, CSS, JavaScript

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Two3rd Technology Company / Taipei, TaiwanContract Designer / Aug. - Oct. 2014, Aug. 2016 - Mar. 2017

Created an innovative concept combining a coffee maker with a thermos bottle by analyzing user behaviors with service blueprint and executing contextual inquiriesExecuted product development of a smart coffee maker with concept sketching, color planning, mechanism designing, and 3D prototype printingAdvised company’s webpage visualization and Corporate Identity System design

Center for Architecture Explorations / Pittsburgh, PAUX Designer/ Jan. 2018- Ongoing

Transferred traditional grading system into a product-service design to facilitate learning with documentation, feedback, and reflection practice in learners’ journeyConducted various user research methods, including Cultural probing, Experience mapping, Physical model, etc., to prompt the real needs of 6th to 8th grade learners in informal learning environmentsDesigning the information structure, wireframe, hi-fidelity prototype and concept video for a tablet-based application in a four-man teamCollaborating with Assemble, a nonprofit educational organization, to refine the working prototype in multiple learning environments

Light-Whisper Design Studio / Taipei, TaiwanIndustrial Design Intern / Jul. - Sep. 2014

Optimized design concepts from a design competition held by the Kin Man govern-ment to generate graphic design patterns and offer mass product productionDesigned the souvenir packaging graphics for the biggest Hakka culture exhibition in Taiwan, including stickers instruction cards

Townway Design Company / Nantou, TaiwanIndustrial Design Intern / Jul. - Sep. 2013

Developed service design concepts to solve local workers’ decreasing productivity with rapid prototypesRemodeled the obsolete producing mode which relied on huge labor cost by formulat-ing customized design productsImplemented five user research activities that successfully identified rural country workers’ pain points and requirements

1.412.620.3453jmike23q@gmail.com

AWARDS / PATENTMicrosoft Imagine Cup Worldwide, FinalInvention Patent Application, No.104112291Taiwan Design Center Designer Challenge, First PlaceMicrosoft Imagine Cup Taiwan, First PlaceNational Cheng Kung University Exhibition Design Awards, Most Popular AwardNational Cheng Kung University Exhibition Design Awards, First place

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Cheng-Hong Wang

Selected Projects