Sam Miao

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Director of User Experience @ GAC MOTOR
Shanghai, China
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About Sam Miao

A designer, born in China ,has diverse work experiences across China, UK, USA.In the past 13 years, I have been involved in vehicle, Kitchen appliances, consumer electronics ,pharmaceutical products, medical products by practicing multi- disciplinary design methodologies. The experiences enabled me to broaden my horizon and gain a deeper comprehending of design.4 Red Dot Design Awards2 Red Dot Best of the best4 IF Design Awards

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GAC MOTOR

Gac Motor

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Director of User Experience
Shanghai, China
Website:
gac-motor.com
Employees:
592
Sam Miao Work Experience Details
  • Gac Motor
    Director Of User Experience
    Gac Motor
    Shanghai, China
  • Avatr
    Deputy Director Of User Experience
    Avatr Sep 2021 - Present
    Shanghai, China
    #Part 1: Building User Experience Design Team and Creating User Experience Blueprint1) Creating Consistency in Brand and User Experience: Organizing high-level workshops within the company based on brand strategy to develop company-wide experience guidelines that are linked to various business departments. Responsible for maintaining brand experience consistency throughout the user lifecycle.2) Guiding Business Units in Product strategy, Sales, Delivery, and After-Sales to Develop Business Strategies and SOP: Organizing workshops with key personnel in each business unit based on the experience guidelines to develop business strategies and SOP, ensuring alignment with brand strategy.3) Creating User Experience Journey Maps: Using user perspective to create user journey maps and defining resource output strategies and core MOT (Moments of Truth).4) Monitoring and Supervising the Implementation of User Experience: Establishing a measurement system for the user experience, creating an experience dashboard, diagnosing experience issues, finding solutions, and creating a closed-loop experience.5) Building and Maintaining a Brand User persona/User Tags Repository: Ensuring that every employee in the company has a clear understanding of the core customer base so that they have a user reference when innovating business.Part 2: Building Lifestyle Sub-Brands from Scratch:1) Creating brand design, industrial design, graphic packaging design, and UI design teams from scratch.2) Strategy Development: Establishing brand strategy, industrial design PI specifications, graphic packaging design VIS, and UI VIS from scratch.3) Process Development: Creating product development processes from 0-1 based on the existing organizational structure to improve internal work efficiency.4) Product Innovation: Establishing “ A DESIGN LAB” innovation mechanism, tightly controlling the definition of self-developed products and experience innovation.2024, 2 x Reddot Best of the Best
  • Alibaba Group
    Industrial Design And Service Design Expert
    Alibaba Group Dec 2018 - Jun 2020
    Shanghai City, China
    - Defining the direction and strategy for new retail IoT smart hardware design, controlling design experience, applying service design thinking, and focusing on how to improve the consumer experience in stores and how to enhance the efficiency of staff from an end-to-end perspective. Proposing comprehensive solutions while considering ROI and project commercialization.1: In-depth analysis of business scenarios, using qualitative and quantitative research tools such as shadow tracking, expert interviews, role-playing, etc., to map the journey and identify pain points and opportunities.2: Organizing co-creation sessions with relevant stakeholders to brainstorm solutions for identified pain points.3: Using tools like Google Sprint to quickly create prototypes/demos, validate business models, and incubate brand-new innovations from 0-1.4: Once the business model is validated, proceeding with industrial design, interactive design for smart hardware, using 3D printing for multiple rounds of prototype development, validating human-computer ergonomics and optimizing the combined hardware-software experience.5: Product launch and validation, continuously collecting feedback using the System Usability Scale (SUS) questionnaire, and iterating to enhance the product experience.6: Consolidating methodology: user experience framework, design language, design principles.7: Commercialization of the product, transitioning from a single point to multiple points.8: In-depth research on smart hardware IoT design and the methodology of hardware-software integration.
  • The University Of Vermont Health Network - Central Vermont Medical Center
    Service Design Freelancer
    The University Of Vermont Health Network - Central Vermont Medical Center May 2018 - Aug 2018
    Burlington, Vermont, Usa
    As service designers in the hospital innovation centre, we are trying to figure out the different factors that could make it difficult for patients or caregivers to understand or follow the advice you receive from different healthcare providers (i.e., social workers, doctors, nurses, etc.). We are closing working with Healthcare team and patients to get get their perspectives on what currently works and what doesn’t to improve. We dig in the barriers and come up with holistic solution to improve patients' overall health care experience.
  • Philips
    Senior Designer
    Philips Apr 2014 - Sep 2017
    Shanghai City, China
    Philips is an amazing enterprise which really respects design, considering design as the core function, critical to the success of the company.Working here, what really impressed me was you will be a critical stakeholder to push projects move forward. Closely working with different functions (Engineer, Marketing, Sales PRC) prompted and polished my interpersonal skills. Every Design should follow Philips’ design BEDA to make sure products developed by different team & different categories have Philips’ DNA. That is really challenging but where designers' value should be!Projects2014.3-2014.5 Indonesia Rice cooker design2014.7 New Electric Pressure Cooker design language workshop 2014.9 whole series of New Russia Multi-cooker design 2015 Rice cooker X5 design, Red dot and IF design award 2016 Rice cooker X3 design, IF design award2016 Rice cooker X4 design, China successful design award2017 Electric pressure cooker A6 design , China successful design award2018 AVENT PHILIPS Electric breast pump design, IF design award / Red dot design award
  • Worrell
    Senior Industrial Designer
    Worrell May 2012 - Apr 2014
    Shanghai
    Worrell (Shanghai), 80% of the project design focus on Healthcare products, 20% for consumer products. Worrell is an US industrial design firm. We inspire institutional change and improve lives globally through design.www.worrell.com.cnwww.worrell.comCompared with my previous job (consumer product design), I focused more on the human factor, user experience which is much more user centric. Health care product design is quite UE &Function driven that needs logical and rigorous design thinking. Healthcare design covers pretty wide scope of design process including the field research, hospital research , surgery observation, operation research, ergonomics, VOC, brainstorming, sketch, CAD, prototyping, working sample iteration test, animation and so on. This period work experience enabled me to master a set of comprehensive and cohesive design methodology.Project2012.6-2012.10 Covidien Generator development lead Co-creation, In charge of product design, involved in VOC,UI design2012.9-2012.11 Johnson & Johnson MAK animation set upSet up an animation showing the key steps of product’s way of working to demonstrate surgery process 2012.11-2013.5 Lenovo NUI innovationResearch project: From desktop research, DATA analysis to interaction trend, VOC, brainstorming, NUI concept visualization. //ClientsJohnson & Johnson Covidien Microport Watlow Graco MTS Lenovo
  • Pegatron
    Industrial Designer
    Pegatron Jun 2010 - May 2012
    Shanghai
    Formerly part of the Taiwanese company ASUS, PEGA Design & Engineeringhttp://www.pegadesign.com/During this period of work experience, I concentrated on kitchen appliance products design (juicer, soybean milk machine, kettle.) and electronic consumer products (laptop, tablet, all-in-one etc.). Have built quite solid skills like 3D modelling, 2D rendering, sketching, Animation. Closely worked with engineers and marketing team, which enabled me to know how to communicate and negotiate and how to solve the clashes among design, engineering and marketing. Project I had been involved in2010.9-2010.10 Joyoung JuicerIn charge of product design, competitive landscape analysis, User experience study. 2011.2-2011.06 Joyonng soybean milk maker E5In charge of product design, User interface and CMF design. This soybean milk maker was in the high-end range with brand new archetype and technology. Design was highly welcomed by clients.2011.5-2011.9 Haier 7G laptopIn charge of competitor Research, Product design, CMF design, communicating with client’s design team2011.11-2012.3 Intel Double screen TabletIn charge of brainstorming. Concept generation.Several valued ideas were patented//ClientsIntel, Lenovo, HP, Dell, Asus, Acer, Panasonic, Haier, Siemens. Joyoung, Supor

Sam Miao Skills

Product Design Research Design Strategy User Interface Design Computer Animation English Sketching 3d Rendering 3d Modeling Industrial Design Design Thinking Product Development Concept Generation Hypershot

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Sam Miao attended 英国伦敦艺术大学.

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