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I'm Aaron Tan, a confident, articulate and determined Designer Engineer who has experience of being involved in a wide range of UX activities across both design and frontend development.
Specialties:
‣ Design Thinking
‣ Design System
‣ Design Sprint
‣ User Interface (UI)
‣ User Experience (UX)
‣ User Research
‣ Responsive (RWD) / Adaptive (AWD) HTML5 design (from desktop to mobile)
‣ Skilled in Web Frontend technologies (JQuery, Bootstrap, HTML5, CSS3, JQuery, React, Ant Design, Next.js, Gatsby)
Others:
‣ Familiar with CMS (Webflow, Joomla, Wordpress, Drupal, Umbraco)
‣ Familiar with design tools (Webflow, Figma, Sketch, Photoshop)
‣ Familiar with prototyping tools (Webflow, Invision, Zeplin, Keynote)
‣ Familiar to Mac/Windows/iOS/Android environment
‣ Familiar with CSS-Preprocessor such as SASS and LESS to speed up CSS design workflow
‣ Familiar with build tools such as Gatsby/NextJS/Gulp.js to help manage and automate web design / development workflow
Employed
Chinese (Cantonese)
Chinese (Hokkian)
English
Malay
English
Malay
Chinese (Cantonese)
Chinese (Hokkian)
9 Sep, 2020 - Current
The Makeover Guys, Kuala Lumpur, Mont Kiara
SME
Senior
Architecture, Interiors, Product
Product Designer
Part of one of the new digital teams at The Makeover Guys, I'm responsible to bring a bright & mature retail (renovation) startup with great digital customer & crew experience. Previously the company is limited by the manual operation of handling multiple excel that has caused them a lot of miscommunication and time.
Notable projects & design activities:
‣ The Makeover Guys Project Management Administration to handle day-to-day operations.
‣ Winning Pass 2.0 & 3.0 (microsite) that helps business continuity while in lockdown
‣ Tenancy Management Service digital experience with collaboration with external agency & MDEC
‣ Customer discovery (personas & storyboard, service design).
‣ Setup Slack as an internal team communication tool.
‣ Setup Notion as a progress management tool & documentation.
‣ Opportunity mapping discovery, retrospective, design critique activities via FigJam.
‣ Guide the growth of a designer from an agency background to a UI/UX generalist (user research and design activities).
5 May, 2019 - 8 Aug, 2020
Grooves Sdn. Bhd., Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
New Startup
Senior
Digital Media
UI & UX Designer
Founded in Tokyo, Grooves is a HR technology company that enhances the recruitment process for candidates, companies and recruiting agencies.
I have taken the challenge to work with a fresh startup (5-man) company in bringing local talents to Japan. This is something I'm passionate about and I want to share working in Japan with others.
I have extra responsibility in building the the design team and also working on frontend with developers.
Recent COVID-19 hit hard for everyone, so our team quickly switch our gear to try new things (events) and were faced with ups and downs as we are taking things offline to online and everyone is new to it. Most important is we did try and learn from it and that is the one takeaway I would love to share.
"Dare to try, dare to fail, don't stop".
Opportunity to help local business and explore different industry other than recruitment and technology.
9 Sep, 2015 - 1 Jan, 2019
SEEK Asia (Jobstreet & JobsDB), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Multinational Corporation
Senior Manager
Digital Media
UI & UX Designer
Synthesise the core user needs and problem to be solved by interpreting user research, analytics and secondary research.
Lead the conceptual design for a product feature by leading the right design activities required to solve the problem.
Lead the detailed interaction design for a product feature by directly contributing and directing other Product Designers and Visual Designers.
Owns and leads copy creation and translation process by working with Copywriter and country translation specialists.
Own the quality and efficiency for a Product Design by constantly assessing whether design meets goals set by Product Owners.
Lead the creation of new Product Design patterns.
Evaluate the effectiveness of Product Design to meet goals set by Product Owners.
Take a break from work and travel
10 Oct, 2014 - 8 Aug, 2015
Unique Websites, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
New Startup
Manager
Digital Media
UI & UX Designer
Lead UI/UX team to bring Australia Tradingpost and its partners product for global expansion and redesigned CarShowroom.com.au
Setup a workflow/automation for each project for faster and better team coordination using tools such as the open source gulp.js to eliminate most of the mundane task (SASS to CSS conversion, CSS/JS compression, ftp sync, browser sync test..)
Assist in with the other managers to coordinate the effort of the global expansion of Tradingpost
Career advancement
3 Mar, 2013 - 9 Sep, 2014
Unique Websites, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
New Startup
Senior
Digital Media
UI & UX Designer
Maintain and extend existing systems and products using the latest high-performance UI / UX trends & techniques. Currently actively focusing on RWD (Responsive Web Design) for active projects.
Assisted the sales team with technical enquiries. Due to the nature of client side, there are many environment to tackle (Coldfusion, PHP, CMS like Wordpress.. etc.)
Assist the graphic design and build teams with custom web programming, issue troubleshooting, and technical help as required.
Re-built Australian multi-million classified business Tradingpost.com.au website into responsive design complete with a entirely new flat-design, responsive Tradingpost ad management system (Easylist) in all under 3 months.
Promoted to team lead on the same company
7 Jul, 2009 - 2 Feb, 2013
Cubinet Interactive (MSC) Sdn Bhd, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
SME
Senior
Digital Media
Web Designer
Discovering and creating new UI for company product web frontend and backend.
Creating cross-browsers web templates for frontend developers to use, not only to look nicer but save developer time in debugging visual aspect of web applications.
Came out with new ideas and prototype for new media (social media, mobile) to get information across.
Maintaining company in-house web framework frontend development.
Career advancement
2 Feb, 2006 - 4 Apr, 2009
KSE System Co., Ltd., Tokyo, Japan
New Startup
Junior
Digital Media
Software Engineer
Designed web report with XML and XSLT for Blu-Ray Disc testing as well as creating tools to generate the report data at Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. resulting in 70% increased in delivering report for test team.
Reversed engineered project file for a Blu-Ray authoring file and created tools to generate the same project file with specific features in a semi-automated workflow which cuts down the manual authoring from 3 disc to about 10 disc a day.
Assisted in creating part of the Flash subtitle engine that is to be used on “NHK On Demand” that support support wide range of styles that is not included on the original Flash component.
Moved back to Malaysia
1 Jan, 2004 - 1 Jan, 2006
BDC INTEGRATED VISIONS (M) SDN. BHD, Kuala Lumpur
Multinational Corporation
Junior
Digital Media
UI & UX Designer
Author CSS/XHTML coding and design standards for new site and redesigns
Provide design for web site, web applications and other online properties
Designing flash content for websites
Career advancement to Japan
Major in Computing with specialism in Internet Technology
Bachelor's Degree
Computer Science/ Information Technology
1 Jan, 2001 - 1 Jan, 2004
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