# Emily Tsai

> UX @Google | Product Designer @Mitsubishi, Michigan Ross School of Business, and Compal Electronics

Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/emilytsai1

I'm a product designer with deep expertise in UX research & Interaction design. Currently shaping AI & Wearable experiences @Google

## Work Experience
### UX Researcher @ Google
Jan 2024 – Present | Mountain View, California, United States
Pixel Watch
- Conducting end-to-end user research for Pixel Watch and Pixel Buds, including problem definition, validation, and usability testing, enhancing core wearables user experiences.
- Driving product decisions by refining a key user-facing metric’s user flow through research insights, contributing to a more robust launch of algorithms.
- Collaborating with cross-functional teams, including engineers, PM, tPM, and marketing, to define project requirements and manage timelines, launching new activity detection algorithms on Pixel Watch in 2025 Made By Google.


Pixel Buds
- Formulating research protocols to analyze and discover user behavior, ensuring the collection of high-quality data to enhance AI algorithms.
- Delivered actionable user insights to product managers and engineering teams, driving data-driven product decisions and improvements.

### Product Designer @ University of Michigan - Stephen M. Ross School of Business
Jan 2024 – Jan 2025 | Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States

### UX/UI Design Intern @ Mitsubishi Electric Automotive America, Inc.
Jan 2023 – Jan 2023 | Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States
- Designing interfaces for 5+ features in the advanced driver assistance system using Figma, ensuring the final product met technical specifications and user-centered design principles.
- Communicating design changes to the engineering team, ensuring seamless implementation and alignment with project goals.

### UX Designer @ CLAWS UM
Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 | Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States
- Designing user flows and AR interfaces in Figma to maintain workflows during the missions for NASA.
- Creating specification and UX style guides for the dashboards to deliver consistent design.
- Cooperating with AR, web, and hardware teams using the Scrum process to deploy dashboards with streaming data on HoloLens 2.

### Product Designer @ Compal
Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | Taipei, Taiwan
- Led 14+ U.S. field trials and usability tests, generating 6+ design changes including software architecture, hardware, UIUX, and cloud mechanism; increased product visibility by 175%.

- Created wireframes and AI logic of the conference camera satisfied the use scenarios and technical constraints; launched a go-to-market product.

- Designed new product features based on questionnaires and diary studies, and collaborated with PM, design, engineering, sales, and marketing teams for implementation; established cross-functional workflow.

- Performed statistical analysis to update AI models to enhance the performance of upcoming firmware by 15%.

### Market Research Intern @ Owl Consulting
Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | Taipei, Taiwan
- Carried out 12+ interviews to identify market segmentation and needs for clients, securing 10K company funds.

- Facilitated 3+ focus groups to refine product positioning and marketing strategy; increased profit gains by 25%. 

- Synthesized interview data through card sorting and persona analysis, improving the project flow and design strategies of IoT online courses for the Ministry of Education.


## Education
### Master of Science - MS in Human Computer Interaction
University of Michigan - School of Information

### Bachelor's degree in Psychology
National Taiwan University

### Exchange Student in Psychology
UCLA

### Taipei First Girls High School


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/yehjung
- Portfolio: https://emilyyj.com/

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Last updated: 2026-04-13