Bob Bao is a Senior UX Designer with eight years of multidisciplinary experience crafting human-centered interfaces across automotive, mobile, VR/AR, and autonomous systems. He has led interaction design and design system efforts at Ford and now shapes developer and operations tooling for autonomous tech at Zoox, bridging research prototypes to production-ready HMI. Trained in industrial design and systems engineering with an MFA in Interaction Design, he blends visual craft, rigorous user research, and systems thinking to tackle complex mobility experiences. Outside product work he brings a developer’s mindset and a photographer’s eye, which surfaces in pragmatic yet elegant interaction solutions that consider both technical constraints and emotional delight.
8 years of coding experience
BA (Hons) in Design, Industrial and Product Design, 3.10, BA (Hons) in Design, Industrial and Product Design, 3.10 at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Master of Science - MS, Systems Engineering, 3.90, Master of Science - MS, Systems Engineering, 3.90 at Oakland University
Master of Fine Arts (MFA), Interaction Design, 3.74, Master of Fine Arts (MFA), Interaction Design, 3.74 at College for Creative Studies
Student Exchange Program, Industrial Design Engineering, Student Exchange Program, Industrial Design Engineering at Delft University of Technology
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