Welcome to My Career Journey
I’m Drew Yang, a designer and entrepreneur with experience in UI/UX design, website design, and user research. I have worked across corporate, creative, and collaborative environments, focusing on solving user challenges through design.
Working Experience
User Research & Experience Designer
May. 2023
Lead Intelligent Equipment Co., Ltd.,
Shanghai, China
I joined the company as a summer intern during my undergraduate. In this role, I worked on improving employee experience, exploring behavioral data, collaborating with different departments, which made a significant change to the employee relationship.
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Contributed to the design of an employee retention system by applying standardized difference values to behavioral and survey data from 2100 employees, which improved the accuracy of identifying high-risk retention groups by 20%.
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Collaborated with the Information Relations Department to identify workflow inefficiencies, and co-designed a digital tool that automated workflow optimizations, resulting in a 12% average reduction in employee turnover intentions.
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Optimized the corporate website's UI and interaction flow, increasing average daily active users from 6000 to 6800.
Junior Content Designer
Feb. 2022
Su Mo International Exhibition Co., Ltd.,
Jiangsu, China
During this role, I supported the development of product concepts. I worked across research, design, and production coordination, learning how design decisions translate into real manufacturing outcomes.
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Designed 6 hotel supplies and FMCG product concepts (including disposable amenities and packaging variants), covering from design, material selection, packaging selection and feasibility analysis; managed 3-4 parallel design tasks per week using Excel-based schedules to meet internal review deadlines.
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Coordinated over 10 rounds of communication with factories and engineers, revising materials, dimensions, and assembly details to resolve technical issues and enable 2 product designs to progress into production without delays.
UX & Website Designer
Jun. 2021
Sunshine Insurance Group
Jiangsu, China
I started my career journey back to the internship in this group. In this role, I helped redesign the public account interface and content layout, creating wireframes and UI visual plans, which provided a solid foundation of my user centered design skills and insights.
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Participated in the redesign of the public account interface and content layout for the “Sunshine Culture” platform, producing low-fidelity wireframes and UI visual plans; optimized information hierarchy for key content sections, covering over 10 content templates.
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Conducted basic user research through content analytics and audience behavior tracking on 50+ published posts; identified usability issues (such as low visual salience and inconsistent navigation bars), contributing to subsequent visual adjustments.
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Collaborated with the branding and content teams to standardize visual components (color, typography and icon styles), improving visual consistency.
Entrepreneurship & Freelance
1. Founder - Polit Whale E-Commerce (Wuxi) Co., Ltd.,
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Designed and launched a B2B sourcing website using Shopify, independently completing UI layout, product taxonomy (30+ SKUs), and backend workflow integration (inquiry forms, supplier matching and order tracking), enabling the platform to support sourcing requests from international clients.
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Delivered China sourcing and export coordination services for overseas clients, covering supplier selection, logistics coordination, and cross-border negotiation; supported 10+ completed transactions and maintained a client satisfaction score above 90% based on feedback and repeat inquiries.
2. Freelancer - Fiverr
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Acted as an intermediary between international clients and Chinese domestic suppliers, handling itinerary, supplier matching, quotation comparison, and price negotiation; supported 20+ client inquiries with customized rate sheets across multi industries.
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Assisted supplier onboarding and partnership discussions, facilitating operational coordination such as reception arrangements, shipping and logistics support, improving transaction efficiency.
Education
The University of Edinburgh
2025 - 2026
Master of Science in Design and Digital Media
Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
At the University of Edinburgh, I am currently pursuing a Master’s degree in Design and Digital Media, where I focus on interaction design and user experience. The program has strengthened my ability to approach design through research, critical thinking, and technologies, allowing me to explore how digital experiences shape human socitey.
Multimedia University
2023 - 2025
Bachelor of Arts in Digital Marketing
My journey at Multimedia University was a transformative experience. I shifted my major and began to explore marketing field, which provided me a unique perspective on branding and creative industry. It triggered my passion for my entrepreneurship journey.
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Soochow University
2020 - 2023
Bachelor of Arts in Visual Communication Design
Suzhou, China
This was where I started my design journey. During this time, I built a strong foundation in visual storytelling, typography, branding, and layout. The experience introduced me to design thinking and helped me develop sensitivity to visual communication and audience perception.
Professional Skills
Design
Figma, Touch Designer, ProtoPie, Rhino (KeyShot), Canvas, AutoCAD, Adobe Suit, Procreate
Research
User Journey Map, Service Blue Print Map, Dimond Map, Behavior Analysis, Experience Strategy
Language
English (Advanced),
Mandarin (Native)