Yvon Huang

About

Yvon is the founder of UXY, a woman-friendly career accelerator that started with UX design. Dedicated to advancing UX design education and economic empowerment among Asian women. She is also a multidisciplinary UX consultant, specializing in consumer SaaS products and marketplace platforms. She has over 9 years of experience in optimizing digital products for industry-leading companies. Yvon believes UX is the bridge between business and user. Her user analysis, market research, and design approaches have been dedicated to not only meeting business goals but also solving people’s problems with a touch of joy. Specialties include Human-Centred Design Process, UX Strategy, Qualitative/Quantitative User Research, Data-Informed Decision Making, Strong Business Acumen, and being a Good Remote Team Player. More about Yvon: UX Design Educator/Mentor, Entrepreneurial Thinker, Girls in Tech Taiwan 40 under 40 honoree, Podcast Speaker, Social Good Advocator, and Mom of Twins.

Experience

• Founder · UXY2021-08 – Present

  UXY began as an online UX education platform, fostering a thriving design community and accelerating economic opportunities for Asian. Today, we focus on connecting top-tier design talent with software startups, offering flexible, on-demand design solutions to help businesses grow and thrive.

• UX Consultant · Toptal2021-11 – 2024-07

  Toptal is an elite network of the world’s top talent in business, design, and technology, connecting the top 3% of freelance talent with top brands around the world like Emirates, Airbnb, and Hewlett Packard. Here as a freelance UX consultant, I apply a wide range of both conventional and non-conventional design and business methodologies to help companies achieve better product-market fit with new concepts as well as helping to grow and scale existing products.

• Fellow · Transcend Network2022-11 – 2022-12
• UX Designer · Sketch2019-07 – 2021-07

  1st Asia-hired designer in Taiwan. Worked remotely with a fully distributed team on various cross-platform UX projects. e.g. Onboarding, Collaborative Editing, Symbol States, Payments, Annotation explorations and Workspace Permission etc.

• Mentor · sofasoda2020-06 – 2021-06

  sofasoda is an extended learning platform from Snapask. Helping young professionals get ready for the world of tomorrow. If you need “Portfolio Review” or “Career Q&A” or “Interview Practice” , you can book a 45 mins mentoring session with me.

• Co-Founder & UX/UI Designer · FarmEZ2019-03 – 2019-10

  "Your Live Crop Data Barn"FarmEZ Empowers Farmers by Making the Market More Transparent.

• Food Value Chain Fellow · YSI - Young Sustainable Impact2019-03 – 2019-08

  • Selected from 12,500 applicants. Tackling one of the UN’s sustainable development goal with YARA international. • Building agricultural open data platform with Earthtrepreneurs from UK. USA. Philippine. • Conducted market research and user interview with food value chain stakeholders globally.

• UX Design Mentor · Designlab2018-04 – 2019-05

  Designlab is an online design education program with a focus on 1-on-1 mentorship with expert designers and hands-on projects. What courses do I offer? | User Experience Design Courses | (1) UX Research & Strategy Learn how to make better products through insight and understanding. Perfect for aspiring UX professionals, product managers, entrepreneurs, and more. (2) Interaction Design Understand key interaction design patterns and principles, learn to structure the design of products around the goals of users, and learn to sketch and wireframe your design ideas.

• Product Designer · Codementor2017-06 – 2018-12

  Codementor is an on-demand marketplace for software developers. Clients can get live 1:1 programming help on Codementor and hire world-class developers on CodementorX. Improved marketplace conversion rate by optimizing end-to-end matching experience. Increased new user NPS rate by refining user on-boarding process.

• Product Designer · KKBOX Inc.2016-06 – 2017-06

  KKBOX - Asia's leading music streaming service. With the support from more than 500 international major and local independent music labels, KKBOX features 40 million legal tracks, including the most comprehensive Asia-Pop music library, and is currently available in Taiwan, Hong Kong, Japan, Singapore and Malaysia with over 10 million users. Revamped user signup experience for KKBOX iOS/iPad. Android/Tablet. UWP across 6 regions.

Education

• Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyMIT Entrepreneurship Bootcamp, Beyond the Food Class 1
• Shih Chien UniversityBachelor of Arts (B.A.), Industrial and Product Design
• National United UniversityBachelor of Arts (B.A.), Industrial and Product Design

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