Michael Cheong

Senior User Experience Designer

kahoucheong.ca
647-393-6041
linkedin.com/in/kahoucheong
michael@kahoucheong.ca
github.com/kahoucheong

Experience

Senior UX Designer | Canada Life

November 2021 - Present

  • Created and effectively presented UX deliverables low-fi sketches, prototypes, flows, IA and other UX artifacts.
  • Assessed inputs from multiple sources (UX research, existing digital experiences, project/product requirements, tech constraints, analytics) and synthesized it to develop effective design recommendations, taking into account our need for consistency, consistent design patterns, etc.
  • Executed pixel-perfect designs in the form of high-fidelity wireframes.
  • Collaborated directly with developers and stakeholders throughout the project, to ensure we balanced design, technology, user and business needs at all times.
  • Empathized with users, and become aware of their thoughts, needs, and behaviours to make recommendations that were optimized for them.

User Experience Architect | Sun Life

March 2021 - October 2021

  • Conducted user research to discover insights, refine user personas, and identify key jobs to be done/user problems to solve.
  • Developed user scenarios, user flows, design concepts, low and high-fidelity wireframes, and prototypes, UI standards documents, and other design documents as needed.
  • Conducted concept and usability testing to iteratively validate and improve design solutions.
  • Collaborated with product stakeholders to ensure a clear understanding of user needs and problems to be solved
  • Reviewed, interpreted, and shared research findings with agile squad team, working to build a shared understanding of user needs and pain points for Plan Sponsor and Plan Advisor GRS (Group Retirement Services) Business.

Senior Digital Marketing & Communications Specialist (Digital Experience Developer) | Sun Life

August 2017 - March 2021

  • Led digital projects to launch enrolment tools for GRS, tasks included overlooking design mock-ups, web design, content authoring and fixing defects using Adobe Experience Manager (AEM).
  • Designed interactive prototypes for training and demonstrations, custom prototypes for multi-national clients to achieve and secure sales goals.
  • Created user experience design for interactive web and mobile prototypes in Axure.
  • Created digital tools to meet WCAG 2.0 (A and AA) guidelines to ensure AODA (Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act) compliancy.
  • Updated and maintained custom content for client facing pages through AEM, HTML coding, JIRA and Wrike.

Front End Developer / UX Designer | Freelancer

March 2015 - Present

  • Collaborated with clients to understand of user needs, designed concepts, and created low/high fidelity wireframes.
  • Modified client's webpages based on client's requests
  • Work collaboratively with other web developers to ensure a smooth and successful production
  • Knowledge in developing webpages using HTML, CSS, JavaScript, jQuery, Bootstrap, Wordpress, Python, and Google Analytics

Junior Front End Developer | SinaLite

February 2017 - August 2017

  • Assisted in evolution and maintenance of consumer facing web applications.
  • Generated ideas to improve the user experience, functionality and business.
  • Created and maintained a clean user interface and a streamlined e-commerce experience.
  • Designed products and weekly marketing campaign pages to meet responsive and accessibility standards.

Front End Developer / Web Designer | Engage SEO

August 2016 - February 2017

  • Applied content on existing template pages for customer support sites with different languages using PHP.
  • Edited HTML files to PHP files and splitted into different components to reuse.
  • Designed one or multiple customer support pages and email projects.
  • Used Evophine Zoom repository version system.

Education

Coursera

Google UX Design Certificate | 2022

Codecademy, Code School, Frontend Masters

2015 - present

  • Online courses for: HTML, CSS, JavaScript, jQuery, React, Bootstrap, PHP, Python, Ruby, etc.

University of Toronto

Honours Bachelor of Science | 2007 - 2011

  • Majors: Forensic Science and Biology

Skills

  • Applications: Sketch, Axure, InVision, Adobe Experience Manager, Adobe Creative Cloud
  • UX: Personas, Journey mapping, Prototyping, Usability testing, Wire framing
  • Technical: HTML, CSS, JavaScript, jQuery, React, PHP, Python

References available upon request