User Experience Designer Resume

1. OBJECTIVE
An experienced and results-driven UX Designer. My passion lies in creating successful product and positive user
experience by using my Human-Computer Interaction expertise and design skills .
Wenzhu Zou User Experience Designer
jewelzou@hotmail.com Driving License: Dutch, class B
0031 645 119 285 Nationality: Chinese (EU Permanent
Residence Permit. Labour freely
www.wenzhuzou.com permitted.
EXPERIENCE
User Experience Designer at NSPYRE, NL
High Level Interaction Design
• Performed user research activities to help clients understand the industrial
trends and market’s needs;
• Gathered user insights and interpreted them into high-level interaction
design which is represented mainly through Axure prototype;
• Created the sample visual design to present a direction for the future
visual style.
Mobile / Web Application Design
• Acquired the client’s requirements and interpreted to initial design through
sketches;
• Came up the optimized workflow and presented the interaction design via
wireframe;
• Created visual designs which reflected the client’s branding style;
• Supported development team to implement the application in HTML &
CSS or XML according to the project requirement.
To know details of projects, please see the portfolio http://wenzhuzou.com/portfolio
User Experience Researcher at Philips Research, NL
• Successfully led and collaborated with multidisciplinary teams around
Europe to design and develop high-tech Philips kitchen appliances in
Consumer Lifestyle field.
• Designed Smart Kitchen Assistant (a web application) by performing User-
Centered Design process from sketching, prototyping to usability testing
validating its usability.
Usability Engineer in FEI Electron Microscopy Company, NL
• Specialized in improving the usability of the electron microscopes’ user
interface and defining the design guidelines for the subsequent project.
• Performed the User-Centered Design methods to the overall iterative
processes, designed the new features of UI and validated the design
through usability testing.
Technique skills
Persona & scenarios
Questionnaires/survey design
A/B Testing
Usability testing
Contextual inquiry
Focus groups
Prototyping
HTML5 & CSS
Tools
Languages
English (fluent)
Chinese (native)
Dutch (competent)
04/2013--Current02/2011--04/201202/2011--04/2012
Photoshop
Dreamweaver
Premiere
Illustrator
InDesign
Axure

2. UI Designer in Helantong website, NL
• In charge of designing work of Helantong website (the predecessor of
outpie.com) at its preliminary phase, including site branding, creation of
illustrations and animations and defining style guides;
• Together with the developers built the website in HTML&CSS.
EDUCATION
Professional Doctorate in Engineering of User-System Interaction
(USI)
Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands
PUBLICATION: W. Zou, T. Scherini, P.Melo, T. van Craenendonck, M. Kaptein, Enhancing the
Sleeping Quality of Partners Living Apart, DIS10 Designing Interactive Systems 2010, Arhus,
Denmark, August 2010.
Awards: the Computer graphic work “Underwater City” obtained the silver award of “Eindhoven
in the Eyes 2010” Chinese Design Competion in the Netherlands, 2010
Master of Science in Computer Engineering
Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
Academic Honor: Philips Scholarship
PUBLICATION: W. Zou, M. Janic, R. Kooij, F. Kuipers, On the availability of networks, In Proc. of
the Broadband Europe 2007 Conference, Antwerp, Belgium, 3-6 December 2007
Bachelor of Science
Nanjing University of Science and Technology, China
Soft skills
Strong work ethic
Interpersonal skills
Problem solving
Time management
Presentation skills
Communication skills
Stakeholder management
Teamwork
Hobbies
Photography
Graphic design
Video editing
Diving (PADI certificate)
Cosplay
01/2008—10/200810/2008—10/201009/2005--07/20072001--2005