Christine Cho
Architect and UX Designer in Boston, MA, USA
Education
Studying architecture and interaction (UIUX) design, pursuing double minor in creative computing and psychology.
Work Experience
Directing 15 UX designers and 4 brand designers, providing guidance and feedback catered to respective project needs.
Providing directionality for 5 project leads and 4 technical leads.
Supervised the Northeastern Ryder Hall Makerspace and Creative Tech Lab.
Assisted fabricating students' physical projects through woodworking, laser cutting, and slicing, as well as their digital projects through the Adobe Creative Suite, Rhino, and AutoCAD.
Coordinated a team of 4 developers and 2 designers with a technical lead to create Brain Game Center, an app for building psychology studies with custom cognitive tasks.
Communicated weekly with the client team of 5 faculty members to define product directions, conduct user research, and implement design strategies.
Redesigned recruitment system for UX designers by rewriting rubrics, structuring tracks, creating challenges, and training interviewers.
Looked over the review of 50+ design applications and 18 interviews.
Led a mentorship program for 70+ architecture students, organizing an ally program, VR exhibition, and software workshops and tutorials. Prepared digital and printed marketing content and managed communications.
Designed UI wireframes, wrote procedure documents, and determined the potential functions for a tokenization product of State Street Digital.
Developed augmented reality (AR) projects for internal clients and led workshops to introduce the technology.
Mentored 50+ architecture students to overcome conceptual and technical challenges, giving assistance in AutoCAD, Rhino 3D, and Adobe Creative Suite.
Assisted three professors to define the lifecycle of an artisanal NFT. Designed and prototyped physical and digital models of interactive XR portal designs.
Initiated design strategies to create effective user flows, sitemaps, and interfaces within the web app Faculty Activity Tracker.
Guided one designer and two front-end developers to design and implement user interfaces.
Collaborated in a team of 6-8 members of designers, developers and project leads to create user flows and sitemaps, conduct user research, and design laptop and mobile interfaces for two projects.
Worked in Project Edlaw, a web app to submit legal forms on education, and Faculty Activity Tracker, a web app facing two user groups to submit and organize Northeastern faculty performance reviews.
Created brand identity for start-up companies by designing logos, company websites, and social media posts
Projects
Created 3 Augmented Reality projects to showcase the new State Street building and execute various forms of data visualization for client use.
Gave a 1-hour online presentation on AR Data Visualization to 270+ State Street employees, introducing use cases, showing documentation of completed projects, and demonstrating processes of development.
Led 5 workshops on utilizing Blender and Adobe Aero to create data visualizations and assets to 15 selected attendees.
Organized a no-code Hackathon with a team of 5, to utilize IBM Watson AI tools for innovative business product development. Resulted in 60+ participants from State Street.
Awards
Designed an educational product to address digital illiteracy among middle-aged individuals for a 3-day producthon (design hackathon).
Collaborated with 3 designers to define problem statement, conduct user research, design wireframes, and outline business goals.
Certifications
Obtained certificate for Research Assistant Role