About my design journey...
Thanks for taking the time to visit my portfolio! I am a Product Designer with a curiosity to explore future possibilities. Here's my design journey.
Before UX, I graduated with a BA (Hons) Advertising @Hong Kong, training my digital, graphic, branding, animation, social media, and advertising skills. After my BA graduation, I became a Yahoo Designer for 3 years, providing integrated creative design solutions. Throughout working on different clients' projects, I critically think about what is design.
My transition into UX stemmed from my belief that design can help people solve problems, not just communicate better. I want to put people first and design something that can make them live better. Therefore, I moved to London to study MA User Experience Design at the University of the Arts London. Learning and working on UX equipped me with a human-centred and experimental mindset. Our world is transforming because of technological innovation and globalization. User expectations and experiences are changing all the time. I consider myself a Product Designer who understands and accepts human behaviour the way it is and not the way we want it to be. I am enthusiastic about creating genuine and conscientious products for people.
— Winnie Wong
Clients
Lloyds Bank, EY, UAL, Yahoo, Verizon Media, Publicis, IBM, HSBC, Allianz, The Usborne Foundation, etc.
Awards
Yahoo Hackday — Champion 2018
Red Dot Design Award — App Design 2017
Adobe Design Achievement Awards 2017
Yahoo University Program — First Runner Up
Two Dean’s Lists
Four Talent Development Scholarships
Education
MA User Experience Design — University of the Arts London
Distinction A+
BA (Hons) in Advertising — THEi Hong Kong
CGPA 3.43/4
Recently
Living and working in London, UK
Senior Product Design Consultant — EY Seren →
Mentor — London College of Communication→
Reading
How Google Works — Eric Schmidt and Jonathan Rosenberg
Deep Thinking — Garry Kasparov
Enjoyed
User Friendly — Cliff Kuang and Robert Fabricant
Thinking, Fast and Slow Book — Daniel Kahneman
Shoe Dog — Phil Knight
The Design of Everyday Things — Don Norman
Sprint — Jake Knapp
Steal Like an Artist — Austin Kleon
Show Your Work — Austin Kleon
Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products — Nir Eyal
Emotional Design — Don Norman
Steve Jobs — Walter Isaacson
Elon Musk — Ashlee Vance
Invisible Women — Caroline Criado-Perez
Atomic Habits — James Clear
Listening
Learning
UX Accessibility — Online Course
Product Management — Online Course
Interested in
Artificial Intelligence - How machine learning will shape the next decade?
Crypto Currency - How digital money could transform finance?
The Future of Food - How to feed the planet without destroying it?
Climate Change - How we can get to carbon zero?
The Future of Medicine - How we will enjoy longer, healthier lives?
Learned
Lean UX and Agile — Nielsen Norman Group →
Create a Design System in Figma — awwwards. academy →
Outside of work...
Apart from being a Designer, I’m a cat lover. Having a cat makes me a better UX Designer. Two questions always pop up in my mind are "What makes my cat love me more?" and "How to communicate better with my cat?"... These are some thinkings around user experience, so "What makes your users love your product?" :D
I like daily drawing. Sometimes it helps me find puzzle pieces of memories, some weird ideas, some hidden self and more. I feel relaxed and concentrate more when I draw! so how well do you know yourself?
