Yuko Shiozaki - Product Designer
Self-motivated Product Designer with a background in Front End Development and Web Design. Experienced in digital marketing (affiliate program) and B2B SaaS industries and skilled in tailoring solutions for users’ needs with inclusiveness and empathy in mind and taking the lead on projects or teams with a collaboration mindset.
Reach me at: yshiozaki.tech(at)gmail.com or message me at LinkedIn.
Experiences - Projects
Simple Alternatives Responsive Web App Project
June 2022
UI/UX
Case Study
Sustainability - Low Impact (plastice free) eCommerce Website Design
ReTHNK Mobile App Project
May 2022
UI/UX
Case Study
Recycling mobile (iOS/Android) app Design
Good4Earth - Eco Quiz Project
April 2022
UI/UX
Professional
Sustainability Assessment Test on Desktop app
Asobo! Responsive Web App Project
March 2022
UI/UX
Case Study
Children’s activity and its communities app
Experiences - Work
Product (UIUX) Designer | Freelance
March 2022 - Present
goSolve
- Understanding the deep intricacies of business requirements to provide smooth solutions to improve and simplify any existing pain points.
- Optimizing the user flows and creating lofi, and hifi wireframes.
J+S Brown Housing Developers
- Reshaped website to ensure business goals manifested and intuitive user experience within the limited design constraints. 75% more users approved the improvements.
- Iterated quantitative surveys with 10 users to receive user feedback and improve based on the results.
Good4Earth
- Created E2E solutions with inclusiveness for the flagship product, ‘Eco-Quiz (16 questions),’ to learn about users.
- Analyzed with a UX Researcher to define product strategy and design iterations through qualitative and quantitative data such as user interviews and surveys with over 20 people.
- Generated 75% more leads at the 2nd iteration from 60% with redefined contents.
SENIOR FRONT END DEVELOPER
Cornerstone OnDemand
June 2015 - Nov 2021
- Contributed to weekly design critiques to provide constructive feedback from a tech standpoint.
- Collaborated with design team to build and adopt the design component libraries across multiple products for a more cohesive experience (over 25 components).
- Built and shipped 30+ career products using React and GraphQL to shape them user-friendly.
- Trained a team of 30+ developers as a accessibility advocate.
- Completed on 2000+ JIRA tickets to ensure cross-browser compatibility, WCAG 2.1 compliance, and multi-language to improve usability for hundreds of millions of users.
- Experienced in Agile settings (JIRA) to increase productivity.
UI/UX Designer
NTT Facilities USA
Aug 2018 - April 2021
- Audited and redesigned the legacy website (6 pages) to make it more intuitive, accessible and inclusive.
- Built 6 pages of low and high-fidelity wireframes and visual design.
- Solved UI Design problems by applying the best UX practices.
UI DEVELOPER
Cornerstone OnDemand
June 2012 - June 2015
- Improved mobile user experience and workflow for better interaction.
- Created the Bootstrap-based customized CSS framework to make 7 mobile developers work effectively.
- Steered 1000+ TFS tickets to ship new features and maintain various products for better usability, including accessibility.
- Experienced in Agile settings (TFS) to organize and be more effective in teamwork.
Web Designer
DTI Services
Aug 2005 - June 2012
- Directed 100+ affiliate sales advertisement banners and landing pages with trends.
- Analyzed web traffic worldwide to maintain and improve ad quality and conversion rate.
Graphic Designer
International US Guide, Inc.
Jul 2001 - Jul 2005
- Logo, print design for 20+ clients including, article and ad layouts for 2D Japanese tourist guide maps in Los Angeles and Las Vegas.
UX UI Skills
Ideation
Sketching
Empathy Design
Qualitative User Research
Quantitative User Survey
User Interview
User Testing
Iterative Prototyping
Competitive Analysis
Wireframes
Personas
Flow Diagrams
UI Design
Collaboration
Tools
Figma
Adobe XD
Sketch
Balsamiq
Marvel
HTML
CSS (Sass/Less)
HTML
JavaScript
React
Tailwind CSS
Git
Accessibility
JAWS
Wave
Axe
NVDA
Webflow
Education
Certificate UI Design
CareerFoundry | Mentored Online Course
Nov 2021 - 2022
800+hour program with industry-leading mentors in user-centered design principles, including user research, user flows, experience maps, wireframing, iterative prototying and visual design in Figma, Adobe XD, and Sketch.
DE&I in Workplace
USF MUMA College
June, 2021
Learned the essential practices and tools designed to increase employee diversity and to create a business model that embraces equity and inclusion.
Bachelor of Art
California State University, Northridge
1999 - 2001
Major: Graphic Design/Photography
Award
Cornerstar of the Quarter Q1 (2020)
Cornerstone OnDemand
April 2020
This is an award for an employee who had contributed an exceptional job to lead a project/team.
