👋 Hi, my name is Chenyu.
I'm a Senior UX Researcher, Designer, and Strategist with 8 years of full-stack UX experience across the globe 🌏.
My niche is to solve business problems with data and design 📊✨.
I am currently leading Product Research for Converse: Workplace at ETS and TOEFL TestReady. I am also the Producer and Co-host of EPICLE, a Global Ethnography and UX Research Podcast. I’ve had over 50+ UX Design & Research mentees since 2017.
In 2019, I came to Yale School of Management to explore Data and AI Market Research and promote Design Thinking in Business as a peer-elected leader for the Design & Innovation club.
More previously I led the design and research work focusing on Growth & Monetization for Gengo’s (now Lionbridge) AI-powered translation platform. During my time in Japan, I spearheaded the revamp of the travel service platform Compathy, which boasts over 100,000 monthly active users in Japan and was featured in TechCrunch.
On a typical weekend, you’ll find me:
🎭 Exploring San Diego's art scene
🌸 Tending to my small Japanese garden
🔧 DIY-ing home improvements with extensive Reddit research (because user research habits never rest!)
06/2024
2nd Config with colleagues and research communities.
08/2019
Dean Selection, finalist of SOM Orientation Sustainability Challenge.
01/2019
Designed and produced yearbook of Class 2018.
04/2019
Setouchi Art Festival with ICS colleagues.
Local art studios in Tokyo empowering people with Down syndromes to art making made me thought of building community with spirit.
06/15/2014 Walked UCSD 14' Ceremony with my fellow friends.
November, 2013. Visited IDEO, SF with User Experience San Diego (UXSD).
02/2022
Led discovery research and concept testing to award-wining project ideas.
07/2019
Graduated MBA Program with Zemi.
02/2018
Press release for Gengo.AI.
08/20/2015
Worked with F# Music Advertising on metrics platform design.
08/14/2014. Art as a Haven of Happiness at Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum.
Team Se7en. Worked on students' eating expriences and shared great insights on the birth of Grab Grubber.
Beijing Design Week. 09, 2013.
12/2019
Presenting sustainable business design solutions of “Gender Equality“.
10/2018
Interviewed Yamaguchi Kentaro about his concept design for a project designing Aged Care in Japan.
04/2016
Building UX from ground-up at Wanderlust
05/12/2015
Team CCK collaboration with Thrdplace x General Assembly on building a user-to-user platform that formulates communication in volunteering events.
10/31/2014. Being Ida from the awesome Monument Valley.
SoCal UX Camp. Got many inspirations on group communication, and mobile design. .
01/2020
Organizing for Design & Innovation Club Prototyping Workshop
06/2019
Spatial experience design tour of Muji store in Ginza.
11/16/2015
Service Design at Designit Tokyo.
11/14/2014.
Discovery research for Whova project.
07/02/2014. Joined the Product Team of Zhihu as a product design & research intern.
First design notebook ( bought in Design Museum, London) completed on May, 2014. The one I used daily to capture experiences, inspirations and random thoughts.