# Michelle Gao

> UX/UI • Product Designer

Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/michellegao

Hi, thank you for visiting my LinkedIn!
I am a UI/UX designer who specialized in creating user-friendly, functional, and beautiful digital interfaces. I am always keen to grow, learn, and try something new. Helping clients to achieve their goals through user experience and user interface design is my passion. I believe good design is creating feelings, not pixels.

Skills:
UX Research | Information Architecture | Usability Testing | Design Thinking | Sketching | Wireframing | Prototyping | Illustration | UI Design | Visual Design

Tools:
Figma | Sketch | InVision | Illustrator | InDesign | Adobe After Effects

Coding:
PHP, MySQL, JavaScript, HTML, CSS

## Work Experience
### Product Designer • UX/UI @ MSCI Inc.
Jan 2022 – Present | San Francisco, California, United States
• Participate in design-thinking exercises to break through organizational silos and collaboratively solve complex design challenges. 
• Design and maintain the components, UI patterns, and documentation for the MSCI design system and component library.
• Write documentation and usage guidelines that teach designers and engineers how to use components and patterns.

### Senior UX Designer @ Gallardo Labs
Jan 2021 – Jan 2022
• Conduct user needs evaluations by participating and contributing to interviewing, field research, competitor research, and journey mapping. 
• Participate in collaborative team and client workshops to explore and define the product vision that balances customer needs with business goals, market viability, and technical feasibility
• Present design decisions to internal and external stakeholders

### Product Designer • UX/UI @ SnapCheck
Jan 2020 – Jan 2021
• Conduct user research and competitive audits to understand current product issues
• Work closely with fellow designers to translate design research and product requirements into wireframes and mockups using Figma as well as other standard design tools
• Cross-functional communication with other designers, engineers, and stakeholders
• Create the detailed UI components, design systems for the development handoff

### UX/UI Designer - Corporate Sponsored Project @ Volkswagen Group of America Innovation and Engineering Center California (IECC)
Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 | San Francisco Bay Area
• Cross-functional communication with other people from the
industrial design team, interior design team, and stakeholders
• Understand the user pain point and proved the design solution to
improve the user experience

### Arrival’s flight Team Lead @ San Francisco International Airport
Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | San Francisco Bay Area
• Communicated expectations, assignments, and responsibilities clearly and professionally. Remained self-motivated with the ability to work independently and in a team environment
• Coordination & Leadership in delegating tasks, scheduling to a team of 5 individuals

### Web Designer @ RB Gallery
Jan 2016 – Jan 2018 | Millbrae
• Managed design of dynamic widgets, focused on web information bar and advertising
• Developed illustrations and other designs using software
• Analyzed departmental documents for distribution and filing
• Designed catalogue, ensuring final graphics and layouts are accurate, visually appealing and meet customer/company standards
• Uploaded graphics to appropriate file locations, systems or portals

### Design Assistant @ Nathan Shapira Design Archive
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | San Francisco, California, United States


## Education
### Master's degree in Interaction & UI/UX Design
Academy of Art University
Jan 2019 – Jan 2021

### Bachelor's degree in Industrial and Product Design
San Francisco State University
Jan 2015 – Jan 2018

### Graphic Design
City College of San Francisco
Jan 2012 – Jan 2015


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/michelle-yuan-gao
- Portfolio: https://www.michelleygao.com

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Last updated: 2026-03-25