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Junjie is a professional product designer, a problem solver, and a story-teller.
He designs products, builds teams, refines strategies, solves problems, and sometimes codes a little bit.
He has designed award-winning products with tens of millions of users.
He’s been at it for almost 20 years 😱 now.
He started with designing professional industrial design software like Alias, and intuitive sketching software like Sketchbook.
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 design processes for best productivity.
He is now leading the UX team in Volvo Cars, APAC.
He has built a team from scratch here.
He just summarized his challenging yet fruitful 2024 with his incridible team.
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 & implemented 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 UX, APAC at Volvo Cars
- Build and lead the UX team from scratch to 30+ talented UX Designers and Researchers, established clear Mission, Vision and Goals.
- Spearhead UX design and strategy for Volvo Cars in APAC region, for both in-car HMI and Mobile Apps.
- Elevate and steer the future of Volvo Cars UX strategy across the global landscape, with localized initiatives and creative breakthroughs in this hyper-competitive market.
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 Consultancy
- Setup digital product strategies for a newly established online travel agency startup (Websites, mobile and weChat apps).
- Plan, implement 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.