Gina Hsu

Contact

Design Skills

Illustration / Photography / Branding Typography / Print Design / Ux Design Wireframing / Storyboarding

Software Skills

  • Illustrator
  • InDesign
  • Adobe XD
  • Vectorworks
  • Figma
  • HTML
  • Photoshop
  • After Effects
  • InVision
  • Freehand
  • Lightroom
  • SketchUp

Interests

Piano / Photography / Music Kayaking / Cinema / Travelling / Theatre / Sewing / Tea / 3D Modelling / Snowboarding

Lanuages

  • English
  • > Native
  • Mandarin
  • > Proficient
  • Japanese
  • > Elementary

About Me

Bilingual student at the University of Waterloo with a curiosity to learn about human-centered design. Interested in user experience deisng, user interface and graphic design. A detail oriented team player with excellent leadership skills and strong oral and written communication skills.

Experience

  • # Jun 2017 > Aug 2017
    Summer Session Monitor @ Burnaby North Secondary

    • In charge of collecting, scanning and distributing attendance and notices
    • Filtering order slips, distributing and allocating textbooks to classrooms
    • communicated with teachers to gather necessary resources

  • # Apr 2015, Apr 2016, Apr 2017
    Seasonal Warehouse Employee @ Plenty

    • Tagging clothing items with prices for sales promotion
    • Greeting customers and answering their queries
    • Helped with organization of clothing racks for inventory tracking purposes

Volunteer Experience

    • # Sep 2015 > Jun 2017
      Teaching Assitant @ Tzu Chi Academy

    • Teaching children between the ages of 5 to 10 year old
    • Working with teachers to develop lesson plans and instructive material for classes
    • Prepared activities to teach about Chinese and western traditions
    • # Jun 2016 > Jun 2017
      Graduation Council Executive @ Burnaby North Secondary

    • Raised over $2000 in the span of 2 months
    • Orchestrated events for over 200 students
    • Designed and distributed apparel for the graduating class

Education

# Sep 2017 > Jun 2021
Global Business and Digital Arts @ University of Waterloo
Pursuing Bachelors at the Stratford School of Interaction Design and Business
Minoring in Legal Studies

# Sep 2012 > Jun 2017
Dogwood Diploma @ Burnaby North Secondary School
Graduated with honours

Project

# Oct 2017 > Dec 2017 Main wirefram and interactive prototype desinger
Prototyped using AdobeXD as well as Adobe Photoshop for the logo
Usability testing done with over ten people