Hi 你好こんにちは

I am Liqian YOU, master of interaction design at UQ.

Welcome to my portfolio.

-- About Me --

As a master student majoring in interaction design at UQ with 2-year working experience in UI and UX, I strive to continually develop my skill sets to achieve long-term goal of a career in digital technology by using strong design and web development skills.

“I believe in the power of elegant minimalism in a world increasingly saturated with garish colour.” Over the last five years, I have specialised in graphic and website where I shift a variety of digital information into a more interesting, acceptable, usable and readable visualisation. Design is about people and for people. That's why I love travelling and want to immerse myself into different cultures, languages, and experiences to improve my design skills on people based.

Resume Portfolio

-- Skills --

OFFICE: Word, Excel, PPT, Keynote

Design: Adobe Ps, Ai, Id

Develop: Python, Html, CSS, JavaScript, C#

3D Sketch: CAD, Sketch up, 3Dmax, Unity 3D

UX: sketch, Adobe XD, Figma, Axure, Xmind

Video editing: Pr, Ae, Final Cut

Language: Chinese, English, Japanese

-- Projects --

Animal protector

It is a website that collects data from the wildlife of QLD API with the functions of recent news related to wild animal protection, the game of learning animal protection knowledge, the animal hospitals searching, and emergency chatroom.

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Design Exploration

My individual design exploration is related to the memorial tour. In spite of the two world wars, there have been countless wars in the world. Many people fought for their families and countries, but few have been remembered by young generations. So, I want to build a website which allows users to find and select memorial tours in QLD.

After conducting the world cafe method on week 6, I found that there are fewer data and information websites on animal protection, while there are many valuable animal datasets on SLQ. Our team named animal protector was set up in week 6 and we focused on developing three main functions: news, game, information and education.

Main Project

This website collects data from the wildlife of QLD API with the functions of recent news related to wild animal protection, the game of learning animal protection knowledge, the animal hospitals searching, and emergency chatroom. It aims at raising the awareness of how important to protect the endangered wild animals. Besides, viewers have a chance to learn basic information about endangered wild animals in QLD, including their inhabitants, description, distribution and potential threats. And there is a game called super animal that helps viewers to learn more about extinction animals.

As a designer in our team, I am responsible for the design and multimedia work in the whole project, for instance: sketch, storyboard, scenario, paper prototype, HIFI prototype, video shooting and editing, website visualization, game interface, etc. These will be presented in the following sections.

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Part A: Proposal

This section focused on investigation of the intended audience and domain research. The concept tools and design methods I learned from DECO 7110 are Use-Case Scenario, Mind-mapping, which I applied in the Part A. As our target audience are government officers, students, QLD visitors, citizens or any animal lovers, from teenagers to adults, I used storyboards and scenarios to probe user experience and behaviours. I was the individual designer of creating LO-FI and HI-FI prototype, storyboards, scenarios and two types of website visualisation.

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Part B: Presentation

In this section, I individually designed PPT by using Keynote, and was responsible for the workshop presentation on design section.

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Part C: Final report & product

In this section, I have individually designed the game interface including background image, characters, logo, button, etc.

Besides, I have individually designed the poster of showcase and composed our final project document through Adobe InDesign.

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Journal & Participation

The journal is used to record my design inspiration and process during the whole project. It is a tough work to insist on writing every week but it is helpful to remind me of what I have done for three months. I followed the course schedule and successfully built a website with comprehensive functions with my team members. Besides, contributing to the tutor and lecture’s advice and suggestions, our team achieved the goals during the previous proposal and presentation in the workshop and practice.

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Portfolio

In the portfolio, I firstly wrote down the text in the document and arranged the image and files I created in the whole semester. Then, I used the Adobe XD to create HI-FI prototype following the reference of DECO1800 sample in 2018. Finally, I generated the materials into the HTML, formulated the style in CSS and add interactions in JavaScript.

Homepage

This is the first and most important page that I want to show my audience. The image is from my home town—Shanghai, China. I used as the dark blue and black background with the contrast of white words to leave a deep impression on my audience.

About me

In this section, I want to present more about my working experience and life experience. I put two personal pictures about travelling and volunteer work to allow employers to remember me and know more about my personality.

Skills

This is another important for employers to know my professional skills and abilities. I use a bar graph to show my strong points, which gives the audience a direct impression on my techniques.

Projects

This section allows employers to have a comprehensive understanding of my professional skills and abilities according to the presentation of the projects. I put my course projects in the master study period as well as some commercial projects during my working time.

Contact

This section aims at providing a way for employers to contact me. I add the link to LinkedIn, Facebook, WeChat as well as GitHub, which allows employers to see my contributions on the internet.

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Course Reflection

It was a memorable time in learning DECO7180 Design Computing Studio 1 - Interactive Technology this semester, which is a new journey in my master study. In terms of the courses, some of the workshops are really helpful, especially PHP tutorial, which is new to me. However, the activities in contact are not particularly useful. We only discussed the class but hard to make a conclusion or learn something. In the aspect of JavaScript and jQuery, it is more efficient to learn online video rather than having class because the contents on the workshop are very fundamental, but still a good way to get suggestions from the tutor.

“Based on what I know of this course, I expect to be doing some website or application design, front end, back end and software development this semester.”

This is recorded in my first journal. During the 13 weeks, I have learned PHP, JavaScript and other design skills, methods and experience the whole process of design computing. In the beginning, I was worried about team cooperation and too much coding. But now, I make four friends with different skills and background, learning a lot from them and most importantly, I know how to cooperate with others to achieve the same goal. Doing more design and coding work-related the whole project, I have the chance to experience the project process which may help my future career.

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Hi, Stranger

This is a HI-FI prototype of a social mobile application called Hi, Stranger. It provides an online-offline platform that helps people get involved in social activities. Users can select one of the interesting group to find an activity to attend.

During the design process, our team conducted a series background research, including brainstroming, obervation, interview, etc...We also built tow iteractive prototype for AB testing. These valuable data helped us construct this human-based social mobile app.

Link to prototype

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MoodBall

MoodBall is the team project of the UQ interaction design program. It is a magic ball that allows users to detect and share feelings through music, lights and visualizations. We want to create immersive music modulating experience for joy and relaxation as well as to provide mental support through sharing and engaging with remote users.

Link to Website

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Catch Cash

It is a somatosensory game called Catch Cash. Inspired by the game Daddy Pig In Avalanche, I created a character named Yuri. The player stands in front of the camera and move the body to control Yuri. When catching the colourful diamonds, the user will get related scores. The game will be terminated when catching black diamonds and the Arduino gift box will open automatically. Players can get chocolates or candies as rewards.

Video prototype Documentation

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FoodCare

FoodCare is my research project during the last year of master study. It is a smarthome based food detection system support specific dietary for those with medical conditions. There are three modes with different food detection datasets and various interactions including pregnancy, vegetarian and seniors. Users can select one mode, login Costco account and upload the online shopping list. When Parcel delivery, the food detection system is working. AI camera on the crisper can detect food categories and monitor expired date and give voice feedback to the users.

Poster Thesis

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Tomato travel

This is a platform for travel agents to book tickets, tour, hotel and travel packages online and get the commission.

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-- Contact --

Please contact me if you have any requests.

Email: youyoucandlin@gmail.com

Mobile: (+61) 461 420 779