Stephan Ye
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Stephan Ye

Digital Product Designer in Netherlands, he/him

Hellye!

3 years ago

About

Product Designer with 8+ years of experience in bringing ideas to life as a Design partner for startups and scaleups. Domain within Fintech | ClimateTech | DevEx | AI

Esoteric reader and trail-runner off the dunes in South-Holland.

Contact

LinkedIn

Work Experience

2022 — Now
Amsterdam

Leading product design at Developer Experience startup

2022 — Now
Freelance Product Designer at Stephan Ye Design

Started freelancing for startups within the field of saas, greentech, and fintech. Specialised in product design and strategic product design.

2020 — 2022
Amsterdam

Lightspeed empowers SMB retailers with effective Point-of-sale (POS) and eCommerce solutions. Focused on delivering crucial features for the Web, iOS and Android platforms. Lead the redesign of the iOS POS system and eCom Checkout solution.

2019 — 2020
Amsterdam

Designed an Omnichannel payment gateway for SMB and Enterprise merchants across the world. Worked extensively on improving merchant onboarding as well as successfully rolling out the first Verifone Design System.

2016 — 2019
Gothenburg

Engineering and Design Consultancy, working extensively with clients within the automotive industry. Also consulted for various startups during this period.

2016 — 2018
Gothenburg

UX Designer at startup digital-first car brand, Lynk&Co. Instigated and developed the first Lynk&Co digital design system for all infotainment touchpoints. Worked specifically on the Lynk&Co 02 car, which was Red Dot awarded.

Projects

2022

Previous iOS POS app suffered from poor usability, restricting customer adoption. Together with our product team I lead the design effort to redesign the iOS app suite and drive app adoption rates.

2019

Verifone suffered from inconsistent user experience across all of its platforms. I lead and championed the first digital design system at Verifone. By the end of 2020 we had successfully implemented the design system across the entire omnichannel payment gateway.

Education

2022 — 2022
Amsterdam

10 Week Le Wagon Full Stack Coding Bootcamp: Took an intensive fullstack coding bootcamp to learn database management to the building user interface, learnt all the skills of a Software Developer and to code my own web applications from scratch.

2014 — 2015
Master of Arts at Tongji University
Shanghai

Double degree exchange between Chalmers University of Technology and Tongji University within the department of Industrial Design.

2008 — 2014
Gothenburg

B.SC and M.SC in Industrial Design Engineering.

2012 — 2013
Delft, The Netherlands

Erasmus exchange within the field of Strategic Product Development.

Side Projects

2023

Build framer components as a side project

2022

Final coding bootcamp project, developing a full stack application from scratch. Try it out at www.savecue.xyz!
Test account: mika@email.com
Password: test1234

2022

Started a daily blog on my web bootcamp experience at Le Wagon.

2020

Fun saving application

2019

Committed to posting one design learning or work project per week for 2019. Posts found at my instagram page.

Certifications

2022

Certification of having completed a full 9-week immersive web development bootcamp.