Julie Gao

Design Engineer
Open to work

julie.gao369@gmail.com

+49 1627916301

Education

Karlsruhe Institute of Technology Karlsruhe, Germany
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology Karlsruhe, Germany

Oct. 2023 – Expected Dec. 2025

Oct. 2023 – Expected Dec. 2025

M.S Management of Product Development

DongHua UniversityShanghai, China
DongHua University
Shanghai, China

Sep. 2016 – Jul. 2020

Sep. 2016 – Jul. 2020

B.A Digital Media Art

University of WestminsterLondon, UK
University of Westminster
London, UK

Jan. 2019 - Jun. 2019

Jan. 2019 - Jun. 2019

Exchange in Media, Art & Design

Professional experience

Senior UX designer Orka, Shanghai

Jul. 2020 – Aug. 2023

  • Led E-commerce and consumer app design, increased conversion rates by 19% and enhanced customer engagement for over 500 North American Orka hearing aids users.

  • Transformed research insights into design concepts, conducted Hi-Fi prototyping and usability testing, optimised user flows across software, hardware and packaging touch points.

  • Facilitated workshops with marketing, service, design, and development teams to base design decisions on user feedback and data insights.

  • Built the cross-platform design system and implemented it with the engineering team, achieved scalability and visual consistency of all digital products.

  • Oversaw internal and external creative partners, established Orka’s visual brand guidelines.

Senior UX designer
Orka, Shanghai

Jul. 2020 – Aug. 2023

Interactive Design Intern Orka, Shanghai
Interactive Design Intern
Orka, Shanghai

Oct. 2019 – June. 2020

Oct. 2019 – June. 2020

  • Revamped homepage design for Orka website, resulting in a 10% increase in new signup upon launch.

  • Visualised the pitch deck with the founding team, laid the foundation for $5M Series A funding later on.

UI System Development Student project Pluto, Karlsruhe
UI System Development
Student project Pluto, Karlsruhe

Nov. 2023 – July. 2024

  • Built a beer delivery robot customer-facing app MVP in FlutterFlow with Firebase integration, achieved end-to-end user flow for local beer ordering.

  • Collaborated with the embedded engineer to develop data protocols, enabled the robot Pluto to deliver customer beer orders placed on the app.

Hospitant zum KIT Academic Co-Creation Mercedes-Benz AG, Sindelfingen
Hospitant zum KIT Academic Co-Creation
Mercedes-Benz AG, Sindelfingen

Nov. 2024 – Dec. 2024

  • Conducted user persona research for E-Wagon operator and maintenance group.

  • Created user journey map and storyboard for station-based sharing framework.

  • Collaborated with mechanical engineer to develop E-Wagon station framework.

  • Used Notion for project management

User research

User interview

Usability studies

Card sorting

Surveys

Web Analytics

A/B testing

Research reports

System usability score

Personas

User journey maps

Storyboards

Software design and development

Creative brainstorm

Conception workshop

Information architecture

Consequence analysis

Low-code development

User interface

App prototyping

Interdisciplinary Know-How

Industrial design engineering

Mechanical engineering

Patent strategy

Legal Aspects of Information

Data analysis

Information system

PLM

IoT & CPS

Financial Management

Supply chain management

Management accounting

Operation research

Skills

Skills

User research

User interview

Usability studies

Surveys

Card sorting

Web Analytics

A/B testing

Research reports

System usability score

User journey maps

Personas

Storyboards

Software design and development

Conception workshop

Information architecture

User interface

Visualization

Consequence analysis

App prototyping

Low-code development

Low-code development

Interdisciplinary Know-How

Industrial design engineering

Mechanical engineering

Patent strategy

Patent strategy

Legal Aspects of Information

Legal Aspects of Information

Data analysis

Data analysis

Information system

Information system

Operation research

Operation research

PLM

PLM

IoT & CPS

Management accounting

Management accounting

Supply chain management

Supply chain management

Financial Management

Financial Management

Tech stack

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Languages

🇬🇧 English
C1 Business Fluent
🇩🇪 German
B1 in study
🇨🇳 Chinese
Native
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Tech stack

Languages

🇬🇧 English
C1 Business Fluent
🇩🇪 German
B1 In Study
🇨🇳 Chinese
Native