Nicholas Wong
wongn.one@gmail.com · (630) 209-3328 · Naperville, IL
Open to relocation
Professional summary
Senior UX Designer with 5+ years of end-to-end product design experience across consumer web, e-commerce, and complex enterprise software. Led UX for products ranging from regional service businesses to industrial e-commerce catalogs to mission-critical defense systems including IBCS, the U.S. Army's primary air and missile defense command-and-control platform, where I designed interfaces for operators under extreme cognitive load. Experienced owning design systems, conducting structured field research under real-world constraints, and driving cross-functional design processes in Agile/SAFe programs. Seeking a senior IC product design role where the depth of the process is valued as much as the quality of the output.
Work Experience
Education
Purdue University
West Lafayette, Indiana · December 2018
B.S. User Experience Design · Certificate in Entrepreneurship & Innovation
Skills
Design
UI & interaction design
Wireframing & prototyping
Design systems
Responsive design
Motion design
Research
Contextual inquiry & field research
User Interviews
Usability testing
Task analysis
Journey mapping
Heuristic evaluation
A/B testing
Competitive analysis
Tools
Figma
Sketch
Adobe illustrator
Photoshop
After Effects
Premiere Pro
Process
Agile / SAFe
End-to-end product design
Cross-functional collaboration
Stakeholder management
Design systems ownership
Co-design
Design critique
Domain
Consumber web & mobile
E-commerce
Enterprise & complex systems
IoT / connected devices
High-cognitive-load environments
Defense / C2 software