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About
Mia Liu is a visionary UX Designer with 5+ years of experience in product design. She loves designing sustainable solutions that empower end users in their everyday lives and drive business growth.
Projects
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Collaborated with service designer to research user needs and identify key pain points.
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Led workshops to brainstorm solutions with cross-functional UX teams.
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Developed prototypes and conducted Rapid Iterative Testing & Evaluation (RITE).
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Navigated technical constraints to ensure design feasibility within technical limitations.
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Optimized design to meet key performance indicators (KPIs).
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Increased self-serve capacity for low-tech users.
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Improved user satisfaction.
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Reduced customer support costs.
- Collaborated closely with clients to understand their unique needs, challenges, and business goals, translating them into effective UX strategies and solutions.
- Led end-to-end design processes, from user research and ideation to prototyping, testing, and final implementation, ensuring seamless and intuitive user experiences.
- Collaborated with multidisciplinary teams, including developers, product managers, and stakeholders, to ensure alignment and successful project outcomes.
- Organised Design System workshop to connect passionate designers and share knowledge.
- Led UI design for Storykit's AI video creator, enhancing user-friendly video content creation using AI.
- Built Storykit Design System, connecting design with code by building a better workflow with the development team.
- Directed design strategies for the music library, enabling seamless integration of impactful soundtracks, which helped Storykit acquire 14 new upgraded subscribers.
- Optimized the user experience and data visualization of the user management page.
- Improved the cohesion of user interfaces that aligned with Storykit's brand identity and values.
- Provide guidance and advice on design principles and industry best practices.
- Share insights and experiences to help mentees grow their design skills.
- Review portfolios, projects, and design work, offering constructive feedback.
- Offer career advice and guidance to help mentees navigate the design industry.
- Contribute to the design community by sharing knowledge and expertise.
- Developed realistic prototypes with seamless interactions using Framer.
- Facilitated high-quality User Tests across various squads to validate product hypotheses.
- Created prototype templates tailored for each squad's needs.
- Managed and updated the Design System within the Framer platform.
- Collaborated with global teams across different squads, expediting the delivery of new features in the BlaBlaCar app.
- Established a reusable research framework for the DBond project.
- Organized stakeholder interviews, user surveys, and user interviews to gather comprehensive user insights.
- Collaborated with design, engineering, and marketing teams to collect data from various perspectives.
- Utilized goal-oriented design methods to extract users' characteristics, problems, and needs.
- Translated business strategies into compelling product designs, creating a world-class poster marketplace website and an embedded graphic editor for desktop and mobile.
- Art-directed brand identity, seamlessly weaving brand elements into interface design for a cohesive user experience.
- Crafted engaging email templates for CRM campaigns.
- Pioneered the development of a comprehensive Design System, enhancing component reusability and efficiency.
- Guided the design team in leading User Testing initiatives.
- Directed the brand style of Your Beet and created the brand toolkit.
- Turned business goals into user-centred designs and high-quality prototypes for the Your Beet app.
- Designed the experience and interfaces for Your Beet's official website to express the company's mission, values, and its product.
- Led the user tests to validate design hypotheses.
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Conducted 12 user interviews to better understand the needs and pain points of party DJs in relation to existing music apps.
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Constructed requirements based on the user studies, desktop studies, and brainstormed creative solutions using Brainwriting for the design problem.
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Drafted conceptual diagrams and wireframes; crafted interactive prototypes and UI mockups. In a usability and visual experience evaluation with 6 users, the prototype received 83% positive feedback.
- Designed user interfaces and interactions for the COSE official website to introduce the organization, explain its value, and communicate with investors. The website attracts over 50 visitors per week.
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Created the visual interface for MusicMash's web-based app, which simplifies user interactions, enhances collaboration and enhances the party experience.
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Coded front-end interfaces using ReactJS and Material UI, attracting 60+ new users to use them at their parties.
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Explored creative design opportunities for mental depression in the context of Sweden's dark winter with a team of 4.
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Designed an Android AR app to brighten users' daily moods by replacing depressing window views with impressive views.
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Developed an algorithm for tracking window frames in Unity by C# and AR foundation.
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Tested the application with ten users, and 80% reported it improved their moods.
Education
Specialised in Human-computer Interaction and Design
Specialise in Human-computer Interaction and Design
Specialise in Human-computer Interaction and Design.
Minor in Innovation & Entrepreneurship
Specialised in Information Management and Information System