JOHNNY LUO
About Me
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Hey, Thanks for visiting my site! I'm a young and motivated UX/UI designer and game developer based in San Francisco, California. I am currently a recent at UC Santa Cruz with a Bachelors of Art in Art and Design: Games and Playable Media.
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My passion for developing video games has motivated me to use my gamification expertise to design more engaging user experiences to other platforms.
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Education
University of California, Santa Cruz | Santa Cruz, CA
Art and Design: Games and Playable Media | 2017 - 2021
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Dean's Honors | 3.71 GPA
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Experience
ASSIST Lab, Undergraduate UX Research Assistant
Winter 2018 - Present |University of California, Santa Cruz
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Developed and designed a virtual reality game for adults with developmental disabilities in learning social-emotional skills.
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Worked closely with therapists to gain research information regarding individuals with disabilities.
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Designed storyboards, wireframes, and high-fidelity prototypes.
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User-testing was conducted at Hope Services in Santa Cruz County.
BSOE, UX Designer
Jan 2020 - March 2020 | Class Project
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Working in a team to help redesign the current website for the Baskin School of Engineering at UCSC.
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Followed the user-centered design process starting with research and interview surveys which lead to the creation of low and high fidelity prototypes and user-testing.
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Final project was presented to real stakeholders at the Baskin School of Engineering in Santa Cruz.
Skills
Game Design / Development
Prototyping
Wireframing
Usability Testing
User Interviews
User Research
User Flows
Journey Mapping
Tools
Figma
Adobe XD
Adobe Illustrator
Adobe Photoshop
Unity
Microsoft Office
Coding
C#
HTML/CSS/JS
Java
Carbon Active, UX Designer
Sep 2019 - Sep 2020 | Santa Cruz County, California
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Worked closely with the founder of Carbon Active to develop a website to ensure positive user experience when shopping.
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Prototypes of the website were developed on Figma and later conducted user-usability tests.
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Collaborated with other stakeholders to ensure ideations were considered before further iterations were made.