Catherine Wong

Senior Product Designer

Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Catherine Wong is a Senior Product Designer with more than 12 years experience, who has been involved in successfully bringing viable and relevant products to the market that answer consumer’s need through insight, creativity and innovation.

Her skills include Industrial Design, Product Design, User experience, Graphic Design and Project Management. She is passionate to bring together technology elements along with her creativity and attention to detail to resolve consumer wants and needs.

She is team orientated, ambitious and self motivated.

Originally from Malaysia, she graduated with Honours in Design for Industry from the UK and received a New Designers Award in London in 2006. She then moved to Hong Kong and worked for Vtech Telecommunications, which is one of the top multinational electronics manufacturer in Hong Kong and China.

Catherine pursued her career and worked for Philips Design (now known as Gibson Innovations) in Hong Kong Science Park. Over the past 5 years, she has created product solutions for a broad range of products including speakers, boomboxes, headphones, clocks, mobile accessories, etc.

She is flexible in implementing different design approaches and skill sets to emphasize new identities and product language.

Highly motivated, dedicated, enthusiastic, and has the ability to communicate strong ideas across professionally. Her ability to speak 5 different languages allows her to communicate with people from all backgrounds.

Work Experience

Lenovo

Lead Senior Industrial Designer

May 2017 - Present Shenzhen, China

Gibson Innovations

Senior Product Designer

• Responsibilities include leading projects, driving innovation and differentiation via design to deliver customer focused product solutions that are aligned with the company’s business strategies, visual style guidelines and Philips’s brand goals.
• Me and my team also conceptualizes and develops new products with a very complex level of difficulty, or breath of scope.
• I have extensive experience and practical expertise in product design, materials and manufacturing processes.

November 2014 - Hong Kong

Philips Design

Senior Product Designer

• Responsibilities include leading projects, driving innovation and differentiation via design to deliver customer focused product solutions that are aligned with the company’s business strategies, visual style guidelines and Philips’s brand goals.
• Me and my team also conceptualizes and develops new products with a very complex level of difficulty, or breath of scope.
• I have extensive experience and practical expertise in product design, materials and manufacturing processes.
• Worked on the first ever Eco clock radio that is 100% environmental friendly.
• Designed and followed up more than 15 products yearly
• Grand Prize Winner of the Consumer Delighting Competition that is organized yearly and my team was choosen to represent Philips Hong Kong in Netherlands 2012.
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June 2010 - November 2014 Hong Kong

Vtech Telecommunications

Senior Product Designer

• Responsibilities included Market and Trend Research, Concept Generation, and Design of telecommunication products and other consumer electronic products.
• Dealing with Manufacturers in China in CMF and checking copper masters.
• Interaction with Engineers, Human Factors, and Product Managers in the USA.
• Selected to travel to the USA with the Design Director to be involved in client presentations to Vtech’s major clients such as; Target, Costco, Best Buy in the States.
• Supervision of Junior Product Designers and their workflow.
• Working in all areas of the design process from product Conceptualisation to Production.
• Designed the whole Vtech core range for 2010, and was very well received by the clients.
• The Premium and V-style cordless phone was best selling items from the Vtech website in 2009.
• Created and launched new range of wireless headset for AT&T and Vtech brand.
November 2006 - June 2010 Hong Kong

Philips Avent

Internship

• Working with a senior designer from Avent, who sponsored the infant formula milk maker project and provided an industrial reference point for my final year major project.
January 2006 - July 2006 London, United Kingdom

ThinkReka Design Consultancy

Internship

• Was involved in concept generation and idea development of various products from consumer electronics to furniture and household products.
April 2005 - June 2005 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Education

University Of Northumbria At Newcastle

Bachelor Honours in Design for Industry

January 2005 - July 2006 Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom

Limkokwing University Of Creative Technology

Diploma in Product Design

January 2002 - December 2004 Cyberjaya, Malaysia

Languages

Mandarin (Native),
Cantonese (Fluent),
English (Fluent),
Bahasa Malaysia (Fluent),

Awards

New Designers Award London

New Designers Award : Product Design for Infant Formula Milk Maker

2006

Airasia Photography Contest

Photography Award Winner

2009

Red Dot Award

Red Dot Award : Product Design for Luceo Cordless Phone

2015

Hong Kong Design For Industry Award

International Award : Product Design for Vtech Premium model (LS 6245)

2009

IF

iF DESIGN AWARD Philips Izzy wireless multiroom speaker BM6

2017

Skills

Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, Keyshot, Solidworks,