Mingli Lee

UX Design | Brooklyn | aibrandinsight.com

New York City Metropolitan Area

About

Hi, this is Mig! I'm a UX designer, currently learning App development and building products with vibe coding. Check out the app I made: aibrandinsight.com My Website: miglee.framer.website I'm a curious end-to-end UX Designer who always asks "why"s behind routine, seeks better solutions and initiates changes. I love to make complex concepts/workflows simple and clear for users. --- Strengths: Systems Thinking + Product Thinking + Empathize and collaborate with developers Experience: -Designed for startups, financial services, B2B SaaS products, internal tools, and client-facing applications, responsive web applications. -Focused on UX: understanding the user journey, user scenario, and use flow by interviews or contextual inquiries; develop and iterate solutions with devs and stakeholders; conduct user tests/ usability test with prototypes for feedback and further iteration. Interest: Travel alone with a minimal plan, meet with strangers and enjoy deep and inspiring moments. Currently: Based in Brooklyn, NY My dream workplace: Small team, hybrid, cross-functional, transparent, embrace changes and imperfection.

Experience

  • UX Designer at Freelance | Self-Employed
    Aug 2023 - Present · 2 yrs 11 mos

    Design mobile apps and extension apps with AI features for early-stage startups; help them earn their first paying users.

  • Associate UX Designer at Ontra
    May 2022 - Aug 2023 · 1 yr 4 mos

    Ontra is a rock-star tech startup (200M in series B funding) that provides legal services and a SaaS software in the domain of Private Equity, Fund Management, and Contract Negotiation. • Planned and conducted user research interviews and user tests; unblocked product decisions to move the project forward with findings. • Visualized user personas and role maps with research efforts, affinity map, and the JTBD framework. • Design new features in collaboration with customer experts, sales, and devs.

  • UX Designer at Cascadia Capital
    Apr 2020 - May 2022 · 2 yrs 2 mos

    Cascadia Capital Corp. is a financial service company. I redesigned both internal management tools and client-facing applications for them with improvements shown in data results. • CRM leads system redesign: streamlined the leads pipeline and improved leads utilization (+15%), efficiency (1.5x), conversion (3x), and the use of tracking functions (4x). • Redesigned the online application form (responsive web app); enhanced ID uploading rate (+8.7%), shortened application completion time (-2.2 mins), and enabled better mobile experience. • Initiated data collection: persuaded and teamed up with developers to gather important data metrics. • End-to-end design from needs assessment, research to product launch. • Built a smooth design-development workflow in an engineering-led team as the first UX designer; empathize with developers while speaking for user and business needs.

  • Freelance UX/UI Designer at Multiple Companies
    Sep 2019 - Apr 2020 · 8 mos

    • Provide UX review & product strategy consulting sessions for early-stage startups. • Design and create wireframes, UI mockups & hi-fi clickable prototypes. Clients include startups in the Bay area, Seattle and Michigan.

  • UX Designer (Internship) at ChatBook, Inc.
    Jul 2018 - Sep 2018 · 3 mos

    • Researched and redesigned the B2B SaaS web app, resolved major issues of onboarding for first-time users. Reduced the level of difficulty of making the first chatbot by 1.7/5 points in a post-release questionnaire. • Planned and conducted user research (usability tests); discovered 100+ user confusions and developed short-term and long-term solutions. • Collaborated closely with the CEO and remote engineers.