About
                    
                
             
                    Melody is an user experience designer with her passion for designing digital products to enhance meaningful human interaction and to solve complex problems. She believes that inspiration of design, technology, and people altogether drive innovation for the future.
              
                 
             
         
        
        
         
        
            
                   
                    Education
            
                
                    Carnegie Mellon University | August 2017 - May 2018
                        Master of Professional Studies in Interaction Design
                  Collaborated with Carnegie Museum of Natural History to create an educational
                            museum experience to enhance learning and bring awareness to children/parents of
                            how human impacts influence the ecosystem.
               
                    
                   Pratt Institute | August 2010 - May 2014
           
                  BFA Communications Design - Graphic Design
                    Pratt Show Exhibition: Pratt annual thesis show that only selected top 10 students from Graphic Design program.
                    
 
             
         
         
        
  
        
            
                   
                    Professional Experience
                    
                    
                    - Critical Mass , New York, NY — UI Designer | April 2015 - March 2017
- Led cross-functional team for SAP SE Run Live responsive website design.
                            Developing and executing UI/UX design, 2D/3D prototype building, usability
                            testing/AB testing and final delivery. The website is launched in May 2016 under six
                            months of development and presented at SAP annual conference - SAPPHIRE NOW
                            with over 20,000 attendees.
- Led UI design for project ONE HUNDRED, the world’s first multidisciplinary,
                            fully integrated design service collective for modern nonprofits. Managed
                            the responsive website creation and cross-functional team collaboration.
                            Project ONE HUNDRED has now served more than 265 nonprofit clients such
                            as UNICEF and Hope North each year.
- Orchestrated user interface for Citibank credit cards dashboard and account
                            details pages and led user flows design in both IOS and Android Citibank
                            apps. Successfully engaged Citibank high-net-worth customers with the new account solutions.
- Implemented a new global digital design system for worldwide Citibank.com
                            website with agile working process under a legacy client structure.
- The 88, New York — Web Designer /Graphic Designer | April 2014 - April 2015- 
                    - Collaborated with senior art director in creating Bloomingdale’s digital and
                            social media campaigns, achieving positive feedbacks from Bloomingdale’s
                            executive team in positioning new social media strategies and solutions.
- Led Thierry Lasry responsive website design with stylish brand content and
                            e-commerce platform, integrating Instagram feed shopping directly on
                            website.
- Engaged clients including St. Germain, Suno and Yahoo Beauty for image
                            concepts in pre-production for in-house photoshoots
 - Please email mel200325@gmail.com to request full reseume.
 
             
         
         
     
        
    
        
            
                   
                    Skills
                    
                    - Adobe Creative Suite CC- After Effects, Illustrator,
Photoshop, InDesign & Premiere
Pro
- UX/Prototyping- Sketch, Axure ,Pixate, Invision, OmniGraffle
- Web/Mobile Design- HTML5+CSS, Wordpress, Dreamweaver, JavaScript
 
             
            
                   
                    Design Focus
                    
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                    UI/UX Design ,Interaction
                        Design, Rapid Prototyping,
                        Service Design, Design Thinking,
                        Web Development
Relevant Coursework in CMU
                    
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                    Studio: Designing for
interactions, Interaction design
lab, Research based design for
interactions, Design research
methods, Social innovation
design, Service Design, Intro to
physical computing