# April Hsuan Yang

> Staff Product Designer, VMware Cloud Design Lead at VMware

Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/aprilhsuanyang

I am an enthusiastic UX Designer in the Bay Area. I love reading and making stuff.
Please feel free to ping me or shoot me an email (hsuanjj@gmail.com) if you are interested in working with me!

## Work Experience
### Staff Product Designer, VMware Cloud Design Lead @ VMware
Jan 2021 – Present
• Lead the UX for VMware Cloud on AWS team and develop elegant designs to help our customers achieve their business needs.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to work on innovative product offerings.

### Senior Product Designer @ VMware
Jan 2019 – Jan 2021
• Design and develop simple and intuitive experience for VMware Cloud on AWS, currently VMware’s top project, which brings together all the essential VMware offerings into the cloud space. 
• Create end to end flow to guide customers through the learning, provisioning, and managing experience. 
• Conduct user research with customers to understand their challenges when transitioning to cloud and design improvements to help them accordingly.

### Senior UX Innovation Designer @ Visa
Jan 2016 – Jan 2019 | San Francisco Bay Area
• Apply design thinking process to incorporate requirements and feedback from multiple stakeholders.
• Work as part of the UX innovation team to conceptualize, storyboard, produce design artifacts and present to external partners. 
• Collaborate with developers, product owners, marketing, and project managers to define product experience and champion the user.

### UX Designer @ Renaissance Learning
Jan 2015 – Jan 2015
• Take a holistic, empathetic, research-driven approach to design and apply strategic thinking to deliver innovative experience.
• Take ideas and visualize them so they are communicated effectively.
• Work in Agile environment to collaborate closely with product owners, researchers, product management, and development team members.

### UX Designer @ SAP
Jan 2014 – Jan 2015 | Palo Alto
• Refine and iterate product design to create the best user experience.
• Executing interaction design and visual design as a part of a multi-disciplinary team.
• Perform research to discover and implement important design details.

### UX Design Lead (MHCI Capstone Project) @ Google
Jan 2014 – Jan 2014
• Designed user experiences and in charge of the research in team.
• Incorporated user-focused design considerations.

### Teaching Assistant @ National Taiwan University
Jan 2012 – Jan 2013
• Analyzed data for a university ranking project “Performance Ranking of Scientific Papers for World Universities”.
• Proofread articles for publication in academic journals and direct paper submission process.

### Research Assistant @ National Taiwan University
Jan 2012 – Jan 2013
• Instruct undergraduate students in computer programming language (Java).
• Grade student exams and homework, and provide one-on-one instruction during office hours.


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/aprilhsuan
- Portfolio: http://www.iamaprilyang.com/

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Last updated: 2026-04-13