# KaiFeng Cheng

> Senior User Experience Designer

Location: San Jose, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/kaifeng

A user experience designer with extensive experience of the entire UX design and iteration cycle from initial conception to final product delivery. 

My skills include but not limited to:
- UX/UI Design: empathy, user flow, wireframes, hi-fi mockups, interactive prototype and design specs/system
- User Research: user study, research design, user persona, usage scenarios and usability test
- Product management: understanding user needs, defining development strategies, communicating with stakeholders, prioritizing product features and planning roadmaps

## Work Experience
### Senior UX/UI Designer @ Stanford University Graduate School of Education
Jan 2016 – Present | Stanford, California
- Design and develop EdTech applications that enrich learning experiences and support pedagogical researches.
- Collaborate with Stanford faculty and academic support teams to perform user research, identify user needs and define app specs.
- Lead UX/UI design and iterations from the preliminary user study to product launch.
- Utilize prototype tools to create wireframes, usage scenarios, user persona, storyboards, sitemaps, hi-fi screen mock-ups and design specs to communicate with developers and stakeholders.
- Oversee project progress by planning roadmaps, prioritizing tasks, tracking deliverables, managing feature backlogs, resolving conflict and issues, quality assurance and final reporting and documenting.
- Maintain insights into industrial evolutions, trends and best practices. Explore EdTech opportunities by refining existing capabilities and challenges and leverage new possibilities.

### Assistant Professor @ China University of Technology
Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 | Taipei City, Taiwan
Courses: Media Convergence and Technology Trends; Portfolio Design; Startup Case Studies; Media Writing.

### Designer; Co-founder @ S'more Studio, An Innovative Party Venue
Jan 2013 – Jan 2015 | Mountain View, CA
- Develop and implement a company-wide business goal and marketing plan.
- Closely work with customers to design and communicate creative visions.
- Keep up with new design trends and analyze customer data.

### UX/UI Designer and Researcher; Founding Member @ 2gagda Inc., Mobile App Development
Jan 2012 – Jan 2013 | San Jose, CA
- Responsible for UX/UI design and research; visual design; solo designer.
- Develop product approach. Re-imagine the use of social media for the mobile generation and identify UX strategies. Produce sketches, task diagrams and wireframes.
- Create detailed mock-up prototypes with engineering team members.
- Deeply engaged in user studies. Collect and analyze quantitative data through close observations and interviews. Identify UX issues and provide UX design suggestions and provided detailed UX/UI guidelines to the team.
- Document UX design and system patent.

### Associate Instructor @ University of California, Berkeley
Jan 2005 – Jan 2011
- Courses: Introduction to Computing in Architecture (in Department of Architecture); Introduction to Computing (in Department of Engineering); Introduction to Mass media; Visual Communication (in Department of Media Studies)
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- Responsible for course design, class preparation, discussion sections, paper/exam grading and one-on-one meetings.

### Graduate Student Researcher @ University of California, Berkeley
Jan 2005 – Jan 2011
- Responsible for archival research, literature review and fieldwork, interface and interaction design, mock-up, exhibition planning, usability test, and user experience analysis
- Collaborated with designers and engineers to develop scenario, storyboard, interaction flow, wireframes and prototype
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- Simulated avatars, virtual environments and street-scape with 3Dmax and Autocad
- Designed demo and lab settings for user studies. Collected both quantitative (survey) and qualitative (behavioral observation and interview) data
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- Analyzed data and provided UX suggestions and design guidelines.


## Education
### PhD. in in Architecture with Designated Emphasis in New Media
University of California, Berkeley

### Master of Applied Art in Architecture
National Chiao Tung University

### BA of Architecture in Architecture
Tamkang University


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

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Last updated: 2026-04-05