Rita Ho
Design Director at Various
Copenhagen, Capital Region of Denmark
Summary
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Top SchoolRita Ho is a design leader with 10+ years shaping product and experience strategy, currently serving as Design Director at the Wikimedia Foundation in Copenhagen. She has progressed through hands-on and managerial roles at Wikimedia—leading Growth, Editing, Web, and Design Systems teams—to deliver experimentally driven features that increased new editors across ~300 language editions. Rita combines deep UX craft (still working directly in Figma) with team leadership, mentorship and cross-functional collaboration across product and engineering. Her background includes senior UX roles at Google and Sitecore and freelance design work dating back to 2004, giving her a blend of enterprise, startup and consultancy perspectives. Fluent in design for complex, multilingual/global products and informed by studies in China, she brings a meticulous, impact-focused approach to inclusive digital experiences.
10 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
B.Design in Visual Communication (First Class Honours) & B.A. in International Studies (China) Design and Visual Communications General, B.Design in Visual Communication (First Class Honours) & B.A. in International Studies (China) Design and Visual Communications General at University of Technology SydneyIn-country Study Chinese Language and Culture, In-country Study Chinese Language and Culture at Zhejiang University
English, Chinese, Chinese
Github Skills (28)
wikipedia10
android-app10
swift10
mediawiki9
ios9
objective-c9
java9
mediawiki-api9
kotlin9
viewmodel9
rest-api9
coroutines9
android8
wikimedia8
commons8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
reetssydney/prototypes
Sep 2016 - Aug 2021
Contributions:160 commits, 22 PRs, 157 pushes in 4 years 11 months
reetssydney/WikimediaUI-Style-Guide
Jun 2018 - Jan 2021
Wikimedia Design Style Guide with user interface focus, authored by Wikimedia Foundation Design team.
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 7 months
user-interfacewikimediacssstyle-guidefoundation
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