About
Ziren Zhou (周子韧) is a Designer, Researcher, and Technologist working in the intersection of consumer product design and technology innovation. His work explores new design opportunities beyond the limit of current solutions and brings user experience innovation to our daily scenarios.
Experience
HMI Experience Product Manager - IM Motors
Nov 20270 - Present Ӏ Shanghai, China
Creating Something Cool inside Cars;
IMOS Multiscreen HMI operation system.
Hybrid Designer & Team Lead - XiaoLab
Nov 2017 - Jun 2020 Ӏ Changsha, China
Cooperate with developers as a hybrid designer, in combination with industrial design, user experience design and service system design, finding innovation scheme and coming out with patents for invention. Designing both physical and digital products, evaluate and iterate with 3D printing, realistic renderings, Arduino, XD, ProtoPie and Figma. Responsible for defining ux framework and design language of Unity based AR Game Maxism Go, WeChat mini program Ofuda and the update version of Harvard CBDB data visualization.
Interdisciplinary Designer - Microsoft Summer Camp
Jun 2019 - Jul 2019 Ӏ Microsoft Asia-Pacific R&D Group, Beijing, China
Team up with programmers at hackathon so as to develop integrated solution for Nocturia tracking and fall detection. Sharing interdisciplinary collaboration outcomes between programmers and designers at Hunan University to staff at Microsoft Research Asia.
HMI & UX Designer - Baidu Apollo Autopilot Project
Oct 2018 - Jan 2019 Ӏ Changsha, China
Created storyboards and personas as per users, and incorporated them into design decisions, resulting in a Multi-channel user interface and user experience design creation for particular scenarios for passengers. Participate in UX research for Baidu Smart Cars HCI Design Trends.
Design Technologist - Georgia Tech Robotic Imperfection
Nov 2018 - Jan 2019 Ӏ Changsha, China
Cooperate as a multi-skilled designer, develope high fidelity working prototype for both software and physical robots using Arduino SCM. Develop a code-free hardware prototype solution that linked Apps to Hardware using XD - ProtoPie - Android - Arduino workflow.
Designer Intern - Pei Rui Culture Communication Co., Ltd.
May 2017 - Nov 2017 Ӏ Changsha, China
Participate in new product planning and market & user research. Leading group project about future EV charging system design. Evaluate feasibility of design ideas, based on multiple factors such as appearance, production costs & methods, and market characteristics.
Education
Imperial College London & Royal College of Art
QS No.8 in All / QS No.1 in Art & Design
M.A. & M.Sc. Innovation Design Engineering ( Quit studying due to Covid-19 )
Hunan University
985 / 211 / Double-First Class University
B.S. Industrial Design Outstanding Graduate 2020 Core Courses GPA 3.74 ( Top 15% )
Award & Honor
Contemporary Good Design Glod Award - Xiamen Red Dot Museum, 2022
Goldreed Industrial Design Award - XiongAn, Hebei, 2021
Design Shanghai - Shanghai exhibition, 2021
Grand Prize at China Universities Industrial Design Competition - 2021
Dubai Global Grad Show - 2020 Cleaning a waste-filled planet, GGS
Core77 Design Award - Design for Social Impact, Student Notable, Core77.com, 2020
Gold Pin Design Award - Concept Design, Taiwan Design Research Institute, 2020
Excellent Club Leader - Microsoft Student Club, Microsoft Research Asia, 2018
First Prize of Central China Hackathon - Microsoft Research Asia, 2018
Microsoft Great Maker Award - Group Leader, Microsoft Research Asia, 2018
The Chinese Design Award - Nominee Prize of Product, 2017
International Virtual Reality Technology and Application Innovation Contest - Third Prize, IVRTC, 2018
Patent & Publication
Patent for Invention
3D tracking and positioning method, device and storage medium. CN202010734134.1
Conference: HCI International 2020
A Usability Study of a Brother Printer and Improvement with Ergonomic Recommendations.
Patent for Invention
Fall detection method, device and storage medium. CN111012359
Journal: Design, User Experience, and Usability
A Usability Study of a Brother Printer and Improvement with Ergonomic Recommendations.
Conference: TEDx HSANNU
The 3rd Generation of Smart Home and IoT
Skills & Abilities
Industrial Design
User Experience Design & Research
Interdisciplinary Collaboration
Material Exploration
Innovation Strategy
Service Design
System Design
Functional Design
Usability Testing
Photography - Canon, DJI, GoPro, iPhone, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Camera Raw, Adobe Lightroom.
Video Editing - Final Cut Pro, Compressor, Adobe Premiere Pro, Adobe Media Encoder
Rendering - Keyshot 9, Keyshot XR, Physically based rendering (PBR)
3D CAD Modeling - Solidworks, Autodesk Fusion 360, T-Splines, Rhinoceros
PM Tools - Mindnode, Xmind, Axure, Omni Plan
User Interface Design - Adobe XD, Sketch, Mockplus
On-screen Interaction Design - ProtoPie, Principle, Apple Reality Compressor ( ARkit )
Off-screen Interaction Design - Microsoft Kinect, Arduino SCM, ESP8266
Web Development - p5.js, Hype 5, Github Pages, Wordpress, Squarespace
Branding & Typography Design - Adobe Illustrator, Adobe inDesign
Office Suits - Keynote, Pages, Numbers, Word, Excel, Powerpoint
Productivity - Alfred, Paste, Markdown