Rebecca Zhou

Lead Product Designer at Scispot (YC S21)
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Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, CA
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Credentials

  • Foundations of User Experience (UX) Design
    Google
    Oct, 2022
    - Oct, 2024
  • Build Wireframes and Low-Fidelity Prototypes
    Google
    Oct, 2022
    - Oct, 2024
  • Conduct UX Research and Test Early Concepts
    Google
    Oct, 2022
    - Oct, 2024
  • Create High-Fidelity Designs and Prototypes in Figma
    Google
    Oct, 2022
    - Oct, 2024
  • Start the UX Design Process: Empathize, Define, and Ideate
    Google
    Oct, 2022
    - Oct, 2024
  • French B1
    Diplôme d’études en Langue Francaise
  • Grade 10 Piano
    The Royal Conservatory of Music

Experience

  • Scispot (YC S21)
    • Canada
    • Biotechnology Research
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • Lead Product Designer
      • Sep 2022 - Present

      • Built the first design system for commonly used components such as buttons, dropdowns, checkboxes, radio buttons, and modals• Conducted competitive audits on both indirect and direct competitors for their strengths and weaknesses• Hosted the Dataroom and Scispot Pico launch events with the co-founders and prepared the feature recordings for slide shows of both events• Primary owner of Scispot Pico - a freemium version of their Labsheets and ELN• Created both low-fidelity and high-fidelity prototypes• Established research plans and set up KPIs to conduct unmoderated usability studies• Worked directly with two co-founders on sales pitch and product designs to achieve the company OKRs• Lead product scoping and grooming meetings every week• Conducted weekly 1 on 1 with engineers on the team• Drafted company’s first product map for marketing and remodelling purposes

  • Pixlee TurnTo
    • United States
    • Software Development
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • User Experience Engineer
      • Jan 2022 - Apr 2022

      • Refreshed the table view campaign page to a more identifiable card view that offers visual representations of the important features inside a campaign using Figma• Created reusable Web Components to replace any outdated customized UI components• Revamped the platform by implementing responsive and accessible components in Backbone/Marionette• Contributed to their design documentations in Confluence on font styles, colours, and company branding• Reduced the design debt backlog by 75%

  • D2L
    • Canada
    • E-Learning Providers
    • 700 & Above Employee
    • Software Developer
      • Jan 2021 - Apr 2021

      • Added animated loading skeletons to mastery view (course overall achievements) and user progress pages for better UI experiences• Involved in both the design and the implementation processes in various front-end components and projects• Created new D2L rubric components using Polymer 2 along with all related back-end APIs in C#• Improved the accessibility features such as focusable/tabbable events and screen reader clarity in the Mastery View and Rubric components • Added animated loading skeletons to mastery view (course overall achievements) and user progress pages for better UI experiences• Involved in both the design and the implementation processes in various front-end components and projects• Created new D2L rubric components using Polymer 2 along with all related back-end APIs in C#• Improved the accessibility features such as focusable/tabbable events and screen reader clarity in the Mastery View and Rubric components

    • Software Developer
      • May 2020 - Aug 2020

      • Constructed new mastery view components using lit elements• Constructed SQL table and C# scripts in D2L's LMS to track users' first visit to new components for telemetry purposes• Refactored old rubrics components to use the new D2L reusable components for performance and accessibility improvements such as keyboard navigation and screen reading• Migrated course overall achievement components from polymer to lit-elements• Built demo pages for biweekly sprint-end UI/UX meeting and quarter-end demo

  • Ethoca
    • Canada
    • Financial Services
    • 100 - 200 Employee
    • Software Developer in Test
      • Sep 2019 - Dec 2019

      • Reduced manual labour by 30% through implementing a system that automatically gets test results from Jenkins pipelines stages using JavaScript and Jenkins API• Extracted desired strings in Jenkins console output using Regex• Published test results after every build from Jenkins to Google Sheet using Google Sheets API and Google Developer • Implemented methods to calculate the raw data from build results published in Google Sheets to show the failure and pass rates of the last 20 days and classified build results based on week numbers• Initiated and designed dynamic dashboards using Google Charts to visually represent the test results and trends

  • Mappedin
    • Canada
    • Software Development
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • Software Tester
      • Jan 2019 - Apr 2019

      • Designed and implemented automated regression tests and stress tests using Jest for UI testing purposes• Ensured the quality of all front-end products such as Mappedin’s online platform and stationary kiosk has reached the quality benchmarks before being released to customers• Manually tested all new features and wrote corresponding testing documentations• Attended 3 testing oriented conferences held by KWSQA with other testers and examinedthe possibilities of integrating all automated testing jobs into Jenkins• Briefly worked on Mappedin’s CMS(Content Management System) testing using Java andKatalon which is a testing tool built on top of Selenium

Education

  • University of Waterloo
    Bachelor of Applied Science - BASc, Computer Engineering
    2018 - 2023

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