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Junjie is a professional product designer, a problem solver, and a story-teller.
He designs products, solves problems, refines strategies, builds teams, and sometimes codes a little bit.
He has designed award-winning apps with tens of millions of users.
He’s been at it for 16 years now.
He started with designing professional industrial design software like this, and intuitive sketching software like this.
He then started to design for mobile and web since 2009, the year when iPhone 3Gs came out.
He has raised a passion of refining the design processes for best productivity.
He is now leading the UX team in Volvo Cars APAC.
He is building a new team there.
He will be able to talk more about it later.
Before that he worked as Head of Design @ italki
Where he built a new design team. You can check his 2020 recap to learn more about what he achieved there.
In the meanwhile, he also spent some spare time building an online collaboration tool, and at the end of the journey, he wrote a book.
He also designed & coded a new product from scratch.
It's got some cool AI features to automatically put things in order, and give you inspirations in a lot of interesting new ways.
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2021 - now
Head of China UX at Volvo Cars
- to be added
2019 - 2021
Head of Design at italki
- Rebuild the UX/UI design team to translate business strategies, user needs and inputs into design solutions.
- Work with 3rd-party design agencies to form up new branding as well as product design direction.
- Drive innovations in design processes for faster design delivery.
2018 - 2019
Startup and Consultency
- Setup digital product strategies for a newly established OTA startup. (websites, mobile and weChat apps).
- Plan, execute and launch a product from scratch (References.Design)
2016 - 2018
Head of UX at Mildberry
- Lead the design efforts for an online digital platform for (parents of) young kids.
- Lead design-thinking workshops with internal stakeholders and external clients to find best product strategies.
2016
UX Lead at IBM
- Lead designer of multiple business intelligence projects.
- Create project-specific design principles and practical guidelines for internal design teams.
- Participate in design-thinking workshops with customers, clients and/or internal stakeholders.
2007 - 2015
UX Designer then Manager at Autodesk
- Lead designer of Autodesk SketchBook and Pixlr product lines.
- Project and people management of the Digital Arts design team composed by conceptual, user experience, visual designers and and prototypers.