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Hi, I am Wei Kang

XR Designer / UX Designer / Creative Technologist

I am an interdisciplinary interaction designer and serial entrepreneur. I enjoy exploring emotional connections through storytelling, so as to design technology products that make people feel safe, being cared and intimate.

 

Skills

 

VR | AR | MR

Unity, Unreal engine, Spark AR, WebXR,

Arkit, AR Foundation, Adobe Aero

 

Creative Coding

C#, Python, THREE.js, CSS, HTML, P5.js, Arduino

UX | UI

Sketch, Figma, Adobe XD,

Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop

 

Method

Design thinking, UX research, Wireframing, Storyboard, Prototype

3D Modeling

Maya 3D, Blender, Cinema 4D, Marvelous,

Zbrush, Nomad

 

Video Editing

Premiere, Final cut, Adobe Audition

Motion Graphic

After Effect, Procreate

 

PCB & Fabrication

Eagle CAD, PCB Fabrication, Wearable Electronics, Soft circuitry, Assembly

Education

 

Tsinghua University

BFA Fashion and Textile Design

2008.08-2012.05

Parsons School of Design

MFA Fashion Design and Society

2012.08-2013.10

NYU Tisch

Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP)

2019.08-2021.05

Work Experience

 

2020.08 - 2020.10

UX designer / AR developer Microsoft Design Expo 2020

My team's work represents NYU ITP to participate in Microsoft Design Expo 2020 and posted on the official Microsoft website. In the team, my job is to interview people with diabetes, refine needs, product construction, AR development, prototype implementation, and testing, and post-production video production.

Design Expo Link :

https://expo.microsoft.design/

Project Link :

http://sweetpaw.info/

2018.10 - 2019.07

Design Lead @ YouRu Education

Led an education company build online course websites, conclude branding, service, and UX/UI design.

Website Link :

https://vip.yradc.com/

2017.04 - 2018.09

Design Lead @ ZengYanJinTian Culture Co., Ltd

Provided museum store product design solutions for more than 30 A-class museums in China. Clients include The Palace Museum, Nanjing Museum, Shenyang Palace Museum, Sichuan Museum, etc. Among them, the design project for Sansu Ci won the 2019s Most popular Cultural and Creative Travel Product Design Award (Sichuan District).

2015.03 - 2017.02

Co-Fonder @ Jiazhijihe New media & Tech Co., Ltd

Our start-up established a contact platform for Chinese start-ups and investors, and provide legal, financing, and tax services. In this project, my job is to build multi-channel platforms, including websites, social media, and apps, and design VI for this project.