YI CAO
[email protected]
917.854.9031
UX/UI Design
Visual Design
yicaodesign.com
Experience &
2012 - Now
NBCUniversal
(New York)
2011 - 2012
NBCUniversal
(New York)
2011
The Brooklyn
Brothers
(New York)
2011
DoubleSpace
(New York)
2007-2011
(New York)
2004-2006
China Merchants Bank
(Shanghai, China)
2001-2004
(Shanghai, China)
As a passionate designer, my experience spans from
print design and brand identities, to user experience
design for mobile and web services. My unique blend
of front-end-development knowledge and experience
with financial clients strengthen my skills to create
dynamic UI/UX designs for site users. This allows me
to drive results to the companies’ bottom line and
empower my team with cutting-edge solutions in
technology and design.
Education
Courses & Training
UX/UI Designer
Front-End Development
Projects Included: Comcast, CNBC, Universal Studios, Drupal 7,
Sprout.
NBCUniversal 2014
Specialize in UX research, wireframes, flows, visual design and
QA for desktop and mobile experiences. Provide user-centric
interfaces based on product user stories/story boards. Promote
usability best practices and guidelines. Work proactively with
product planning, program management, development and
marketing teams to meet networks needs.
NBCUniversal 2014
UI/Visual Designer
Rally and Jira Training
Drupal 7 Training
NBCUniversal 2013
Reponsive Web Design
NBCUniversal 2012
Projects Included: Syfy, Olympic Games, TVEverywhere, Social
Media, Game App, etc.
Brainstormed, pitched and created web, mobile and App
projects. Designed for a wide variety of company needs,
initiatives and partnerships that drive/grow site traffic and
quality followers. Attended daily collaboration/scrum calls with
web developers (local and overseas) to ensure all projects were
accurately coded against and released on time.
Language
Visual Designer
Skills & Software
Projects Included: NBC Sports, New Era
Chinese
★★★★★
English
★★★★★
Conceptualized and formulated the scope, style and tone of
design projects. Grew brand recognition through intelligent
design, creative and dynamic use of digital technology. Took
ideas from concept to final implementation.
UX
Visual/UI Designer
Code
Projects Included: Fashion, Finance, Non-profit
HTML, CSS, SASS
Collaborated with multidisciplinary teams in creative problem
solving. Developed a living Identity System to ensure visibility
in print and digital is uniform, clear and consistent across all
environments.
Software and Application
Graphic Design, BA
Other Skills
Fashion Institute of Technology
Visual Design
Typography
Strategy
Corporate Identity
Consumer Research - Credit Card Center
Collected and analyzed research, industry and client data for
the business development team.
Business Marketing, BS
Shanghai University of Engineering Sciences
Information Architecture,
Interaction Design, User Research,
Quality Assurance
Adobe Creative Suite, Sublime, Github,
Jira, Rally, Microsoft Office