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gracechen ☹ ui/ux&design                                                                                                                                                gracechen ☺ ui/ux&design

grace_chen@brown.edu

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Experience

Opal – UI/UX Designer

Conducted user research and competitive analysis on the NFT and cryptocurrency market. Carried out iterative user testing to generate low to high-fidelity prototypes for social media startup.

Fullstack at Brown - Design Director

Led the creative direction of a club with 200+ members. Managed a team of UI/UX designers working across 30+ different projects. Created FSAB’s first dedicated branch of designers.Organized applications, onboarding, and user testing pipelines.

Hack@Brown – Design Lead

As part of the design team coordinating Brown University’s annual hackathon, I created various 3D designs and animations using Cinema 4D to bring playfulness and inclusivity to the forefront of the event’s visual identity. Website reached over 1000+ users and generated 300+ signups.

Celebrate – UI/UX Intern

I created designs for both mobile and desktop platforms, starting from ideation to high fidelity mockups in order to facilitate an intuitive, clean look for Celebrate, a CA-based start-up that takes the guesswork out of gifting using wishlists and group gift funds.

UCSD 3D Printing Research Intern

Proposed and led experiments that tested the effect of 3D printing infill designs on mechanical properties (published in ACS 2021). Worked in a wet lab to test the 3D printability of various composite polymer materials for soft robotics.

Outliers Magazine – Founder and Editor-in-Chief

I founded a student-run modern culture magazine inspired by editorial fashion magazines. I assign deadlines, critique designs,and organize general art direction for each issue. Each year we publish 200+ copies to distribute on campus.

Spirit Skies – Art Lead

I led a group of 30+ students to publish a full-length, fantastical graphic novel about environmental responsibility. I managed deadlines, was the point of contact for writers and publishers, and presented at conferences including Comic Con International in the summer of 2019 and 2020.

AGG USA Federation – Lead Web Designer

I designed and maintained the webpage for the USA Aesthetic Group Gymnastics Federation using Wordpress. I created easy-to-navigate pages and learned to use third party apps to optimize search results.

Education

Brown University

‍Jan 2021 – May 202

Canyon Crest Academy

‍Aug 2016 – Jun 2020

University of California, Santa Cruz

COSMOS Video Game Design Summer Program
Jul 2019 - Aug 2019

Awards & Publications

Wolfram Alpha Award

My project Rory placed top 25 at Hack@Brown in 2021

Scholastic Art & Writing

Feb 2020
National Silver Medal for Design, Regional Gold Key for Design and Painting

San Diego Groff Design Award

June 2019
Art competition among all high school students in San Diego County

Scholastic Art & Writing

Regional Gold Key for Political Cartoon, Painting, and Sculpture
Feb 2019

Structure–Mechanical Property Relationships of 3D-Printed Porous Polydimethylsiloxane

June 25, 2021 https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acsapm.1c00417

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