Bryan Wu - User Experience Design and Consulting

	Bryan Wu User Experience Design & Consulting 648 Waller St. #3, San Francisco, CA 94117 USA +1 (415) 252-8969
	Summary	Award-winning user experience design director with a rich and varied 18-year history creating innovative, easy-to-use web sites, applications, and games for high-profile clients. Strong technology background, excellent communicator, and has consulted on design process management. Interested in international work.
	Experience	Wu & Associates, San Francisco (2001-present) Principal. User experience design consulting for companies in the Silicon Valley. Project scoping, client management, hands-on design and specification. Selected projects: Motorola - The socially-connected contacts app, a core part of MotoBlur on Moto's first Android phones. (video) Tiny Prints (portfolio) - Customize and buy modern stationery. Suzuki Cycles - Suzuki Cycles USA and Canada marketing site. Bank of the West (portfolio) - Webby nominee banking site. Yahoo Mobile (portfolio) - Mobile e-commerce store for ringtones, games. Yahoo! Photos (portfolio) - Say Cheese! E-commerce and plug-in redesign. Yahoo! Personals - Dinner date? Designed a prototype dating product. Gap / Yahoo! Casting Call - Become a Gap Model. Advertising / contest site. Adobe.com - Homepage redesign and global navigation. Blue Shield of California - Redesigns and new technology rollouts. Protein Planet - A database-heavy peer-reviewed bioinformatics site.
		Quokka Sports, San Francisco (1999-2000) Senior experience architect. Led teams of designers in both strategic and tactical roles. Sample projects: NBCOlympics.com (portfolio) - Architect and interaction design lead for NBC's 2000 Sydney Olympics coverage. Integrated web / TV sponsor branding, games and advertisements with frequent throws between the two mediums. Quokka Action Tracker (portfolio)- Designed java applet for live coverage of Olympic events with streaming text, scoring, and photos. Interactive TV (portfolio)- Lead design exploration team for next-generation sports coverage.
		Studio Archetype / Sapient Corporation, San Francisco (1997-99) Senior information designer. Hands-on research and design overhauls of functional and marketing web sites. Projects included complete redesigns of *ETrade.com (portfolio), PeopleSoft.com, Xerox.com**.
		Tactile Pictures, San Francisco (1996) Interactive design director and programmer. Clients included McDonald's, Macromedia, Snap.com, Cryogen (portfolio).
		A. Magazine, New York (1994-95) Art director for New York-based print magazine. Established and managed small art department.
		Interaction Design Consultant, New York (1991-93) Created kiosks, ATMs, first web sites. Clients included Desgrippes Gobé, Sears, American Express, Citibank, Carnegie Science Center.
	Education	B.S. Computer Engineering Specialization in Human-Computer Interaction (Industrial Design) Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh
	Recognition	Etrade.com Gold Pencil Award, One Show Interactive #1 ease of use, Gomez Advisors NBCOlympics.com (portfolio) #1 Olympics site, Nielson/NetRatings Cryogyn Miniature Cryotherapy Device (portfolio) Silver Medal, IDEA, Industrial Designers Society of America Silver, Medical Design Excellence Award Honorable mention, Annual Design Awards, ID Magazine BankoftheWest.com (portfolio) 2005 Webby Award nominee