ABOUT
Hi! I am Ivan. I am a Taiwanese student studying in Biomedical Science at The Chinese University of Hong Kong. The two most important things in my life are photography and music. I consider them to be the approaches to know people, cultures, stories in our daily life. After discovering myself for few years, I realized I am not a scientific person. And I accidentally came across the field I would like to devoted to — user experience design. As a science student, I keep adjusting my mindset with design thinking and learning some subjects related to user experience design like service design. Currently, I am pursuing opportunities to acquire more professional knowledge of user experience design in the both academic and industrial aspect.
3 FACTS ABOUT ME
I consider myself...
COOPERATIVE
As the leader of the HSNU team in iGEM competition, which is a bioengineering competition held by MIT, I realized the importance of how to play a good member in a team and how to deal with interpersonal relationship properly.
SELF-INITIATED
I like to take the first step in both my academics and daily life. As I am pursuing a user experience (UX) career currently, I manage my spare time learning UX-related knowledge myself. With this proactive attitude, I am always open to the challenges in my studies and daily life.
OPEN-MINDED
I reckon myself a multidisciplinary person, which helps me stay open-minded all the time. By cooperating with people from diverse background, I realized the importance of being open-minded. Listening and respecting others' ideas make me learn lots of knowledge from different field and establish lots of network with people.
UX GALLERY
I only had one real-world project with a biotech start-up so far and I am looking for more opportunities to gain experiences. Below are the project and exercise I did.
BIOTECH START-UP WEBSITE REDESIGN
I redesigned the website for a biotech start-up that I collaborated with during the summer program at Keck Graduate Institute in the United States. I have addressed several pain points of their current website and created this prototype as the redesigned website in order to provide a clear call-to-action, brand image, navigation, and contact channels for customer engagement.
FINANCIAL APP EXERCISE
This is a self-initiative exercise to practice the upcoming prototype software, Figma. I also addressed some pain points in the current financial apps and combined the financial record function with the fast payment system into one application.
"You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future."