Surong Ruan

Surong Ruan

Surong Ruan

Design meaningful things

I push for innovative solutions for complex design problems in healthcare, VR and AEC industry. During the whole product design lifecycle, I take initiatives to simplify and humanize designs, and have worked with multiple startup teams to launch products into market.

LinkedIn Portfolio

2020 — NowIntuitiveSr Interaction Designer

2020 — Now

Sunnyvale

Working on service designs to enable providers to deliver high quality care to patients

2018 — 2019Qventus, IncSr. Product Designer

2018 — 2019

San Francisco Bay Area

Designed the patient board for care coordination which became a top selling product

Lead mobile communication app and nudge design to to enable behavior change

Collaborated with designers on design system and shipped mobile redesign

2016 — 2018Jaunt VRSenior UX Designer

2016 — 2018

San Francisco Bay Area

Design the pipeline of tools and rendering services for VR content creators

Deliver onboarding design of rendering platform and improved portal UX

Prototyped VR player for creator preview and review in headsets

Lead design projects of publishing and analytics services for VR creators

2014 — 2016AutodeskSenior UX Designer

2014 — 2016

San Francisco, CA

Lead interaction design and prototype large-scale 3D web application

Design navigation framework with in-canvas user interface and flow diagram

Built hi-fi prototype of contextual help patterns and installation experience

Manage UI Framework projects to deliver consistent components and patterns

2013 — 2014InContext SolutionsUX/UI Designer

2013 — 2014

Lead design of a SaaS platform for virtual store simulation (ShopperMX)

Coordinated cross-team efforts to build a OOCSS style guide

Designed marketing research modules and visualized data with D3.js library

Conducted guerrilla and remote testing with clients to iterate design solutions

Education

2011 — 2012

University of Michigan - School of Information

Master of Science

2011 — 2012

2007 — 2011

Tsinghua University

Bachelor of Science

2007 — 2011