Teaching Assistant for:

• CS 247S: Service Design (Prof. Julie Stanford, January - March 2024),

• CS 193C: Client-Side Internet Technologies (Dr. Patrick Young, June - August 2024)

• CS 147: Introduction to Human-Computer Interaction Design (Dr. James Landay, present)

• Managed a design plan schedule divided into sprints, with priority, timeline, deliverables, and OKRs defined.

• Coordinated communications and team syncs between product lead/project manager, client organization, and designers across different timezones.

• Mentored team on best design and web practices and held workshops to train team and client.

• Created website’s design system and custom components to align with client’s brand image using Figma and Framer.

• Collaborated in an Agile environment with software, editorial, C-suite, and social media teams to inform website and app specifics as well as marketing strategy.

• Conducted ethnographic interviews during needfinding and user testing phases with cross-functional stakeholders, creating user personas, journey maps, and other artifacts while validating new prototype.

• Organized UI in a mobile-first, responsive design perspective shaped by modular design rules, repeatable page components, and templatization.

• Pitched NextShark features and prototypes to increase engagement and secured thousands of funding from new company investors from VCs and political backgrounds within the Asian community.

Under Stanford Inclusive Design Week:

• Coordinated team meetings and bonding exercises to strengthen camaraderie and promote teamwork during brainstorming.

• Facilitated logo iteration in design group, incorporating team-wide feedback throughout the process to determine visual language.

• Led technical implementation of website coding, ensuring features were accessible to screen readers and people with vision impairment or low vision.