# Jerry Yao

> Senior UX Designer | Amazon | Robotics and Emerging Products

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

A multidisciplinary designer with 7+ years of experience in product design. Proficient in rapid prototyping with a tracked record shipping both hardware and software products from concept to launch in tech and automotive industry.

## Work Experience
### Senior UX Designer, Consumer Robotics @ Amazon Lab126
Jan 2024 – Present | San Francisco, California, United States
Building consumer robotics & emerging products ✨

### Prototyping Design Engineer, Autonomous Vehicle @ Ford Motor Company
Jan 2021 – Jan 2024 | Detroit Metropolitan Area
Accomplished two successful product launches and filed two design patents by designing user experience and prototypes for autonomous vehicles. Integrated digital design concepts into physical prototypes for presentations to senior leadership at Ford to drive future product roadmap.

### Learning Experience Designer @ Amazon Robotics
Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 | North Reading, Massachusetts
Designed and developed 3 websites and 10+ interactive eLearning courses for warehouse robotics products, resulting in a 25% increase in active users and 1000+ certified customers.

### Graduate Researcher / HMI Designer @ MIT Media Lab
Jan 2017 – Jan 2019 | Cambridge, Massachusetts
Successfully delivered a lightweight autonomous vehicle research project from concept to production. Led the efforts in UX design, industrial design, and developed over 10 human-machine interfaces (HMIs), resulting in a product launch and a publication with 10+ citations.

### Exhibitor, Future Mobility @ Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | Greater New York City Area
Invited to showcase an autonomous vehicle project at the Cooper Hewitt Design Museum—reimagining future mobility exhibition.


## Education
### Master's degree in Media Arts and Sciences
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

### Bachelor's degree in Industrial and Product Design
National Taiwan University of Science and Technology


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/jerryao

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Last updated: 2026-04-13