Mentorship Sessions In 10 Countries

100 Mentorship Sessions

5000 Mentorship Minutes

150 Mentorship Sessions

Speaker

I was the keynote speaker and a judge for the UXplore event. 

Judge

Mentor

Bachelor's degree in Design

Design Mentor

Joined Alumi.design (formally ecudesigncareers) as co-founder. Our goal is to bridge the gap between design education and the creative industry. We help design students to connect with their alumni working in the industry. We host monthly events to invite alumni to share their experience in the industry.

Co-Founder & Mentor

Mentoring early-stage designers to help them improve their portfolios and interview skills. Sharing my experience working as a sole designer in startups, being an introvert in tech, how to improve designer skills. 
https://adplist.org/mentors/ryan-yao

I built a collection of Slack communities for designers. Currently lists 170 communities and gains an average of 2.5k unique viewers each month. https://designerslack.community

Maker and Curator

Speaking

Student Portfolio Review at DesCan 2022 Launch Conference
Nov 2022

UX Design Portfolio Best Practices: Do’s and Don’ts at devfest 2022
Nov 2022

The Importance Of Diversity For The Design Community at BeMore Festival
Sept 2022

I’m a Product Designer in the health care industry with Ryan Yao on UX Untamed Podcast
Aug 2022

IRL: Summer with VDC, Getting Into Design Panel
July 2022

From Mentee to Mentor on ADPlist
Jun 2022

Breaking Barriers In Healthcare Product Design on ADPList
Mar 2022

Mandarin-speaking panel talks on ADPList
新手设计师入门与求职技巧 UX设计师北美职场沟通与合作技巧
Nov/Dec 2021

Land a job across the globe on ADPList
Part I Part II
Oct/Nov 2021

Design Key Panel on VXP Protothon 2021
Aug 2021

Working at startups as a UX Designer on UX Untamed Podcast
Apr 2021

Panel Talk Vol.1 on ECU Design Career
Dec 2020

Hosting

IRL Vancouver Mandarin Designer Meetup
温哥华中文设计师沙龙
Jan 2023

Hosts regular events on Alumi Design
2021-2022

Mandarin-speaking panel talks on ADPList
UX设计师北美职场晋升经验 北美设

Speakers and Hosts

Mentor students from DesignLab, providing feedback on their portfolio, interview skill, and career knowledge.

Design fellow at first Coho Beyond Senior Track

Design Fellow

•	Redesigned Curative’s COVID-19 test booking website to increase 20% more conversation on booking rate
•	Kept improving the booking website to make sure it’s accessible to millions of visitors every day
•	Built a UI component library in Figma and helped out developers to maintain Storybook components
•	Worked along with user researchers, PMs to manage and define product requirements documents for all of our projects
•	Designed new flows for Curative’s testing site management software to support new services and high demand

Product Designer

Hosting Designing Community, a podcast for people interested in how community founders build their designer communities.

Podcast Host

Teaching designers how to land their job. Sign up for the waitlist at https://uxjetpack.com

Founder and Educator


- Worked as the solo designer to design and build new features for a SaaS product, while maintaining its style guide
- Designed, developed (HTML&CSS) and shipped many websites, including two online marketplace websites
- Designed marketing and branding materials for both clients and our company
- Worked with the copywriter to complete content for websites

- Designed and shipped marketing websites for a variety of clients
- Designed social media marketing materials for both clients and Cucumber Marketing

Web Graphic Designer

- Redesigned the new student portal site based on the needs of stakeholders
- Implement the new design into the live site with HTML&CSS

Ryan Yao

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