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.

Experiences - Projects

Simple Alternatives Logo

Simple Alternatives Responsive Web App Project

June 2022
UI/UX
Case Study

Sustainability - Low Impact (plastice free) eCommerce Website Design

ReTHNK (Rethink) Logo

ReTHNK Mobile App Project

May 2022
UI/UX
Case Study

Recycling mobile (iOS/Android) app Design

Good4Earth Logo

Good4Earth - Eco Quiz Project

April 2022
UI/UX
Professional

Sustainability Assessment Test on Desktop app

Asobo Logo

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.