Karen Pang

UX Designer, Art Director, Technology Enthusiast

Baltimore, MD, USA
Karen has an extensive experience in UX design. Beside integrating business strategy and human-centered design thinking in UX design, her background includes art direction, project management, new business development and marketing. She provides design solutions with best practices for client's marketing needs in websites, mobile applications, social media, emailers, and print materials.

Work Experience

Exelon

Sr. UX Strategist

Design Thinking Ambassador
Innovation
User Research
February 2019 - Present Maryland, United States

Self-Employed

Freelance Designer/Consultant

Notable projects:
Golfswell system (startup)
Lolly Wooly Doodle app
MasterCard mobile apps
McCormick for Chefs website
September 2004 - Present Maryland, United States

Centretek Solutions

UX Strategist

February 2017 - Present Ellicott City, Maryland, United States

Chalk & Chisel

UX Designer

To ensure producing the best and the right product by collaborating with product strategists and developers to establish personas, user stories and experience flow, producing IA/wireframes to communicate user experience flow and documentation for development reference, and researching user behavior of related industry and products to create effective user experience.
April 2016 - November 2016 Baltimore, Maryland, United States

Harvey

Interactive Art Director

Established and grew a digital team to extend on the full service for the agency by overseeing all interactive projects, coordinate design and development resources, researching technology-driven ideas, concept mockup, new business development, digital marketing, and project management.
April 2013 - April 2016 Maryland, United States

Zynga

Senior UI Designer

Helped launch of Cityville2 on Facebook and multiple game features with UI mockups and implementations.

Prototyping a social card game with the India studio and an invest and express game with the local Baltimore studio for mobile devices.
July 2012 - Present Maryland, United States

R2integrated

Graphic Designer

Built concept pitch for varies Windows Phone 7.5+ and Windows 8 apps in partnership with the Microsoft evangelists team.

Demonstrated high-level organization and easy-to-use user interface for websites, web applications for desktop and mobile experience through wireframing and prototyping exercise.

Designed websites that are esthetically appealing to targeted audience and adhesive to business branding, with technology-enhanced tools for sophisticated
user experience.

Provided supporting graphics to marketing materials used on web and print media.

Notable clients include Microsoft, MasterCard, National Institute of Health, California Dental Association, National Endowment for Financial Education, Intouch Ministries, and more.
February 2007 - Baltimore, Maryland, United States

Education

University Of Maryland Baltimore County

Bachelor of Art: Visual Arts

Graduated Cum Laude

Vice-President, AIGA, 2005-06
September 2004 - January 2007 Baltimore, Maryland, United States

Languages

English (Fluent),
Cantonese (Native),
Mandarin (Conversational),