About

Tongfang Sun

I am a UX designer and researcher graduated from University of Washington, Seattle in Human Centered Design & Engineering (HCDE) and Statistic double major. Inspired by my professors, Kate Starbird and Tom Furness, my work is more focus on quant + quali UX researches, combining traditional qualitative research methods into data analysis and machine learning.

I previously interned or worked in Airbnb, Siemens, and Ubi-Interactive. Right now, I am reading my master degree in HCDE. Meanwhile, I also help my professor, Jan Spyridakis, with Amazon Seller Central Research.

I also wrote my work feelings in Medium and published academic paper in HCI conferences. In my spare time, I love sports, reading, traveling, drawing, and meditation.

email: tongfs@uw.edu

Experience

 Product Design Intern, Facebook, Seattle

• Working on Facebook Marketplace Design project from user research to finalprototypes end to end for the global market.

 User Experience Intern, Airbnb San Francisco

• Designed new Airbnb Explore 2.0 payment prototype for Chinese market based on Airbnb
• Design Language System (DLS) from brainstorm to hi-fi prototype. Released with new Airbnb version in Dec, 2017.
• Conducted 4 groups user research for evaluating the new prototype’s usability.

UX Designer & Researcher Amazon Seller Central

• Designed the Amazon Seller Central contextualized interfaces
• Create A/B Testing for current Amazon Seller Central to quantify user preferences.
• Conduct usability evaluation of comparable interface design.

UX Designer & Researcher   Siemens Healthineer, New York

• Created style guidelines to ensure consistency in user experience and visual design for Google Glass AR Industry project within three design cases.
• Used experimental research method to quantify AR's benefits comparing with Google Glass, Epson Glass and tablet platform in real industrial use cases.
• Got reward from Siemens Business team and presented the the App Tool in RSNA' 16 Annual Meeting in Chicago.

Designer & Front-end Developer   Ubi-Interactive, Seattle, WA

• Designed the prototyped of the Augmented Reality Interface for Ubi-Interactive software within four iterations (Version 3 - 6).
• Designed and implemented the Ubi and its e-Commerse Website.
• Got Angle Investment from Microsoft Kinect, increased the users to 10,000 and got good design feedback from users.

User Experience Researcher   Google, Seattle, WA (Capstone)

• Designed and created usability research for Google Gloud Monitoring based on survey and secondary research.
• Discovered usability issues and user frustrations through heuristic evaluation and test result data.

Research Assistant, College Research University of Washington

• Created, evaluated and simulated workflow model based on interviews and survey results.
• Used statistical method to do quant analysis based on the simulation.
• Designed a prototype for healthcare software based on research result.

Education

Universality of Washington Seattle, WA
M.S. in Human Centered Design & Engineering (HCI)
Research Scholarship, GPA: 3.80

University of Washington  Seattle, WA
B.S. in Human Centered Design & Engineering, Statistics
Double Degree, Dean List Student, GPA: 3.50

Publication

Webthetics: Quantifying Webpage Aesthetics with Deep Learning

Sam Zheng, Tongfang Sun, Qi Dou Information Science, Journal, 2017

Eye-Wearable Technology for Machine Maintenance: Effects of Display Position and Hands-free Operation

Siemens Corporate Research ACM CHI 2015

Model Checking for Verification of Interactive Health IT Systems

Keith Butler, Eric Mercer, Cui Tao. AMIA 2015 Symposium

Studies on Information Hiding Method Based on Spread Spectrum Technology and Dual MP3 Audio Files

Tongfang Sun, Yuantao Gu, Yin Gao ISDEA, IEEE, 2010