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luj2@mail.uc.edu +1(513)-223-1945 #406 707w. Martin Luther King Dr., Cincinnati, OH

“ For me, design has become a way to express myself, every moment in design is the biggest challenge and biggest reward at the same time. I enjoy all these and feel exciting to leave my mark on this world.�

CONTENTS 1

Droplet / Power Tool

2

Growth / Wood Stool

3

Copier Interface / Redesign

4

Icon & Visualization

5

Other Works

Industrial design studio / Individual

Industrial design studio / Individual

Perception+Form+Cognition / Group

Perception+Form+Cognition / Individual

Data Visualization & Photography / Individual

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DROPLET Redesign a kettle for people who like hot tea or coffee and also have need of high quality products. This new design also provide more flexiable user experience which could improve people’s life quality.

Only in Oct.1- Oct.7 2014, China has 48,000,000,000 people traveled around.

MARKET ANALYSIS Opportunity =

Cheap

better quality with a bit more than medium price is welcomed by more people.

Medium

Expensive

Very Expensive

Traditional

Panasonic is a company which produces high quality electronic products. It’s main design goal is to produce more high technology and beautiful products to improve people’s life quality.

Classical

Latest Designed

PLASTIC

BLACK

CERAMICS

BLUE

METAL

WHITE

WOOD

RED

PERSONA Workspace: Stay in their office for almost 5 hours a day Usually has a meeting in the morning Drive to home Sometimes travel to do business Share public facilities with other employees

Life Style: Like travel around Usually drink tea or coffee in working time Hate traffic jam but have to drive to work Love their life and interested in beautiful things

SaSha Age: 26 Location: Shanghai, China Position: Marketing Manager “I want a kettle not only has a beautiful appearance but also easy to pack when I go travel.�

TASK ANALYSIS Problems: Not very convienrnt for travel Lid is hard to open Safety issue about the voltage switch Unclear indicator light

Design Goal: Easy packing Conversion plug in Clear indicator light Multipurpose

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SOLUTION

TECH ANALYSIS Red Light: The water temperature is too high, you can not drink directly Green Light: The water temperature is low, you can drink directly

Lid Body

Yellow Light: The water temperature is medium, you can drink directly

Water Level Metal Base Heating Unit Base Cable Switch On/Off

Bottom View

Adaptor

USER EXPERIENCE

Ergonomic shape of the lid makes your drinking more comfortable.

DROPLET -smart your life

All in one design with smaller size but more function.

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GROWTH A new designed wood stool for people who like simple and elegant products, and also has a need for higher life quality. This new product also fits diferent environment. No matter in your work place or at home, It could give you the feeling like back to natural.

MARKET OVERVIEW Wishbone Chair: Hans Wegner 1949 Windsor Chair: Christopher Specce 2009 Branca Stool: Sam Hecht 2010 Ply Chair: Jasper Morisson 1988 Great Camp Chair: Paul Loebach 2014

Wood Joint

Wood Type

WOOD JOINT & WOOD TYPE

Wood Type BEECH

DOWELED JOINT

DADO

RABBET

LAP JOINT

PINE WOOD CAMPHOR

DOVETAIL

MORTISE AND TENDON

MITER WITH WOOD SPLINE

TONGUE AND GROOVE

ELM

INSPIRATION

This organic joint can provide stronge support for each branch.

Following the growth of tree branches from thick to thin.

Round triangle shape like a bike seat can better fits human body.

A curved seat surface provide more comfortable user experience.

SOLUTION

SOLUTION

TECH ANALYSIS

Organic connection of the seat and legs.

Triangled design of the seat.

Mortise and tendon connection makes the join more stable.

From thick to thin round legs.

PHYSICAL MODEL Material: Pine Wood Scale: 1: 5

GROWTH -back to natural

Designed by

JING

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INTERFACE REDESIGN By doing a user based research to redesign a user friendly copier interface. A more efficient and better hierarchy system which could give you a great user experience.

USER TEST Task Demonstrate and tell me how to SCAN and EMAIL a piece of paper To : zhang4yy@mail.uc.edu Subject : Hue exp_your name Transcription & Coding Yellow: action / Grey: analysis / Red: problem / Blue: feeling Hao: I want to go back to the main screen, but I don’t know how to.

Let me think. . .

It was in another job, so I would like to go back.

Are there any shortcut buttons?

I want to restart this machine.

“Home”, I see “Home”, but no response.

It’s so complicated, how can I do this?

The animation looks like it appears and then disappears.

Luckily it’s right there.

Define Task Step & Performance Criteria 1. Put paper on scanner

2. Choose email on main menu

I can’t find keyboard.

3. Put in subject

4. Put in email address

It’s easy to find a keyboard.

5. Press “OK”

It seems impossible to input the address.

USER RESEARCH

Rating result based on questions above Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Q5 Q6 Q7 Q8 Q9 Q10 Q11 Q12 Q13 0

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4

6

HIERARCHY & PROCESS Start Click “Email” Input email address Input “subject” “body text” Select scan settings Place original onto the glass Scan additional page More pages ?

Yes

No

Most important object : Current job status Feedback , help and general settings Less important objects : Detailed email information Scan settings Status bar Least important objects : Preview and CA

Edit Preview the information (Both scan and email) No

Send ?

Yes

Sending status :)

SOLUTION Redesigned Main Menu: Delete all the less imporatant parts to make the whole screen more clearly.

Reduce the icons only leave those ones which used more frequently.

Copy

Scan

More

Email

Redesigned Email Page: Pop out a keyboard when you click the area to put in an email address. Put a keyboard icon on the bottom corner to give user a second choice to use a physical keyboard.

Scan

DEMO

1 3

2 4

DEMO

Email

5 7

Scan

6 8

4

ICON & VISUALIZATION Identify the ‘brain icons‘ people have for some medical concept, design the medical icons which have better recognition. Develop a graphic language for an i2b2 temporal query.

ICON DESIGN RESEARCH Drawing from the candidates about the following definitions Digestive System: A group of organs that convert the nutritive components of food into energy and break down the nonnutritive components into waste to be excreted.

Common Feature: Human Body Stomach

Diagnostic Radiology: A test that uses electromagnetic waves to produces images of the structures inside your body.

Common Feature: Human Body Bones

Infection: Invasion and multiplication of microorganisms to host organism’s body.

Common Feature: Bacterium

ICON DESIGN SOLUTION

Diagnostic Radiology

Digestive System

Infection

TEMPORAL VISUALIZATION I2b2 system analyze

SOLUTION Elemants of temporal system End of

Start of

Male

Female

Time Line

Less than one year Any

Last ever

First ever

<1 Year

Occurs before(or after)

Occurs on or before(on or after) Perior

Between

After Occurs simultaneously

12/31/2013

1/1/2014 - 6/30/2014

12/31/2013

SOLUTION Example 1: How many male patients with digestive Disease take a X-Ray before having infection?

Population: Male patients with digestive disease Event 1: X-Ray Event 2: Infection 1. How many male patients with digestive Disease take a X-Ray before having infection?

Population:

SOLUTION Example 2: How many male patients with digestive Disease were ever taking a X-Ray and having infection at the same time?

Population: Male patients with digestive disease Event 1: X-Ray Event 2: Infection 2. How many male patients with digestive Disease were ever taking a X-Ray and having infection at the same time?

Population:

SOLUTION

Example 3: Find all patients with digestive Disease prior to 12/31/2013 and a X-Ray between 1/1/2014 and 6/30/2014 who have reported infection less than 24 hours apart.

Population: Patients with digestive Disease prior to 12/31/2013 and a X-Ray between 1/1/2014 and 6/30/2014 Event 1: X-Ray 3. Find all patients with digestive Disease prior to 12/31/2013 and a X-Ray between 1/1/2014 and 6/30/2014 who have reporte Event 2: less than 24 hours apart.

Infection Population:

12/31/2013

1/1/2014 - 6/30/2014

< 24 Hour

SOLUTION Example 4: Find all female patients with digestive Disease and have a X-Ray at the third day of this digestive disease and report an infection after 2 months but before or equal to 1 year.

4. Find all female patients with digestive Disease and have a X-Ray at the third day of this digestive disease and report an months but before or equal to 1 year.

Population:

=3 Day

>2

<=1

Month

Year

5. How many male patients have digestive Disease, an infection and take a X-Ray at the same time?

Population:

Example 5: How many male patients have digestive Disease, an infection and take a X-Ray at the same time?

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OTHER WORKS Works from other classes and inspirations from daily life.

DATA VISUALIZATION

PHOTOGRAPHY

JING LU

luj2@mail.uc.edu

#406 707w. Martin Luther King Dr., Cincinnati, OH

EDUCATION

EXPERIENCE

University of Cincinnati

Taiyuan Sub-branch of Industrial and Commercial Bank

Master of science in Marketing August 2013 - Present

Data Analytics Graduate Certificate May 2014 - Present

Product and Design Courses in DAAP College August 2014 - December 2014

Beijing City University Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Science and Technology September 2007 - July 2011

SKILLS Computer Science Excel, Word, PowerPoint, C, C++, VB, Java, Data Structure, MySQL

Data Analytics SAS, R

Design Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign

LANGUAGE Chinese English French

+1(513)-223-1945

Shanxi, China

Jan. 2012 - Jul. 2013

Analyst in Marketing and Sales Division Maintained key individual and institutional clients Cooperated in financial products sales, demo show and promotion to achieve annual marketing plan Generated of timely and quality data information on products Cooperated with Data Specialists to take charge of the statistical data summary, analysis and report

China Mobile, Taiyuaun Branch

Shanxi, China

Sept. 2011 - Dec. 2011

Assistant in Business Hall Involved in the customer services, products sales, and the research of rival and market competition Planned the whole project to launch the China Mobile Service Week in 4 universities in Taiyuan

Taiyuan City Min-kang Vinegar Factory

Shanxi, China

2010 - Jul. 2013

Marketing Assistant (Internship) Analyzed feedback from customers to improve product sales Helped build up the Corporate Identity System and established the brand image

Beijing Tianrun Automobile Trading Service Co., Ltd

Beijing, China

Jul. 2010 - Sept. 2010

Information Manager (Internship) Arranged ERP, CRM system, managed function allocating and serversâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; updating and maintaining

Ping An Insurance (Group) Company of China (PICC)

Jul. 2009 - Sept. 2009

Assistant in Marketing& Training Department (Internship) Assisted in making appointments with customers and evaluated their potential risks

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