Richie Chen

Product Designer

New York, NY, USA
I’m a New York-based user-centric product designer that uses strategy to guide people and businesses to thrive through experiences. My affinity towards technology, merged with my passion for sketching and crafting, drives me to be in a continuous process of creative experimentation. Having grown up in an art and design culture, the friends and mentors that I've interacted with in my work, inspire me to be adaptive, empathic and communicative, leaning towards user research to contextualize a problem for well-informed solutions.

As a personalist with a design thinking approach exploring human behavior as my main medium, I strive to facilitate utilitarian solutions. My industrial design background within products and retail enlightens me to pay substantial attention to tactility of materials and spatial awareness, understanding user experience as a physical product alongside digital service, having an inclination to design ambient experiences that respond to user journeys to conceptualize fulfilling experiences.

Work Experience

Joseph La Piana

Design Intern

June 2013 - August 2013 New York, United States

Scanteak

Design Intern

Coordinated with design team, Outofstock, award recipients of President Design of the year Singapore, to help launch new collection of furniture
June 2012 - July 2012 Singapore, Singapore

Mattel

Designer

November 2015 - April 2016

Center Stage Productions

Industrial Designer

July 2016 - January 2018 Fair Lawn, New Jersey, United States

Education

Pratt Institute

Bachelor of Industrial Design

August 2011 - May 2015 United States

General Asssembly

User Experience Design Immersive

March 2018 - May 2018

Languages

Mandarin (Advanced),
English (Native),