Yan Hong
User Experience Designer at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Los Angeles, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolYan Hong is a seasoned User Experience Designer with 11 years of cross-disciplinary experience designing consumer and internal platforms for companies from startups to AWS. Based in Los Angeles, he brings a rare blend of design and programming fluency—shaped by a Design & Technology master's from Parsons and entrepreneurial work showcased on GitHub—to rapidly prototype and ship polished product experiences. His work spans mobile apps, design systems, and research-driven feature strategy, including boosting an app’s rating and rebuilding retention and FICO score experiences to increase engagement. At AWS he now focuses on internal platforms, combining systems thinking with craft-level interaction design and a talent for turning research insights into pragmatic roadmaps.
11 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s Degree, Design & Technology, Master’s Degree, Design & Technology at Parsons School of Design - The New SchoolBachelor’s Degree, English Language and Literature, General, Bachelor’s Degree, English Language and Literature, General at Sun Yat-Sen University
English, Chinese, Japanese
Github Skills (58)
alexa-presentation-language9
css8
alexa-skills-kit8
react-redux7
multiselect7
visual-studio-code-extension7
sass7
selectize7
angularjs7
partials6
resumable6
form-data6
angular5
react5
nodejs5
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
hackhub-education/web-tweet-static
Apr 2018 - Jul 2019
Contributions:91 pushes, 18 branches in 1 year 3 months
hackhub-education/web-tweet-react
Jun 2018 - Feb 2020
React version for Web Tweet frontend code.
Contributions:1 PR, 5 pushes, 5 branches in 1 year 8 months
reactfrontendtwitter
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