WEI-HSIN LAI Industrial Designer User Experience Designer [email protected] 480-295-1313 www.weihsinlaidesign.com Rochester, NY Kodak Alaris Inc. (Rochester, NY) Interacon Design Intern Responsible for the UX role of the value discovery of 3D prinng project. Facilitated the team (1 product owner and 1 technical engineer) to familiarize with the value discovery tools and conducted the user research, including recruing 14 parcipants, preparing interview protocol, interviewing, collecng and analyzing data. Planned product discovery workshops and idenfied product opportunies for the future product development. Peter Solomon Design (Savannah, GA) Freelance Industrial Designer Contributed to the phase of concept generaon and idea visualizaon with the format of hand sketching and digital rendering for the project of TWITCH keyboard design. Working Class Studio (Savannah, GA) Product Design Intern Selected to the limited edion product group and designed new products in the home decoraon market. Kinghan Technology Co., Ltd (Taipei, Taiwan) Graphic User Interface Designer Designed the graphic user interface (visual comps, color theme, typeface) of the emergency alarm system for Southern Taiwan Science Park and Powerchip Semiconductor Corp. 06.2012 ~ 07.2012 03.2010 ~ 05.2010 05.2006 ~ 07.2007 04.2014 ~ Present EXPERIENCE EDUCATION PUBLICATIONS Master of Fine Art in Industrial Design Master of Art in Design Management Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, GA 09.2007 ~ Present Bachelor of Arts in Adversing & Public Relaons Minored in Applied Art (Graphic Design) Fu Jen Catholic University, Taipei, Taiwan 09.2001 ~ 06.2005 Ren design: empowering people to create social impact in perspecve of Confucian philosophy, Thesis (M.F.A.) Savannah, Ga.: Savannah College of Art and Design 03.2013 Design for Good: Empowering People to Create Social Impact in the Perspecve of Confucian Philosophy IDSA's educaon papers gallery, hp://www.idsa.org / 08.2012 Mul-funconal Snow Pusher Design with PromoZone Chicago, MI Modified the current structure of cargo trailer design and created the concept of mul-funconal snow pusher. 12.2013 ~ 03.2014 Netbook UI Design with Freescale Semiconductor Ausn, TX Conducted the contextual research and Developed the UI wireframe and prototype of Netbook design, especially for the non-touch screen. The result was presented in Computex Taipei 2009. 03.2009 ~ 05.2009 Selected by the IDSA and presented in the Poster Session of Educaon Symposium of the Internaonal IDSA Conference, Boston, MA 08.2012 Lighng Design was selected as the promoon material for SCAD, such as the cover of school calendar and website 01.2010 The Intelligent Hand - MACEF Design Award Massimo Marni 2010 – Shortlist (Organized by designboom, in collaboraon with MACEF) 01.2010 2009 Incheon Internaonal Design Awards - Shortlist (Organized by designboom, in collaboraon with Incheon City, Korea) 09.2009 2010 SCAD Sidewalk Arts Fesval (group session) - Second Place 04.2010 2009 SCAD Sidewalk Arts Fesval (Individual session) - First Place 04.2009 PROJECTS HONORS Hand Sketching, 2D & 3D Digital Rendering, Rapid Prototype, Manufacturing Process, Business Plan, Strategy Development, Persona and Scenario development, GUI Design, Usability Tesng. Quantave Research: Survey design, Stascal analysis, SPSS, A/B Tesng Qualitave Research: Contextual inquiry, affinity diagram, Interview, Focus Group, Observaon, Cultural Prob, Usability Tesng, Journal Studies. Mandarin (Nave) English (Fluent) Japanese (Qualified for the third level test) Cantonese (Familiar) SCAD Honors Award & Incenve Scholarship 03.2013 ~ Skills Cellphone Design with Bmobile Savannah, GA Designed a family product, including a bar phone, a qwerty phone, and a smartphone, for the low-end market in South America. 09.2013 ~ 11.2013 2009 American Craſt Council Show Balmore, MD Selected by the jury organized by the professors from furniture, jewelry, and fiber design, to exhibit my lighng design in 2009 ACC Show. 09.2008 ~ 02.2009 Microsoſt Office: Word, Excel, PowerPoint Adobe Creave Suite CC: Illustrator, InDesign, Photoshop, Dreamweaver, Aſter Effects 3D Program: Alias, 3D Max, Maya, Keyshot, Solidworks Professional Design Computer Soſtware Research Language