Hieu (William) Le

About

I'm a product designer committed to creating meaningful experiences and long-lasting impacts in people's lives through the power of design and storytelling. My curiosity lies at the intersection of UX/UI and AR/VR design, where I focus on simplifying technology to enhance our daily interactions.

Experience

• Human Interface Design Intern · Apple05-01-2024

  The sole Design Intern on the Video Apps Team (Final Cut Pro, Final Cut Camera, iMovie, and Clips) - Designing interfaces and interactions for iOS, iPadOS, macOS, and visionOS.

• AR Development and Digital Storytelling Extern · Snap Inc.03-01-2024 – 05-01-2024

  Selected among 100 students for the externship program with Snapchat and Extern to build lenses utilizing Snaps Lens Studio. Developed an AR lens focused on the theme 'Sports that Bring Us Together' by creating a time capsule-like memory portal. Chosen as one of seven students to represent one of the top lenses in the program to present in front of the Snap AR team.

• User Researcher · xFoundry@UMD01-01-2024 – 05-01-2024

  1 of 45 students selected to join the first cohort of xFoundry: a program that combines coursework, competition, and multidisciplinary collaboration to address a real-world challenge. The Competition Domain revolves around school safety, with the responsibility of designing a solution to detect and notify key personnel of an active shooter threat on a school campus. Actively participating in various activities, including prototyping, brainstorming, interviewing, co-designing, debating, bonding, preparing, learning, and building with the team.

• Design Lead + Partnerships Member · Startup Shell03-01-2023 – 05-01-2024

  Collaborated with co-lead as well as 9 directors to create designs based on Shell brand for the Website, Instagram stories, fliers, TV screens, posters, etc. One of 35 students who were selected from a pool of 250 candidates to join the Spring 2023 Cohort.

Education

• University of MarylandBachelor's degree, Immersive Media Design (XR)
• University of MarylandBachelor's degree, Technology & Information Design (UX/UI)

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