Hi! I’m Ernest. I am a self-taught designer who crossed disciplines out of necessities and passion. As a product designer at Huawei, my role is to envision what to make and do, why do it and how to innovate contextually, both immediately and over the long term.

Experience

2019 — NowFacebookProduct Designer

2019 — Now

2017 — 2019Huawei Consumer Business GroupSenior UX Designer

2017 — 2019

San Francisco Bay Area

The team is focused on human-centered machine intelligence design. We create principles, guidelines, components, and ‘best-practices’ for EMUI features that involves machine learning.

User Relationship Design: The AI-powered strategy for building smart, adaptive systems that evolve to continuously improve the user experience.

Anticipatory Design Framework: Developed the guiding framework that helps designers know when and how to apply machine learning to improve user experience.

Intelligent System Components: Created a set of next-generation system components that is designed to be AI-ready.

2016 — 2017Bowhead TechnologyProduct Designer

2016 — 2017

Shanghai City, China

Gululu is on a mission to help children a develop a habit for hydration. As a product manager, I am responsible for interpreting user insights and designing habitual features.

Habit-forming UX: Analyzed and designed behavior changing features that build habits.

Web Design: Applied user insights to build and enhance our communication of value proposition. Led, strategized, and constructed the web / commerce experience.

Product Design: Was instrumental in the process from initial brainstorming to designing for manufacturability

2015 — 2016HTCProduct Designer

2015 — 2016

Taipei City, Taiwan

I was a part of a very diverse but collaborative team called Integrated Design. Tackling a wide range of tasks:

Product Strategy: Research, developed, and implemented 1-3 year product strategies within the new products division at HTC.

Culture Design: Applied new ways to facilitate and ingrain these ideas into the culture of the teams building the products.

Human Centered Design: Discovering market insights based on in-depth consumer research

Brand Strategy: Brand positioning and visual guideline

Digital Strategy: Website visual designs

2014 — 2015HTCMechanical Designer

2014 — 2015

Enhance and validate designs for manufacturability and usability.

Design, prototype, and test new mechanisms based on user study.

Initiated Maker Hackathon for internal design department.

Education

2009 — 2013

University of Washington

Bachelor of Science (BS)

2009 — 2013

2005 — 2009

Singapore American School

2005 — 2009