# Ying Zhang

> Staff UX Designer | Design Manager

Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/yingzhang

An experienced user experience designer with track records of driving product design, planning product solutions with cross-functional stakeholders,  building prototypes from low to high fidelity and conducting usability engineering. 

A passionate builder who would like to deliver beautiful products to people who live in a world that has been changed by technology every day.

## Work Experience
### UX Design Manager @ Cohesity
Jan 2022 – Present

### Staff UX Designer @ Cohesity
Jan 2020 – Jan 2022

### Senior UX Designer @ Cohesity
Jan 2019 – Jan 2020

### Senior User Experience Designer @ EMC
Jan 2012 – Jan 2019 | Santa Clara, Untied States
· Led and launched design of DD Virtual Edition, first cloud-based disaster recovery management tool of DataDomain.  Planned product solutions by closely working with engineers and product managers to leverage feasibility, usability, and business values; drove UX vision, created workflows and story maps; delivered, communicated and demonstrated design via wireframes and high-fidelity prototypes;

·Led design of 2 products under DataDomain which allowed customers to increase elasticity and scalability of secondary data on cloud. Created a minimum viable product by collaborating with engineer and product teams; defined a consistent interaction pattern and visual language across products; managed agile process with different development teams to ensure successful delivery; executed design from information architects to interactive prototypes;

·Conducted 60 Usability tests in EMC WORLD in 4 years and ran 20 contextual inquiries in fields, resulting in incremental enhancement of user experience and GUI adoption.

### Intern as a User Experience Designer @ Bank of America
Jan 2012 – Jan 2012 | Greater Pittsburgh Area
Sponsored by Bank of America and guided by Carnegie Mellon University, the aim of this intern project was to explore how banking and finance-related activities could be translated into an interactive television and mobile experience for households.  I was working in a 5-person team to lead user research and user experience.  I drove the delivery of one user research report, one design report and a coded prototype on iPad and TV to our customers.


## Education
### M.S in Human-Computer Interaction
Carnegie Mellon University

### M.S in Learning Science and Technology
University of Pennsylvania

### B.A in Chinese Language and Literature
East China Normal University


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/ying-zhang-3b041727
- GitHub: https://github.com/Yaeno
- Portfolio: https://codepen.io/Yaeno/

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Last updated: 2026-03-25