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