About Me

As a Product and UX designer, I am passionate about crafting a user’s experience around a product and being a part of the team behind the physical design of it. I enjoy the creative side, working from the ground up to put together sketches, turning them into models for product testing, and building the final product.

I know how to determine a product’s target direction, develop models that fit its individual needs, work with factories to physically create the product, complete tests to see how it works, make improvements, and deliver a finalized and improved product.

I also love how product and UX design are ways to solve problems, finding the target of what customers need, communicating ideas with team members, crafting a better and more optimized user experience, and putting together or improving a product that can make major changes in a variety of industries.

Experience

UX Design Bootcamp Trainee

EC Design School / Taipei, Taiwan

Mar 2024 - Jul 2024

Applied UX design thinking to create user-centered solutions, delved into user research to understand and address user needs and behaviors, employing interviews, surveys, and usability testing methods.

Exhibit Drafting Engineer

Boss Display / Columbus, Ohio

Sep 2022 - Apr 2023

CAD Drafting Engineers support the fabrication of new interactive exhibits and structures by creating accurate 3D Solidworks models, construction drawings, and CNC mill files. Drafting Engineers coordinate with Project Managers, Designers, CNC operators, Cabinet Makers & Exhibit Fabricators, Metal Fabricators, Painters, Outside Vendors, and other fellow Drafters throughout this process.

Designer

Auburn University / Auburn, Alabama

Jan 2021 - May 2022

Collaborated with clients throughout Alabama and Florida, including Fret Haus, Innovation Portal, and the Marine Discovery Center to develop products, proposing potential solutions for design optimization, resolving challenges, and providing improvements.

UX/UI Course Trainee

EC Design School / Taipei, Taiwan

Aug 2020 - Dec 2020

Built highly functional web applications using JavaScript, HTML, and CSS, working closely with UX and product teams to define visual and functional requirements.

Product Designer

Burren College of Art / Ballyvaughn, Ireland

Jan 2020 - Apr 2020

Collaborated with students at Burren College of Art to design and manufacture bookshelf for college while learning welding techniques and gaining workshop experience.

Contact

Email: briank9960@gmail.com
Linkedin: Brian Kuo

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