About

Rebecca was born in Taiwan and grew up in Canada.

Her curiosity for different human behaviours and attitudes has led her to live and work in the UK, Australia, and Japan.

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experience

Senior user experience researcher
Stan, Sydney

Senior UX researcher (freelance)
Helium, Sydney

Senior user experience designer
Akcelo, Sydney

Senior UX researcher and designer (freelance)
Self-employed, Tokyo

Senior experience designer
Syfte (now Designit), Sydney

Senior UX Designer
Freelance for VML / Nice Agency (now Karmarama)
Nitro Digital / Blue Hive (now GTB) / RAPP / Isobar

UX Architect
AnalogFolk, London

… and if you go back far enough, I was a front-end developer at one point!

education

Bachelor of Fine Arts, Visual Arts
University of British Columbia

User Experience Specialist Certification
Akendi

Agile Fundamentals
ICAgile

Professional Certificate in Web Accessibility
University of South Australia

main skills

Research planning and prioritisation
Aligning research goals with business objectives
Stakeholder engagement and buy-in
Research ops (recruitment, vendor procurement)
Usability testing
Participatory design
Interviews
Surveys
Card sorting, tree testing
Heuristic evaluation
Accessibility review
Affinity mapping, thematic analysis
Presenting findings to executives and teams

tools

Figma
Miro
Confluence, Jira
Google suite
Keynote
… and more.

select clients

HSBC
Ford
Walgreens
Transport NSW
Macquarie Bank
Qantas
Audible (Amazon)
Mitsubishi
M&G Wealth / Prudential
Bank of Ireland

Think, make, check, repeat 🙂

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