Vanae Pham
Professional Network: http://www.linkedin.com/in/vnnpham

Experience: Hybrid Designer & UX University Instructor (Visual, Interaction, User Research & Prototyping)
Platforms: Mobile, Android, iPhone, Tablet, Wearables, TV and Responsive Web
Current tools​: Sketch, Principle

Facebook Menlo Park, CA  (Contract)
Product Designer (Data Tools) 2017 - current
Projects: Daiquery, Unidash and Anomaly: Take broad, conceptual ideas and turn them into something valuable for diverse technical and non-technical audiences 

• Design information dense flows and experiences that are simple, elegant, and efficient 
• Contribute to high-level strategic decisions with the rest of the product and executive teams for both visual and interaction design aspects 

Google, Mountain View, CA www.google.com
Interaction Designer (Data Visualization) 2016 - 2017

• Interaction design for Data Sites, an internal Google tool used to manage complex dashboards for sales, eng, PMs, directors and admins.
• Data visualization for web, using ACUX and material patterns 
• Design and collaborate with teams in Zurich, Irvine and more 

Yahoo,  Sunnyvale, CA (Contract) - 2016
UI/UX Designer (Search & Commerce) May 2016 - October 2016

• Interaction designer for ​Gemini mobile ads​ and video ads within mobile stream
• Gemini is an internal platform that helps business create ads & track conversion rates
• Design user flows, wireframes for dynamic product ads for Yahoo & Polyvore 
  
  

Google, Mountain View, CA www.google.com
UI/UX Designer (Shopping Search) 2014 - 2015

• Concept designs shared with high value business and dev partners (Directors, VPs at other companies) 
• Culmination of work approved and staffed for 2016 in review by Shopping VPs
• Highlighted in VP-level conversations with external partners for future of Shopping
• Launched: Both mobile/desktop hashtag search, #mindonhulu
• Launched: Mobile only bold annotations for local
• Launched: Desktop expander channeladvisor, search engine land
• Impact: Fixes the revenue loss due to the original launch

 
YouTube, San Bruno (Contract)
UI/UX Designer (Data Visualization) 2014 - 2015

• Designed visual infographics, analytics, data visualization for web and mobile 
• Mentor and train new production designers and created production process 
• Launched: ​Sentiment analysis​ for developers, visualization data analytics 
• Launched: ​Community guidelines​, responsive web 
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Samsung Mobile Mspot, Palo Alto, CA http://www.samsung.com/us/showcase/milk/
Senior Designer & Product Innovator (Music Products) 2014

• User research on users that wear watches & fitness wearables 
• User research on meaningful animations/transitions for mobile devices
• ​Impact: Increase in users after user testing solutions and meaningful animations

Yahoo!, Sunnyvale, CA CA www.yahoo.com
Senior UI/UX Mobile Designer (Mobile & Emerging Products) 2012 – 2013

• Yahoo! Time Traveler optimizing for iPhone 5, launched January 2013.
• Designing mobile consumer facing user interaction models, workflows and user interfaces


• Developing high level and/or detailed storyboards, create mockups and prototypes to effectively communicate interaction

Projects:
Yahoo! Time Traveler: (impact: featured in the Apple store)
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/yahoo!-timetraveler/id527349170?mt=8
Yahoo! Autos –responsive web (impact increase 36% in users)
Flickr: Android app design user member sign up
Yahoo! Answers mobile visual and interaction design
Yahoo! Search iOs app redesign
Yahoo! Travel –responsive web

Academy of Art University, (Part time) San Francisco, CA www.academyart.edu
UI/UX MFA Graduate Instructor 2011 – ongoing

• Impact: 100% of my students are employed as junior designers & internships after graduation from their thesis projects. Companies including: Adobe, Jawbone, Walt Disney, Benefit Cosmetics, Hewlett Packard, and more.
• Lead graduate students on developing ideas for web, mobile and tablet UX/UI designs on best practices and responsive web.
• Write lesson plans, organize activities and agendas to teach MFA graduate students on developing their final thesis for graduation.

User experience lessons includes: Info graphics, how to represent complex information visually, design sketch exploration, low fidelity wireframes, high fidelity prototypes, writing annotations/specs, sitemaps, workflows, user task scenarios, writing moderator guides for user testing and guiding students to make design decisions based on UX industry best practices.

Wells Fargo, San Francisco, CA www.wellsfargo.com
Lead Interaction Designer (UX Team) 2010 – 2012​

• Collaborate and present with a team of 40 people, which includes the business team, business analysts, engineers, QA and content writers to develop an online application.

• Lead and manage junior/mid level designers work tasks and project direction.
• Facilitate project communication across a multidisciplinary team through all phases and product lifecycle, from initial explorations through final design.

Kaiser Permanente, Oakland, CA www.kaiserpermanente.org
Web Prototyper/Interaction Design (UX Team) 2009 – 2010

• Impact: Trained business analysts and other designers in prototyping their wireframe ideas
• Create high fidelity prototypes and simulation mockups to communicate with stakeholders and usability testing
• Create consumer templates for prototyping and user testing

• Software: iRise, Visio, Morae
  
  

Lightmaker Group    San Francisco, CA    www.lightmaker.com
User Interface Designer 2008

• Competitive Analysis, personas, marketing research reports
• Evaluated functionality through usability testing, reporting and analysis
• Software: Flash, Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign
  
  

Freelance Clients 2006-2008
FoundHealth Sunnyvale, CA www.foundhealth.com
Juice Beauty San Rafael, CA www.juicebeauty.com
Huckleberry Youth Programs, San Francisco, CA
Senior Home Care, Austin, Texas
Synergy Healthcare Group, Baton Rouge, LA
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Education
Academy of Art University San Francisco, CA
Master in Fine Arts, Concentration: Computer Arts New Media (Interactive Design and Web Usability) 2008
Graduated with honors

Louisiana State University (LSU) Baton Rouge, LA
Bachelor of Art and Design Major: Concentration: Graphic Design 2006

Skills and Specialties
Creative: Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Fireworks, Sketch
Prototyping: iRise, Axure, Just in Mind, Principle, Flash Action script, Dreamweaver, HTML, CSS, XML
Information Architecture: Omnigraffle, Visio