Ja Lu
User experience Design @ Brown RISD Design Engineering / Design+Research+Strategy
3 yrs experience · Seattle, WA · <10 hrs/week
About
Hello! I`m Jiawei. I am a product designer specialized in turning high-aspirational business visions into tangible products with functional excellence and pleasing user experiences.
Skills
Experience
- Senior UX Designer · Belva AI02-01-2024
As a Senior UX Designer, likely responsible for leading design projects, collaborating with cross-functional teams, and enhancing user experience.
- Product Design Lead · Dasion08-01-2023 – 02-01-2024
Collaborated cross-functionally with engineers, PMs, user growth team and marketing team. Redesigned the homepage’s information architecture, reducing user bounce-out rate by 45%, and delivered the product distribution material including 3d graphics and videos on website. Identified user pain points through quantitative and qualitative research studies, leveraging insights for the design process.
- Research Fellow · MiraclePlus (formerly Y Combinator China)11-01-2022 – 05-01-2023
MiraclePlus Accelerator now accepts applications year-round. If you have any questions or comments about entrepreneurship, please feel free to reach out to me.
- Experience Designer · SenseTime05-01-2021 – 07-01-2022
Collaborated with art director, project director and screen writer in a cross-function team to create an immersive theatre experience based on the Hugo Award-winning novel The Three-Body Problem. Developed initial design concept and communicated with outside vendor. Took responsibility for three sections of theme park and reported to CEO on a weekly basis. Delivered the final design to construction team.
- User Experience Designer · VerseTech05-01-2021 – 08-01-2021
Designed the landing page of the branding website for Vland - an online conference SaaS used by 25k users, and collaborated with engineers for the launch of the website. Collaborated cross-functionally with engineers, PMs, user growth team, and marketing team to troubleshoot UX problems and improve user engagement for the beta version of Vland. Generated a 45% growth in active users in 2 months.
Education
- Brown UniversityMA, Design Engineering
- Rhode Island School of DesignMA, Design Engineering
- Rhode Island School of DesignMaster of Architecture - MArch, Architecture
- China Academy of ArtB.Eng in Architecture, Architecture
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