Hi, I'm Vik
a Manager of Product Design Team
a Product Designer
As a product designer, I strive to learn about user needs, behaviors, and emotions from collecting user data. And I also immerse insights and solutions in product strategies, UX design, and UI Design.
As a design manager, I excel at building team culture, fostering design culture, and helping designers and researchers become better user empathizers while balancing business needs.
I am a creative product designer who loves observing everything and embracing challenges. I possess excellent communication skills for collaborating with cross-functional teams.
Main skills : mentorship, product designer career path, UIUX, qualitative/ quantitative user research, data-driven, A/B testing, methodologies & product strategy.
💪 Skills 💪
🎮 Experience 🎮
Design Manager @ Gogolook
Taiwan, Taipei | 2021/5 ~ Present
Lead the product design team (including 14 members, researchers included) and assisted teams across various product lines (Whoscall, Roo. Cash, JUJI, Message Checker, ScamAdviser, etc.) in different methodologies, covering both 0-to-1 innovative products and product integrate.
Also supported product design, design ops, and the establishment of research mechanisms.
Lead Product Designer @ Gogolook
Taiwan, Taipei | 2020/6 ~ 2021/05
Lead UI, UX, research ,and planning the strategy with PMs for Whoscall BU, and mentored BU's designers.
Senior Product Designer @ Gogolook
Taiwan, Taipei | 2017/3 ~ 2020/6
Lead Whoscall Android product design. Refocus Whoscall's product core value, and reorganize its architecture, optimizing its user experience. Collect and analyze user behavior through lab studies, field visits, ethnography, surveys, benchmark studies, server logs and online experiments.
Innovative new features of phone calling behavior from ideation to final product implementation. Lead Whoscall products' brand illustration style guides and guidelines.
Product Design Mentor / Consultant @ UXY
Remote | 2022/09 ~ Present
Helped members transition to product designers through Design Sprints’ methodologies, teaching key design skills.
Supporting junior designers in overcoming daily challenges and career issues after the transition.
Product Designer @ 8 Interaction
Taiwan, Taipei | 2015/8 ~ 2017/2
Participated in K-Startup Grand Challenge 2016, and won the mentorship of SparkLabs Global Ventures.
Leaded user experience design for Super 8, which is the messaging platform for connecting multi social media. Innovated iBeacon product's service, and defined O2O service design. I designed apps for not only interaction scenarios, but also iBeacon's device management in both app and web platforms.
User Experience Design Intern @ Alibaba Group
China, Hangzhou | 2014/7 ~ 2014/9
Worked with the Alibaba UED team. Lead intern team planed the landing page of the 2014 main product - DMP (Data Management Platform) by user journey, information architecture, visual style, animation and graphics.
🎓 Education 🎓
BFA, Industrial Product Design, Shih Chien University
Taiwan, Taipei | 2011/9 ~ 2015/6
Academy cooperation IoT project with Compal Inc., and won first place in young product design competition. Redesigned Shih Chien University Industrial Design Department’s website.
AA, German, Wenzao Ursuline University
Taiwan, Kaohsiung | 2006/9 ~ 2011/6
Leaded visual design team of German department graduation play, and won first place in visual design competition. Goethe institut German Test B1 (mid level).