CIBC

UX Design Lead

CareerFoundry

UX Design Tutor

Spiria

UX Designer

Enable Training and Consulting Inc. (Enable Education)

UX/UI Designer

Knectek Labs Inc.

Freelance UX/UI Designer

Various Client Projects  at Red Acedemy

- Came up with style tiles and style guides based on researching what the users need and what the clients want.
- Applied the style guide accordingly on the wireframes to make they look pleasing for the users to click through.
- Used existing animation knowledge to come up with delightful designer such as loading animation, interactive onboarding screens, etc.

UI Designer

UNIS - Universal Space Video Game

2D Artist

- Work with the director to draw storyboard, design layout and character with a given script.
- Animate multiple scenes from start to finish using traditional 2D methods on ToonBoom Harmony

2D Animator, Designer

Sheridan College

For my third year internship, I worked at Sheridan for their joint animation production with Communication University of China. I took part in the visual development and effect animation for this production, as well as post-production.

Summer Internship

I’m a UX designer who believes the best solutions should tell a story and make people feel things. 

I thrive when I get to navigating complex problems and uncovering hidden patterns to design simple, meaningful experiences. With my strong background in visual design, I am skilled at translating user needs and business goals into intuitive, compelling digital narratives.

I’m committed to helping myself and others grow creatively. 

I create to clarify my own thinking, and I design to bring clarity to others.

If I want to start my UX career in 2025.

Honestly? I might not take the conventional path.
The entry-level job market is tough. 
More designers are becoming entrepreneurs, having their own products or services to own their work instead of fitting into corporate moulds.

If I pivoted into UX today with no prior experience, here’s what I would do:

⇒ Learn the Fundamentals
Start with a recognized certification (like Google UX), then build with free resources. Credibility opens doors.

⇒ Find a Mentor
Connect with designers whose work you admire to learn from their path. Also, find your community, comprised of people who share your passion, to find answers when you are stuck. Remember that design doesn't exist in silo.

⇒ Build Adjacent Skills
Study business, tech or conversation design. Design lives at the intersection of user, tech, and business.

⇒ Embrace AI 
Build at least 1 product from start to finish with AI tools. This will help you build your own AI toolkit, rather than chasing trends and feeling FOMO.

⇒ Embrace Your Past
Learn to leverage your past experiences and make that your selling point. You don't have to start from scratch because UX is built on our shared human experiences.

⇒ Create & Share Publicly
Most importantly, share your journey while you build things. Your next opportunity will find you through the value you put out.



Instead of chasing a "UX" title, I would focus on the day-to-day activities I would be involved in and which projects align with my values.

There’s no one right path, just what works for you.

How would you approach a UX career today?

#ux #uxdesign #designcareer #careertip

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Jane Li

UX Design Lead | Sharing ideas to help you grow creatively

Here are 4 myths I had about creating content that I had to unlearn after 2 years of posting.

Myth 1:
There’s a perfect, predictable system.
Reality:
Some posts start as notes, while are planned for weeks, and there is no telling which one will take off.

Myth 2:
It’s all about the likes and followers.
Reality:
It’s about connection and having the passion to share ideas.

Myth 3: 
Every post must be 100% original.
Reality:
Build your hit list and recycle shamelessly. 

Myth 4:
You need to have everything figured out before you can start sharing.
Reality:
We are all figuring it out, and you don't have to have everything figured out to get started.

What's a content creation myth you've had to unlearn?

#ContentCreation #PersonalBrand  #CareerGrowth
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Design is easy.

It’s easy to push pixels on Figma,
But it’s harder communicating your design to other team and get alignments

It’s easy to piece together components based on requirements and documentation.
But it’s harder to push back and ask the right questions to uncover the problem.

The hardest part of designer’s work is never design
but to design the right thing as well as design thing right.

This was my first business card.
I designed it when I first graduated bootcamp back in 2018
Back then, I was afraid to label myself as "UX designer"
So my title became: "Graphic / Motion / UI Designer" 
trying to be everything, to everyone.
I wish I’d had the courage to own the title I wanted
Instead of tiptoeing around it.
Even though there are still debates years later over what to call a UX designer,

UX designer? UX/UI Designer? UI/UX designer?

But a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.

Until we all agree on one title, let’s look past the name
and focus on the problems we solve.

What was your first design role… and what do you do now?

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Dear designers
You’re not stuck. You’re just in the messy middle of your growth story.

Here is mine:
⇢ 2018: The Start
Moving from an animation background to taking a UX bootcamp
Feeling: “I’m ready!”
✅ Reached out to designers I admired
✅ Applied for roles matching my skills
What I Wish I Knew:
Be more strategic in applications. 
Find your people to make the journey less lonely.

⇢First Role: Visual Design
Feeling: "Is this UX?"
✅ Joined design communities
✅ Learned when to leave and grow
What I Wish I Did:
Attend more industry events. 
Ask more “why”, not just execute.

⇢ 2019-2023: Finding My Footing
Feeling: “I know nothing!”
✅ Found mentors
✅ Embraced being a "designer of one" before joining a real design team
✅ Realized growth often feels like confusion first
What I Wish I Did:
Document my process more. 
See change as an opportunity for growth, not fear.

⇢2023-Present: Sharing & Scaling
Feeling: “I am more than what I know today.”
✅ Sharing my journey so others feel less alone
✅ Learning to say no and focus on what matters

No matter where you are.
Remember that you are not stuck.
We’ve all been there, and you don’t have to figure it out yourself.


What phase are you in?

#UXDesign #CareerJourney #DesignCareer #PersonalGrowth

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My UX Design Journey (so far)

We often associate quantitative metrics when discussing design impact.
From churn rate to NPS score to clicks reduced.

However, what designers do often cannot be measured by an exact number.
Those immeasurable impacts include:
⇢ The dev team’s time saved by realizing a critical usability issue before any code was written.
⇢ The clarity a prototype brought to a fuzzy, high-stakes debate.
⇢ A preventable support call that never had to be made because of improved accessibility.
Those are the work designers do that shape culture and accelerate product maturity.
It’s qualitative, not quantitative.

They are just as critical as any number in a dashboard.

Our value isn’t just in the solutions we ship,
It’s in the problems we prevent and the conversations we change.

#uxdesign #metrics
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How are you using AI as a content creator?

AI-generated content is everywhere now.
You can barely scroll without wondering if (or how much of) what you're looking at was created by a human or a machine.

And as someone who hits mental blocks from time to time, I often wonder:
If AI can provide information, guidance, and advice on virtually anything. Is it worth it to spend time creating content?

Here's what I've realized:
People don't just want information. They want connections.
They want to feel understood.
They want knowledge, not from a textbook, as if it were a matter of facts, but from stories and perspectives that resonate with them.
They want something that resonates, like an idea in their head, but visualized in a way they never thought about before.
Like finding sparkles in the sand, or a gentle touch of a hand.

People want to feel.

As we integrate deeper with AI, the most important question isn't what AI can do for us.

It's what it can't do.

What is something you enjoy creating that you never want to use AI for?
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