Full-stack Product Designer (strategy + design + code)

Mike Mai

Boston, MA

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Mobile & web UIX designer from Boston. Language skills include Chinese Mandarin, Cantonese, and HTML5. Since graduating from MassArt in '09, I have been designing and coding out websites and web apps, focusing heavily on user experience. I spend majority of my time solving problems. That’s what design is all about.

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Education
- BFA Graphic Design
  
  Massachusetts College of Art
  
  2006 - 2009
  
  I held the first and only live performance in senior degree project history. Performing Emcee Hao's hit single.
- BA Graphic Design
  
  Keene State College
  
  2004 - 2006
  
  Kinda Sorta College.
Experience
- Full-stack Designer
  
  Fullbridge
  
  Boston, MA
  
  May 2015 - Present (9 years 6 months)
  
  This role requires one to handle the entire design process—hence the word full-stack—going from idea creation to design to production ready front-end code. In addition, the design work is focused on enhancing the user experience of the platform, which includes: accessibility, cross-device responsive interface, front-end performance, information architecture, and right-to-left language compatibility.
  
  Daily routine includes the following:
  * Brainstorming and sketching
  * Wireframing and creating user flows
  * Designing and prototyping
  * Front-end development (HTML and CSS)
  * Maintaining a living style guide (of user interface elements) for developers and designers
  * Analyzing recorded sessions of users interacting with the platform
  * Doing quality assurance on user experience and information architecture
- Designer & make-believe rapper
  
  Mike Mai Network
  
  Jun 2004 - Present (20 years 5 months)
  
  Great design requires both form and function, favoring one over the other will greatly affect a design’s ability to communicate. Balancing the two is something I OCD on every single day. I'm a one-man team that offers powerful web and mobile UIX design. On the fun side, I create designer parodies such as the viral helveticasux.com, iloveeurostile.com, and noprobono.info.
- Product Designer
  
  Sonicbids
  
  May 2013 - May 2015 (2 years)
  
  Re-inventing the music career platform. Doing my best to deliver better and better UX and UI.
- Chief Creative Mechanic
  
  Bluetrain Mobile
  
  Jul 2010 - May 2013 (2 years 10 months)
  
  Oversee all creative processes happening at Bluetrain Mobile for graphic design, web/mobile design and user experience design while providing creative input for digital marketing, SEO and SEM.
- Graphic Designer
  
  Contour Design, Inc.
  
  Jun 2010 - Jul 2010 (1 month)
  
  Design packages and graphics for the Contour products.
- Freelance Designer
  
  what!design
  
  May 2009 - Jun 2010 (1 year 1 month)
  
  I'm the web guy here but I do print stuff as well, mostly for Reebok and Ulysses Press.
- Computer Arts Center Monitor
  
  Massachusetts College of Art
  
  Sep 2007 - Aug 2009 (1 year 11 months)
  
  Troubleshoot hardware and software in the Computer Arts Center.
- Intern Designer
  
  Rival Marketing
  
  Jun 2008 - May 2009 (11 months)
  
  Designing weekly banners for Safeway and miscellaneous stuff for how2heroes.
- Assistant Professor
  
  Massachusetts College of Art
  
  Jun 2008 - Aug 2008 (2 months)
  
  Teach graphic design fundamentals to middle school and high school kids.
- Marketing Assistant/Graphic Designer
  
  United Cerebral Palsy
  
  Sep 2006 - May 2008 (1 year 8 months)
  
  Design brochures, post cards, book covers, invitations, booklets, and editing web contents and promotional videos for the MetroBoston chapter.
- Graphic Designer
  
  Keene State College
  
  Sep 2004 - May 2006 (1 year 8 months)
  
  Design posters, event invites, post cards, school calendars, and websites.
Awards

Awards have become more and more about who you know, so I will stop updating this.

2011 MITX Interactive Awards Finalist

2011 GDUSA American Graphic Design Award: What?! Design Website & Bella Should Have Dumped Edward (Book Cover)

2011 Dwell World Views Photo Book Featured Photo

2010 AIGA Fellow Award Committee Member

2009 Package & Design Magazine Feature

2009 AIGA BoNE Show Committee Member

2009 AIGA Cross-Cultural Design Competition Honorable Mention

2009 Future Arts: An Urban Oasis Featured Artist

2009 Pecha Kucha Boston #10 Featured Speaker

2009 MassArt All School Show Graphic Design Award

2009 MassArt Graphic Design Department Merit Award

2009 Art Directors Club Portfolio Review Participant

2008 Democracy* Exhibition Featured Artist & Curator

2008 UCP National Ritter Legacy Award for Excellence in Multimedia

2000 New Hampshire Yearbook Cover Competition 1st Place
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Mike Mai

Assistant Professor - Educator, Industrial Design, Myron E. Ullman, Jr. School of Design

Assistant Professor, Graphic Design