Joannie Wu Email & Phone Number

Austin, Texas, United States

Austin, Texas Metropolitan Area

I am the person who brought the vision of Slick Dick's Wild Ride to life. What started as a thought experiment over cocktails with my business partner transformed into reality through my branding, interior design, service design, marketing, project management, and pure physical labor.

Austin, Texas Area

As one of two owners of Austin's largest pole dance and aerial studio, I am responsible for establishing and maintaining the studio’s identity through messaging and media content, planning and implementing class and event programming, and managing student and instructor needs.

Austin, Texas, United States

I taught the 2022 Q2 Prototyping and Testing class where I shared my knowledge and experience around rapid problem discovery, paper prototyping, digital prototyping, and testing methods.

Austin, Texas

I managed designers who work on Blackboard's Learning Tools Portfolio. I was responsible for establishing practices and processes to maintain team functionality, leading design initiatives established by corporate and team goals, mentoring and fostering career growth for direct reports, and recruitment on a global scale. I collaborated closely with my design leads, cross-functional partners in product management and development, and the marketing and strategy teams.

Austin, Texas Area

I managed my team’s priorities and focus through the product design and development process of Blackboard's flagship product Learn, led the creation and continuous evolution of our design language system, and fostered collaboration and connection between designers.

Austin, Texas Area

Austin, Texas Area

I worked collaboratively with other designers, strategists, and researchers across a wide-variety of projects involving design research, future casting, design language development, and UI design for companies such as Intuit, Bridgewater, Whole Foods, Samsung, 7-11, and HP.

Austin, Texas Area

I designed UI systems for web and mobile applications to help early stage companies accelerate in their market. I was also responsible for helping startup clients cultivate their brand from visual identity to core messaging as a key part of delivering a first-rate user experience.

Greater Pittsburgh Area

I worked alongside interaction designers and software engineers to run simple usability analyses, create user interfaces, develop storyboards and scenarios, and illustrate diagrams and conceptual models.

Greater Chicago Area

I spent 10 weeks learning about the dynamics of an in-house design team within a large financial research corporation. I created a number of digital assets for the Morningstar corporate site as well as a screensaver and interactive display for the newly redesigned Morningstar Trade Booth.