Résumé
Info
- Legal name
- Xiangrui Fu
- Preferred name
- Richard
- RISD email
- xfu01@risd.edu
- Website
- richardfxr.com
This is the web version of my résumé, last updated on October 11, 2023. Please use the PDF version below for downloads and prints.
PDF versionRichard (Xiangrui) Fu
UI/UX designer & front-end developer @ RISD
Experience
- UX Designer & Front-end Developer @ Fidelity (intern)
06/2023 to 08/2023
- Conducted market research and user interviews to determine an effective project direction.
- Designed and built a production-ready data-driven web app with data visualization.
- Collaborated with other developers and stakeholders to deliver a product that improved employee education.
Education
- Rhode Island School of Design (RISD)
- 2020 to 2024Bachelor of Fine Arts, Industrial Design.3.956 GPA. 6x Honors Designation.
- Boston University Academy (BUA)
- 2016 to 2020Graduated summa cum laude.
Projects
- Mini Synth (mini-synth.app)
- Worked with NGOs and refugees to identify digital education shortcomings.
- Collaborated with refugees to design a solution that satisfies their unique needs.
- Developed and deployed a web-based synthesizer app that is used to teach music theory and improve digital literacy.
- Ensured stability and offline functionality through extensive testing.
- Resulted in the creation of 184 songs and 1 teaching session in the first week of deployment.
- Machinist's Edge (machinists-edge.com)
- Conducted user interviews to determine needs regarding CNC machining.
- Designed and Developed a set of calculators and charts to improve operational efficiency and safety.
- Feature updates based on feedback from user testing.
- Weather Dial (weatherdial.richardfxr.com)
- Experimented with data visualization and animations.
- Designed and developed a performance-optimized circular barplot that is accessible to assistive technologies.
Skills
- Programs
- Figma
- Illustrator
- Premiere Pro
- After Effects
- Lightroom Classic
- Photoshop
- Audition
- InDesign
- DaVinci Resolve
- SolidWorks
- HSMWroks
- Blender
- Software development
- HTML
- CSS
- JavaScript
- TypeScript
- git
- Tailwind CSS
- Sass
- Node.js
- React
- Next.js
- Framer Motion
- SvelteKit
- Svelte
- Vite
- Vue.js
- D3
- WebGL
- Three.js
- GLSL
- Python
- Java
- Others
- UI/UX design
- graphic design
- product design
- web development
- accessibility
- Illustration
- photography
- videography
- CAD
- CAM
- metalworking
- CNC milling