Val Y. Yang
Founder of Laolao Design (Design for Aging) | Lead/Senior Product Designer | Top 1% Design Mentor on ADPList
- Role
- Senior Product Designer at Acquia
- Location
- Brooklyn, NY, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Val Y. Yang
Designing tech that cares. I’m Val Yang, a Senior/Lead Product Designer with 8+…
Experience
Senior Product Designer
Apr 2022 — Present · New York, NY, US
As the sole designer of a sprint team accounting for the Acquia Digital Management platform, led redesigning effort for 8 feature releases, leading to a 11% increase in user adoption and 22.5% increase in account adoption.• Mentored junior designers through one-on-one sessions, providing guidance on design best • • practices and collaboration with teams.• Led and established Acquia Copilot (an AI assistant) from discovery research to beta release through close collaboration with 3 sprint teams, including ML engineers, a content designer, and product managers.• Researched and built accessible and scalable design components, including inline edit and carousel. Published the AI color scheme to the design system. • Drove accessibility adoption by leading a company-wide a11y working group, training 70+ designers/engineers on accessibility best practices through workshops.
Education
Rome Business School
Master of Arts - MA, Arts and Cultural Management
2017 — 2018
Amideast Education Abroad
Study Abroad in Amman, Jordan, Arabic, Islamic Art, Middle Eastern Studies, Independent Research
Beijing No.4 High School
High School, High School Academic
2009 — 2012
Suffolk University - Sawyer Business School
MPA, Human-Centered Design in Public Administration
St. Olaf College
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Media Studies, Studio Arts, and Middle Eastern Studies
2012 — 2016
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