Creativity Matters

Rebecca Jingyi Zhou

#Experience Designer
#Creative Technologist

Psychology-backed designer based in Beijing, China. Previously worked at Alibaba.Inc., Skillshare, Lenovo.
Student at ITP, NYU. Previously at Peking University.

PROJECT

SweetPaw

Experience Design / AR

Creative AR solution to tackle sugar-craving for diabetes patients. Selected for Microsoft Design Expo 2020.
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MagicEarth

Experience Design / Creative Coding

Interactive data visualization screen for the travel festival during internship in Alibaba.Inc.
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Fixar

Experience Design / Mobile

Efficient and transparent facility-maintenance system for universities.
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PLAYGROUND

Creative Coding

Experience Design / Mobile

HTML + CSS
Plain Javascript, jQuery
p5.js, blotter.js, three.js
ECharts.js, D3.js
ml5.js, tensorflow.js, etc.
Processing
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FrontEnd
Dev

Experience Design / Mobile

Node.js, Express.js
Data Structure and Algorithms
Data Analysis and Visualization
Machine Learning Applications
Matlab, SPSS

Fight Against COVID-19

Real-time Coronavirus data dashboard & Live demo of how "social distancing" flattens the curve.

Node.js, Express.js, Nedb, Web-scraping

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Love Calculator

Love Calculator calculates the love compatibility between two names using API.

HTML + CSS, Javascript

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Physical Computing

Experience Design / Mobile

C / C++
Arduino
Eagle
Vectorworks, C4D
Laser cutting, 3D printing, CNC

About Me

Rebecca Jingyi Zhou

I am a Chinese designer and technologist based in Beijing, China. I am passionate about creating user-centered experience with emerging technology. I utilize any kind of technology that suits for the design without limitations.

alibaba inc.

Experience Designer Intern | July - Sept, 2020 | Beijing, China

Designed a geo-fencing service platform for car companies from scratch (UX + UI). Re-designed site selection SaaS platform.

Implemented static data including building, roads, landmarks to the earth model in Three.js. Wrote front-end code for camera animation, static data transition,  fireworks animation, etc. Designed and developed demos for ATOMS platform for Ali-Cloud.

SkillShare Inc.

Product Design Consultant | Feb - May, 2020 | New York, USA

Offered solutions to Skillshare’s audio-content strategy. Designed and conducted competitive analysis, usability testing for design.

Daimler.

Researcher Intern | Aug - Dec, 2018| Beijing, China

Led market research and interviews on China’s game industry, AI, IoT, Chips & Sensors to discover, evaluate and recommend potential start-ups with proper use cases and business models to Daimler (with Daimler Incubator), which resulted in at least 3 collaborations.

Lenovo Research.

UX Design Intern | Mar - June, 2018| Beijing, China

Collaborated with ID, IT and supply chain team to design a smart video-conference assistant (IoT device, PoC Phase). Prototype was highly acknowledged and moved to next phase.
Initiated and wrote heuristic evaluation checklist for IoT products and conducted usability testing for IoT products.

Education

new york university

M.P.S. Interactive Telecommunications Program
Sept, 2019 - May, 2021 | New York, USA

Specialized in product design, design research, hardware prototyping and creative coding.

peking university

B.S. Psychology (with honor)
Sept, 2015 - June, 2019 | Beijing, China

Social-neuroscience track. Specialized in quantitative research, data analysis, experimental design, advanced stats, and programming.

Skillset

design.

A Psychology-Background Designer Who Always Puts Users In The First Place.

User Research.
Interaction Flow.
Wireframing.
Prototyping.
Usability Testing.
#Sketch  #Figma
#InVision  #Flinto
#Principle  #Axure
#Adobe Creative Suite
(Ps, Ai, Pr, Ae, Lr, Id)

#Cinema 4D #Vectorworks

code.

A 4-Year Programmer Who Just Turned Her Interest From Back-End To Front-End.

#HTML+CSS  #Javascript  #jQuery
#Node.js, and more.
#Matlab  #SPSS  #Tableau
#D3.js  #ECharts.js
#C/C++  #Python
#Arduino
#Unity

Get In Touch


Feel free to drop me a line: jz4118@nyu.edu

© Rebecca Jingyi Zhou 2021.