Shuang Xu Email & Phone Number

Chicago, Il, Us

Downers Grove, Il, Us

- Building the User Experience team, design system, and research process from ground up.- Creating In-Home User Testing methodology that maximizes data collection from real context and minimizes logistics cost.- Driving user-centered design thinking and influencing produce definition with actionable insights from user research.- Collaborating with Marketing, Product engineering, and Industrial Design teams to deliver optimal experience design.- Defining consistent visual and sonic brand languages to enhance interaction designs with brand recognition.- Staffing, managing, and coaching UX talents, empowering young professionals to unlock their potentials.

Lexington, Kentucky, Us

- Leading a global User Experience Design team to improve customer experiences on touchscreen imaging devices;- Communicating the value of user-centered design and provide key leadership and advice to all stakeholders;- Driving usability research and user experience design as core components of the product development process;- Allocating team resources to achieve milestones and deliverable on schedule;- Developing people to ensure that the team is energized, unified, and motivated to improve professional skills.

Deerfield, Illinois, Us

- Providing Human Factors support to cross functional program teams for development and innovation;- Leading human factors engineering and research projects to contribute to the design of new and existing products;- Conducting user studies and heuristic evaluations in areas of software, hardware, and medical products;- Interacting with business stakeholders to identify HF opportunities, evaluate user interfaces, and validate technologies;- Sharing usability findings and design recommendations to influence technical decisions and strategy;- Supporting less experienced human factors engineers with technical supervision.

Chicago, Illinois, Us

- Identifying and gathering user needs and requirements from various business units;- Designing and conducting user studies (focus groups, paper prototyping, surveys, interviews, usability testing, etc.) tovalidate and evaluate the innovative experience design;- Incorporating findings from user studies into product design and iteratively improve the design concepts;- Presenting usability recommendations to the development team and stakeholders;- Serving on the patent review committee.

Chicago, Il, Us

- Developing research hypotheses based on extensive literature & marketing reviews;- Defining target user demographic and experiment methodologies to validate research hypotheses;- Prototyping testing software applications for controlled usability experiments;- Conducting research experiments to collect users’ performance and satisfaction;- Performing statistic analysis to evaluate the usability performance of the proposed interaction systems;- Presenting findings at international conferences on Human Factors, Information Systems, and User Experiences.

New York, Ny, Us

- Partnering with internal business units and development team to design and deploy innovative web experiences;- Transforming user needs, business objectives, and technology capabilities into site experience requirements;- Building information architecture models that specify content hierarchical structures and navigation systems;- Documenting design details with low-fidelity prototypes, storyboards, wire-frames, site maps, and information flows;- Evaluating usability of new and existing web experiences;- Recommending improvements to enhance user experience based on research findings and usability standards.

Phd, Human Computer Interaction

M.E., Computer Science

B.E., Industrial Design