Christine Dang

Christine Dang

Product Designer in Canada 🍁, she/her

About

Nice to meet you! I’m Christine (she/her), a Toronto-based Product Designer with over 5 years of experience designing B2C digital solutions. I blend my expertise in human behaviour insights and visual design to improve people's everyday interactions with digital technology.

I have collaborated with startups and small-to-medium businesses to tackle digital healthcare, wellness, productivity, and media challenges. With a B.A. in Psychology focused on Behavioral Sciences, my multidisciplinary background enhances product strategy, visual communication, and cross-team collaboration.



💻 Interested in exploring more of my work? Visit xine.design
📩 Need a designer? Send a message at xinedang@gmail.com

Work Experience

2023 — Now
Toronto, Canada

I collaborate with clients on product strategy, delivering memorable user experiences and visual designs informed by psychology and human behaviour insights. I specialize in creating new products and redesigning or optimizing existing ones.

2023 — 2024
Toronto, CAN

Redesigned an 8-year-old pole fitness website using a flexible design system kit under time and budget constraints.

  • Resolved 25 major usability issues with design psychology principles, boosting new customer sign-ups by 25%

  • Updated 20 pages to be mobile-responsive, reducing weekly customer email inquiries by 40%

  • Saved 10 hours per week in design and development

2022 — 2023

Led product strategy and design for a blockchain rewards program, incentivizing weekly viewership of an episodic show on Asian streetwear fashion and lifestyle products.

  • Strategized an engaging rewards program, attracting up to 100,000 digital views per episode

  • Designed a user-friendly web flow, achieving 100% claim rate for collectible rewards

  • Collaborated with developers on a lean UX approach, securing buy-in from all project stakeholders

2020 — 2023
Product Designer at IDENTOS Inc.
Toronto, Canada

PROJECT: My Data 4 Research: Pilot MVP Web App
Led async-collaborative design workshops to help product, health, and research teams adopt lean UX, resulting in the pilot launch of an MVP mobile web app for 50 families with children with Type 1 Diabetes.

  • Designed a prototype that made 80% of parents feel comfortable sharing their child's health information during user testing

  • Reduced the time to read research agreement forms from 10 minutes to under 3 minutes, a 70% decrease

  • Secured approval from the Canadian Research Ethics Board (REB) to pilot Canada’s first digital consent solution for health research

PROJECT: Community Navigator Design System
Created a modular-based design system for a services directory platform, enabling the product team to design, develop, and launch more quickly.

  • Expanded design options from 3 to 20+ unique layouts, increasing configuration options by 85%

  • Reduced clarification touch-points and misunderstandings between design and development by 4 hours per week

  • Decreased design inconsistencies between UI components by 30%

2019 — 2019
Toronto, Canada

Redesigned the web and mobile platform for a home management service, enabling homeowners to organize their household and book service professionals easily.

  • Addressed 15 major usability issues using cognitive and emotional psychology principles, doubling engagement during testing

  • Implemented UX market research strategies to identify improvement opportunities and clarify project scope, reducing team meetings by 2 hours per week

  • Established user interview practices, providing new customer insights and aligning the team vision

2016 — 2018
Toronto, Canada

Developed a social media strategy to increase brand engagement.

  • Engaged over 200,000 people weekly hosting community activities on Facebook and Twitter (X)

  • Attracted over 35,000 subscribers by publishing monthly email newsletters including promotions, original and curated online content

Volunteering

2017 — 2017
EDIT Exhibition Attendant at Design Exchange
Toronto, Canada

Increased foot traffic and gallery engagement throughout all 17 interactive demonstrations that showcased innovative and sustainable technologies

Education

2010 — 2014
Bachelor of Arts Psychology at York University
Toronto

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