Steve Ling


Constant Iteration & Learning.

Summary

Over 16 years of experiences working with product managers to produce wireframes and high-fidelity mockups, and continue to work with development engineers deep in the codebase to come up with reusable and production ready HTML, CSS, and JS components.

Skills

  • Wireframing
  • High fidelity mockups
  • Rapid prototyping using HTML, CSS, JS
  • Responsive mobile friendly web design
  • Styleguides
  • Quick & quality iterative design process
  • High & quick adaptability IQ
  • Collaborative, team-oriented, and agile

Tools

  • Balsamiq, Moqups, OmniGraffle
  • Sketch, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator
  • InVision, Zeplin
  • FramerJs
  • SublimeText, Eclipse, Aptana
  • Github, Subversion, Jira, Confluence, Wiki
  • Hipchat, Slack

Environments

  • Twitter Bootstrap
  • Zurb Foundation
  • Handlebars
  • Python, Django, Jinja2
  • AngularJS, NodeJS, Meteor
  • Vagrant, NPM, Bower.

Up Game

  • CSS SASS/LESS
  • AngularJS
  • React
  • Django
  • Amazon EC2 Instance, AWS

Experiences

Location

@WalmartLabs | San Bruno, CA

  • Revamp the Sam's Club eCommerce experience to be responsive web.
  • Using Sketch and inVision as the main tools almost exclusively.
  • http://www.samsclub.com.

See work UX Designer & Prototyper
Jun, 2016 ~ Present
Location

Apptourage | San Francisco, CA

  • Redesigning an online tool that provides testing analytics for web/mobile design assets before it goes to full implementation/development mode.
  • Redesigned the homepage from ground up for better messaging.
  • Tweaked usability and UI flaws using AngularJS, Bootstrap, HTML, and CSS.
  • Become the lead on resolving issues around all user interface issues using Django, AngularJS, Bootstrap, HTML5, and CSS.
  • http://www.apptourage.com.

See work UI Consultant
Mar, 2016 ~ Jun, 2016
Location

Berkeley Electronic Press | Berkeley, CA

  • Redesign next-generation scholarly publishing platform - SelectedWorks.
  • Redesign the publishing platform from ground up by recreating interactions, wireframes, and storyboards that works for institutional librarians and administrators.
  • Implement finalized and approved user interaction flows and interfaces within development codebase.
  • Become the lead on resolving issues around all user interface issues using Django, AngularJS, Bootstrap, HTML5, and CSS.
  • Living styleguide built for company-wide consumption to get consistent UI across all products of the company.
  • http://works.bepress.com.

See work UI Designer/Sr. Front-end Engineer
Feb, 2014 ~ Feb, 2016
Location

Handle | San Francisco, CA

  • Adapted to learn Meteor platform and use Handlebars.js to translate mockup into code
  • Applied strong HTML & CSS skills to replicate pixel perfect designs mocks.
  • http://www.handle.com

See work UX Prototyper
Oct, 2013 ~ Dec, 2013
Location

CK-12 Foundation | Palo Alto, CA

  • Work with product managers and stakeholders to finalize every stage of the feature, storyboard, wireframe, and high definition mocks.
  • Hands on with implementation of the approved mockups using HTML5, CSS3, jQuery and other advanced javascript libraries along with Python based templating engine Pylons and Jinja2.
  • Hands on with mobile responsiveness of the CK­12 application across multiple mobile devices using HTML5, CSS3, and the Foundation Framework along with CSS media queries.
  • Responsible for UI Styleguide and implementation of the UI Kit for company­ wide consumption to get consistent look & feel across multiple company products and features.
  • Adaptive with different development and cross department processes such as agile or waterfall methodologies.
  • Lead a team of 4 designers to upgrade the company’s web application with relevant and current open source technology and frameworks.
  • http://www.ck12.org

See work Hands-on UX Lead
Nov, 2011 ~ Oct, 2013
Location

CK-12 Foundation | Palo Alto, CA

  • Implement innovative and creative user interface for the advanced online application for authoring textbooks.
  • Responsible the design of the logo and everything outbound/marekting related to the company.
  • Responsible in creating mockups and storyboards in turn to implement the application with HTML, CSS and advanced javascript libraries, such as scriptaculous and prototype.
  • Also engaged in hands­-on efforts to implement structural setup of the application by using Django and ExtJs, and using GWT as our base structure.
  • Designed and engaged in implementation efforts of the CK­12 iPad Application.
  • http://www.ck12.org

See work UI Designer/Front-End Developer
May, 2007 ~ Nov, 2011

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