Susan Huang

Susan is a user experience designer with a background in graphic design and design research. She has a passion for transforming experiences into meaningful artifacts, ecosystems and services that are a joy to use. She believes in meeting user needs through human-centered research and design -- design that is intuitive, fast, accessible, attractive, and often fun.

Her past professional work has included reinventing the in-store retail experience for Proctor & Gamble cosmetics, and combining service design skills and design processes in the food service industry -- improving the quality and interactions of the consumer experience.

She is fortunate to have worked closely with one of the pioneers of experience design, Nathan Shedroff, in her coursework for the MBA in Design Strategy Program at the California College of the Arts in San Francisco. Recent accolades were given in a 2011 Core77 Design Award for Design Research & Strategy for Design Play, a methodology developed for teaching design thinking to children. She and her co-founders continue to expand on this winning entry, developing tools to inspire Design Play in children around the world.

When she’s not designing, you can find her with friends -- stuffing her face, cooking, or at kickboxing class. She dearly loves her swiss army tool known as the iPhone, and does NOT consider her love of Reality Television an embarrassment. Aside from being obsessed with observing and figuring out why people do what they do, she’s a wannabe runner, and a sock, sock, shoe, shoe girl.

You can check out her work and follow her blog, Twitter, and LinkedIn by visiting www.suehuang.com