# Ning Xu > Product Designer Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/ning Ning is a Senior Product Designer based in New York, passionate about solving complex problems and designing products that empower users. She has received honorable mentions in the 'Empowering' category at both the IxDA Interaction Conference Awards in Lyon, France, and the World-Changing Ideas Awards by Fast Company. Ning has consulting experience working with corporations and agencies, conducting design workshops and developing design strategies. Her expertise spans hospitality, travel, art, and wellness. She holds an MFA in Interaction Design from the School of Visual Arts in New York and is actively seeking a full-time Product Designer position Specialties: storytelling, interactive prototyping, user research, usability test, wireframes, video editing, user flow, user journey, ethnography, persona, qualitative research, and quantitative research ## Work Experience ### Senior Product Designer @ Toptal Jan 2023 – Present | New York, United States ### Senior Design Consultant @ ZENDA, LLC Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 | New York, United States • Work for the World's best private bank to build a centralized platform for client onboarding, ensuring a seamless experience. • Mentor and onboard new designers, fostering growth and maintaining a cohesive design approach. • Streamline work processes, enhance collaboration among product owners, tech teams, and cross-functional stakeholders, and integrate human-centered design for exceptional user experiences. ### Senior Product Designer @ AMPERSAND.vc Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | Manhattan, New York, United States •Lead design strategy projects to identify user needs and define solutions, and provide secondary research for benchmarks •Transformed research insights into design strategies, adept at incorporating feedback, validation, and interaction design for product development •Participated and assisted in design thinking workshops to train over 120+ executives ### User Experience Designer @ Richard Taittinger Gallery Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | New York, United States • Led redesign of the shopping page and streamlined the check-out experience. • Collaborated directly with clients, from brainstorming through iterative design to prototype creation. • Enhanced E-commerce shopping experience and executed WordPress to Shopify migration ### UX/UI Designer @ Unknown Jan 2018 – Jan 2020 •Uncovered problem-solving opportunities through comprehensive generative and evaluative research and analysis. •Implemented user-centered design strategies to streamline web and mobile app experiences, boosting client conversion rates. ### Graduate Teaching Assistant @ MFA Interaction Design, School of Visual Arts Jan 2016 – Jan 2018 | Greater New York City Area • Assisted with instructors' works on User Research and Design Management classes and responsible communicating with classmates. ### AR/UX Designer/Entrepreneur @ NYC Media Lab Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | Greater New York City Area • Created an AR app (from concept to MVP) in 3 months using agile methods. • Conducted 100 user interviews to validate the market and enhance customer development. • Joined the accelerator program with a 13% acceptance rate and received funding from the Mayor’s Office NYC. ### User Experience Consultant @ The New York Times via School of Visual Arts Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Greater New York City Area • Designed an interactive quiz game to deepen the relationship of New York Times' online users with the news platform and make it part of their daily habit to visit it and meet and interact with its other users. • Provided strategies for game's mechanics and created animation and interactive prototypes for it. • Successfully presented the project at the New York Times headquarters and responded to the feedback from the internal design teams. ### User Experience Consultant @ Google via School of Visual Arts Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | Greater New York City Area • Collaborated with an Interaction Designer from Google to reimagine the future of conversational UI. • Targeted Google’s core service to bridge the gap between Artificial Intelligence and help users minimize the time spent on tedious tasks. Delivered a concept video by utilizing storytelling skills and designing high-fidelity wireframes. ### UX Designer @ Designity Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | Greater New York City Area • Redesigned onboarding flows and delivered 14 wireframes, which were completed within the budget and timeframe. • Improved the user experience of the job searching platform, Designity by collaborating with the stakeholder, front-end developer and producers from all phases. • Completed a solo design project, with features being implemented. ### UX Consultant @ Linute via General Assembly Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 • Achieved and refined user-curated events and interacted with the event feed. • Targeted the desired audience, designed frameworks, and effectively communicated with three cross-functional teams. ## Education ### Master’s Degree in Interaction Design School of Visual Arts Jan 2016 – Jan 2018 ### Communication and Media Studies Columbia University Jan 2014 ### Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) in Communication and Media Studies, Leadership, Teaching English as Second Language University of Minnesota Jan 2009 – Jan 2012 ### Communication in General Harvard University Jan 2013 – Jan 2013 ### Summer Intensive in Interaction Design School of Visual Arts Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 ### General Assembly ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/ningxxxxu - Portfolio: http://www.ningxdesign.com --- Source: https://flows.cv/ning JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/ning/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-30