Julie Wang

product designer

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Julie Wang
Product Designer

julies.work | linkedin.com/juliewang03 | juliewang0396@gmail.com

Skills

Technical Tools: Figma • Sketch • Procreate • Microsoft Office • HTML • CSS • Adobe Suite: Photoshop, Illustrator

Design: Prototyping • Sketching • Wireframes • Visual Design • User Flows • User Experience • UX Writing • Iteration

Research: Competitive Audits • Personas • Storyboards • Surveying • Interviewing • Usability Testing • Market Research

Experience

UI/UX Intern at Branch | Palo Alto, CA

May — Aug. 2024

  • Identified and documented 200+ instances of UI inconsistencies across the platform via a UI/UX audit, providing detailed documentation and references to facilitate updates by cross-functional team members.

  • Developed a weekly handoff schedule, coordinating the timely delivery of design standards to engineering over a 4-week period, while actively facilitating communication and engagement among team members.

  • Refined and expanded the design system by standardizing elements and integrating one-off UI components, improving consistency in user experience and platform efficiency, reducing future work by approximately 30 percent.

  • Guided the implementation and application of UI patterns and components within the design system, ensuring high quality and coherence across all product areas.

  • Collaborated closely with cross-functional team members, including product managers, engineers, marketing personnel, and researchers, ensuring seamless integration and coherence among 20+ people.

UI/UX Design Intern at Neoboard | Remote

Oct. — Dec. 2023

  • Worked with the Neoboard team to design a centralized platform for communication between teachers and students.

  • Simplified and standardized the navigation scheme across the app by taking an audit of all the previous iterations to propose a set of Figma components for use by all designers.

  • Proposed and mocked up solutions for better readability through usage of visual cues and information architecture based on feedback obtained from user testing sessions.

  • Designed custom integrations with platforms like Gmail, Canvas, and Discord, fixing some of the top pain points in online instructions.

  • Ideated and validated success of work through interviews with college instructors.

  • Increased velocity of design team by leading weekly syncs to define project phases, assignments, and timelines.

  • Collaborated with cross-functional teams, including software engineers and marketing, to clarify ambiguity and set expectations around timelines to deliver product on schedule.

UI/UX Design Intern at Picarro | Santa Clara, CA

Jan. — Mar. 2023

  • Designed interfaces to simplify management of customer accounts and products within the Picarro Global Portal, including a preferences page for configuration of hardware monitoring and behavior.

  • Enabled users to easily distinguish between different data groups in large datasets by incorporating distinct styles to convey information hierarchy and grouping.

  • Contributed to the design system, ensuring alignment with existing company assets and maintaining cohesion with other Picarro products.

  • Presented design ideas and identified areas to improve user experience by organizing feedback sessions with the team.

Education

Master of Human-Computer Interaction & Design | UC Irvine

Sept. 2024

B.S. in Business Administration & Management | SJSU

May 2019

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Julie Wang
Product Designer

julies.work | linkedin.com/juliewang03 | juliewang0396@gmail.com

Skills

Technical Tools: Figma • Sketch • Procreate • Microsoft Office • HTML • CSS • Adobe Suite: Photoshop, Illustrator
Design: Prototyping • Sketching • Wireframes • Visual Design • User Flows • User Experience • UX Writing • Iteration
Research: Competitive Audits • Personas • Storyboards • Surveying • Interviewing • Usability Testing • Market Research

Experience

UI/UX Intern at Branch | Palo Alto, CA

May — Aug. 2024

  • Identified and documented 200+ instances of UI inconsistencies across the platform via a UI/UX audit, providing detailed documentation and references to facilitate updates by cross-functional team members.

  • Developed a weekly handoff schedule, coordinating the timely delivery of design standards to engineering over a 4-week period, while actively facilitating communication and engagement among team members.

  • Refined and expanded the design system by standardizing elements and integrating one-off UI components, improving consistency in user experience and platform efficiency, reducing future work by approximately 30 percent.

  • Guided the implementation and application of UI patterns and components within the design system, ensuring high quality and coherence across all product areas.

  • Collaborated closely with cross-functional team members, including product managers, engineers, marketing personnel, and researchers, ensuring seamless integration and coherence among 20+ people.

UI/UX Design Intern at Neoboard | Remote

Oct. — Dec. 2023

  • Worked with the Neoboard team to design a centralized platform for communication between teachers and students.

  • Simplified and standardized the navigation scheme across the app by taking an audit of all the previous iterations to propose a set of Figma components for use by all designers.

  • Proposed and mocked up solutions for better readability through usage of visual cues and information architecture based on feedback obtained from user testing sessions.

  • Designed custom integrations with platforms like Gmail, Canvas, and Discord, fixing some of the top pain points in online instructions.

  • Ideated and validated success of work through interviews with college instructors.

  • Increased velocity of design team by leading weekly syncs to define project phases, assignments, and timelines.

  • Collaborated with cross-functional teams, including software engineers and marketing, to clarify ambiguity and set expectations around timelines to deliver product on schedule.

UI/UX Design Intern at Picarro | Santa Clara, CA

Jan. — Mar. 2023

  • Designed interfaces to simplify management of customer accounts and products within the Picarro Global Portal, including a preferences page for configuration of hardware monitoring and behavior.

  • Enabled users to easily distinguish between different data groups in large datasets by incorporating distinct styles to convey information hierarchy and grouping.

  • Contributed to the design system, ensuring alignment with existing company assets and maintaining cohesion with other Picarro products.

  • Presented design ideas and identified areas to improve user experience by organizing feedback sessions with the team.

Education

Master of Human-Computer Interaction & Design | UC Irvine

Sept. 2024

B.S. in Business Administration & Management | SJSU

May 2019