Han (412) 897-1466 [email protected] User Experience Designer & Researcher hanxue.me

Education Skills

Carnegie Mellon University UX Research Aug 2019 - December 2020 Affinity diagramming / Diagnostic mapping / Contextual inquiry / Masters of Educational Technology and Applied Learning Science Observation / Survey design / Interview / AB testing / User School of Computer Science - Human Computer Interaction Institute modeling / Usability testing / Tableau

UX Design Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications Persona / Journey mapping / Storyboarding / Wireframing / August 2015 - June 2019 Prototyping (lo-fi & hi-fi) / Figma / Sketch / Adobe Creative Suite / B.E. in Information Engineering Whimsical / Balsamiq School of Information and Communication Engineering Programming Arduino IDE / Raspberry Pi / C++ / Python / JavaScript / Verilog Projects HDL / VHDL / HTML / CSS

Research Lead | CMU & Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Capstone CMU | Feb 2020 - Present Researched and designed a prompted reflection intervention targeting social and emotional competencies for 3rd-5th graders. Planned and conducted 30+ semi-structured interviews to better inform UX design. Worked agile and researched into CASEL framework and mainstream taxonomies for SEL, developed instructional content for daily prompts and coping strategies.

UX Designer & Researcher | ARTogether CMU | Jan - May 2020 Researched and designed an interactive social platform for friends in Covid-19 to tour public art together. Designed research for two groups of stakeholders -- art viewers and artists.P lanned and led multiple user testing sessions to reconcile the design decisions.

UX Researcher & Designer | LAUNCH CMU | Aug - Dec 2019 Optimized maker space course and portfolio creation process for a Pittsburgh area high school. Designed a novel, interactive whiteboard/table to help automate the documentation process. Conducted Semi-structured interviews, contextual inquiry, cognitive task analysis, and affinity diagramming to find areas of possible improvement. Delivered a hi-fi prototype and a wizard-of-oz video prototype.

Curriculum Designer | Introduction to Object Oriented Programming CMU | Oct - Dec 2019 Designed and implemented a 2-hour e-learning module for entry-level object-oriented programming. Increased students' performance on post-assessment by an average of 46%. Created and designed a pre-training module with multi-media and contiguity principles for entry-level learners. Increased students’ performance by an average of 11%.

UX Designer & Researcher | Jelly Jelly CMU | Sep - Oct 2019 Designed a responsive website for a bubble tea food truck. Located the pain point of tracking food truck location and combined it with playful character design, brought a vibe of community to the bubble tea brand. Tested, iterated, and delivered a working prototype for both PC and smartphone users. Experience

Research Assistant | E-learning Design Principles CMU | May 2020 - Present Worked with learning engineers on reframing both formative and summative assessments, improved on the feedback system for formative assessment to provide more focused feedback, and redirect student to segmented reading materials.

Product Manager Intern | Baidu IDG (Intelligent Driving Group) Beijing, | Oct 2018 - Apr 2019 Negotiatedw ith automobile manufacturers and designed customized functions to iterate on MapAuto system. Interviewed multiple stakeholders, worked with UX designers and front end developers to design the official website of MapAuto product.