# Zifeng (Z) Tian > Sr Lead Designer at 42Dot Location: Santa Clara, California, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/zifeng Passionate UX advocate and Design Director here, using user insights to shape everything from in-car systems to mobile apps. With a knack for leading global teams and building top-notch design systems, my work is all about making tech feel more human, one experience at a time. Ready to redefine digital interactions and make them more intuitive, engaging, and fun! Check my portfolio at www.zifengtian.com. ## Work Experience ### Sr Lead Designer @ 42dot Jan 2025 – Present | Sunnyvale, California, United States ### Design Director @ Telenav Jan 2022 – Jan 2025 | Santa Clara, California, United States • Led a team responsible for the core infotainment system, including Nav, Media, Commerce, and more. • Ensured excellence in all phases of UX work, including research, concepts, prototypes, detailed design, and implementation. • Developed and sold big, cut-through ideas to senior leadership, customers, and beyond. • Built and maintain a design system that is easy to use, understand and iterate. • Co-created a product goal, drove UX strategy, and executed in pursuit of that goal. ### Senior Design Manager @ Telenav Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | Santa Clara, California, United States ### Design Manager @ Telenav Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 | Santa Clara, CA I'm leading the UX design for VIVID, a hybrid, cloud-connected, and personalized in-vehicle infotainment system; I'm also managing the design teams based in Silicon-Valley and China, with an agile development process. I lead the design for multiple programs, building navigation systems for well-known car brands, targeting the global market, including China, Europe, and North America. Those systems normally included Center Stack, Cluster, and Head-Up display, sometimes even the rare seat screens. Telenav had been the top build-in navigation system provider ranked by JD power in North America Market. ### Lead Interaction Designer @ Telenav Jan 2015 – Jan 2019 | Sunnyvale Working in the Auto team, to build navigation system for different brand of cars. ### Product Designer @ CloudOn Jan 2013 – Jan 2015 Owned user on-boarding, doc viewing, communicating, monetization and collaborating flow parts of the product user experience, designed the interaction and interfaces. Produced and tested interaction flows and mocks to make sure they accurately communicate product value to users. Gauged the usability of new and existing products and making constructive suggestions for change. Defined long-term user experience strategies and ensured a consistent and cohesive experience across the whole product on every platforms. Cross-collaborated in a team with product managers and developers. ### Interaction designer @ iAchieve for ETC&GlassLAB Jan 2013 – Jan 2013 Lead user research and pattern analysis, come up with original ideas of data visualization. Build persona, and mental modal. Design the whole app interaction flow, and all the interface. Define the animation and UI pattern. Lead usability tests for our prototype, to make sure the design can be easily understood. Work closely with our clients. Quickly collect all the feedback and iterate the app multiple times. ### Web designer & Artist @ UP+ for ETC&Microsoft Jan 2012 – Jan 2012 | Pittsburgh,PA Understand the requirements from our clients and translate those into product ideas. Lead all brainstorming and presentations until we get approve by our clients. Design the website's site map and UI pattern. ### Interaction Designer @ Carnegie Mellon HCII School Jan 2012 – Jan 2012 This is a project I work with HCI School, we are trying to make an educational game, during this semester, I had made two set of interaction design. Both got really good response, and now I am working on the second one and try to finish it in time. ### Level Designer @ Spring Entertainment for ETC&SevenSpring ski resot Jan 2012 – Jan 2012 We make an app for this resort, it is a game in which the player need to tilt the phone to help a little dog keep balance on a rolling snowball. ### Game designer and modeler @ Carnegie Mellon University - Entertainment Technology Center Jan 2011 – Jan 2012 | Pittsburgh, PA This is a main course of CMU, ETC We made one game prototype every two weeks I am a modeler and designer in every team ### Interaction Designer Intern @ eico design Jan 2011 – Jan 2011 Eico is a very famous interaction design company in China During my internship, I worked in weico team I was in charge of designing interaction flows of some apps and websites I used to help our producer to meet with clients ### Interaction Designer @ Hunan University & Nokia Jan 2010 – Jan 2010 | Hunan, China This is a workshop of Nokia I am a lead designer in my team We build a prototype for Nokia to help business people to find potential customer We win "Top Three" in this workshop ## Education ### Certificate in Management Essentials Harvard Business School Online ### Master of Entertainment Technology in Human Computer Interaction Carnegie Mellon University ### Bachelor's degree in Interaction Design Hunan University ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/zifengtian - Website: https://www.zifengtian.com --- Source: https://flows.cv/zifeng JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/zifeng/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-05