# Qing Guo

> Product Designer at IKEA

Location: Santa Clara, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/qing

An innovative and sympathetic product designer with expertise in visual communication, illustration, user experience, and design aesthetic. A passionate creative thinker. Always try to engage myself in helping individuals and solving problems in my daily life since young, and it became a motivation to pursue a career in design. Self-motivated problem-solver and team player who thrives in fast-paced, collaborative work environments.

## Work Experience
### Senior Product Designer @ IKEA
Jan 2022 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area

### Product Designer @ IKEA
Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | Mountain View, California, United States

### Product Designer (Founding designer) @ Geomagical Labs
Jan 2018 – Jan 2020 | Mountain View, California, United States
Exploring and creating a future 3D mobile and Web home design experience for IKEA by transforming complex AR and AI-powered technologies into intuitive and entertaining design platforms on multiple devices.
- Collaborate with and support team leads in delivering the highest level of trust-building and strategic counsel through all project designs and interactions.
- Generate concepts for product development focused on usability, visual effects, user experience, human factors, and technology design.
- Define, research, design, prototype, and user testing end-to-end repeatable design processes that help the teams plan, manage and deliver parallel projects.
- Identify team needs with regards to process, tools, documentation, and asset management, driving required changes to make sure designers and developers are working efficiently. 
- Define internal planning methodologies and approach guidelines; facilitate adoption across multiple project teams
- Act as a bridge between Design, Engineering, and Product Management teams, connecting all three groups and ensuring interdependencies are understood and planned for.
- Set and communicate the UI/UX design roadmap, defining top-level milestones and teams’ priorities. Working with Product Managers, and the development team to define priorities and scope for new projects.
- Drive design team deliverables by adjusting the design solutions depending on teams' timelines, assisting with tactical issues, triaging bugs, and communicating product/team status.
- Anticipate bottlenecks, provide escalation management, and articulate risks, trade-offs, and recommend prioritization based on a balance of business needs, technical constraints, and customer impact.

### Visual & Product Designer @ Geomagical Labs
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | San Francisco Bay Area

### Visual/UI Designer @ Atheer
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Mountain View
Work with the UI/UX team to redesign the visual elements and UX of the products on the desktop, mobile and tablet platforms to provide a better experience of the Augmented Reality Management Platform to the world’s leading enterprises by improving the productivity, effectiveness, accuracy, and safety of their workforces, customers, and supply chains. 

Analyze data and previous feedback, review feature improvements requests, do research analysis, have communication with the design team to generate feasible solutions, create lo/hi-fidelity wireframe, design attractive visual elements, prepare assets and file for the engineering team, and implement the design.

### Freelance Industrial & Visual Designer @ Freelance Design
Jan 2015 – Jan 2018
Visual Design Projects
- Create concepts & designs for a broad range of clients.
- Design competitive graphics with specific colors, text, images, fonts, 
   materials, and layouts.
- Take the lead in visualizing, and collaborate with other designers, 
   researchers, and marketing team members.

Industrial Design Projects
- Involved in multiple product designs from ideation, market research, to the 
   final CAD.
- Work independently, collaborate and maintain communication with 
   other designers, researchers, engineers, and marketing team.
- Design creative solutions with detailed consideration of colors, texture, 
   materials, and manufacturing.


- Revise designs according to feedback from clients and team members.
- Handle multiple projects/tasks simultaneously, and meet deadlines.

### Volunteer @ Muttville Senior Dog Rescue
Jan 2016 – Jan 2018 | San Francisco Bay Area


## Education
### Master of Fine Arts (MFA) in Industrial Design
Academy of Art University

### Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) in Industrial and Product Design
Chengdu Academy of Art University


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/qing-guo-2a9628106

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Last updated: 2026-02-23