Yanqing Zhu

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Senior Product Designer · Oakville, ON, CA

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Summary

Senior Product Designer with 15+ years of design experience across consumer apps, B2B platforms, dual-mode tools, and data visualization systems. Skilled at simplifying complex workflows through systems thinking and user-centered design in fintech, e-commerce, productivity, and location-based services.

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Experience

Senior Product Designer
OTT Pay · Toronto
Mar 2025 – Apr 2026

Designed product experiences for a fast-evolving fintech and merchant platform, simplifying complex workflows in ambiguous, fast-changing environments.

  • Led end-to-end design for mobile experiences across QR payments, bill payment, merchant offers, gift cards, and remittance, alongside web workflows for merchant onboarding, loyalty systems, and internal operational tools.
  • Translated evolving business requirements, transaction rules, and operational edge cases into clear user flows, interaction patterns, and developer-ready UX documentation.
  • Built and evolved the design system from the ground up, establishing components, naming conventions, and token mapping to improve consistency and iteration speed.
Senior UX Designer
Snaplii · Mississauga
Oct 2023 – Mar 2025

Owned UX design for Snaplii's consumer app as the sole UX designer, driving end-to-end experience design and continuous iteration across core user journeys.

  • Reworked the checkout experience into a modular, scalable structure supporting gift cards, bill payment, and cashback scenarios without re-architecture as business needs emerged.
  • Improved the North American experience through lower information density and clearer pricing cues. Earlier coupon visibility increased referred new-user conversion from under 50% to 73% and dormant-user redemption from 0.4% to 1.2% within three hours.
  • Led a data-informed homepage redesign, contributing to a 68.7% drop in bounce rate, a 20.3% increase in search CTR, and a 72% increase in average brands viewed per new user.
Senior Product Designer
AutoNavi (Alibaba Group) · Beijing
Apr 2018 – Oct 2021

Designed location intelligence platforms, large-screen analytics systems, and map-based operational tools for complex B2B and B2G workflows.

  • Owned UX design for Amap Smart Traffic, a map-centric platform for traffic authorities nationwide, redesigning the workspace layout and refining map visualization patterns to reduce information noise and improve usability. Within six months of launch, adopted by 300+ traffic bureaus and increased data feedback volume by 75%.
  • Led four outsourced designers and coordinated with 10+ PMs across 12+ concurrent B2B projects, including site selection, ad planning, bank field-force tracking, logistics, and audience insights.
  • Designed multiple large-screen data visualization experiences across traffic, weather, road safety, migration, toll stations, regional conditions, and population insights, translating complex spatial and operational data into clearer decision-support tools.
Interaction Designer
UC Browser (Alibaba Group) · Beijing
Apr 2015 – Apr 2018

Designed interaction flows for UC Browser PC, contributing to dual-mode product design and data-informed experience improvements.

  • Sole interaction designer for the UWP redesign of UC Browser PC, creating wireframes and prototypes for keyboard, mouse, and touch interactions. The product received 400+ ratings and reached a 4.6 app store rating within two weeks of launch.
  • Improved a UC India promotional flow by refining interaction timing and content hierarchy, contributing to a 20.12% higher click-through rate and a 14.08% increase in user conversion.
Interaction Designer
JD.COM · Beijing
Apr 2012 – Apr 2015

Designed interaction flows for large-scale e-commerce products, with a strong focus on transaction-heavy experiences and complex cross-business requirements.

  • Independently owned the design of JD.com's checkout system across cart, settlement, and payment-related flows, balancing business rules, promotional complexity, and usability across multiple categories.
  • Co-led a major checkout redesign to support mixed first-party and third-party orders, validating three solutions through high-fidelity prototypes and in-person user testing. The final version achieved 100% comprehension and 88% acceptance in all-third-party scenarios, and 84% comprehension in mixed-order scenarios before phased rollout.
Interaction Designer
Run Technologies · Beijing
May 2011 – Mar 2012
  • Designed workflows, information architecture, wireframes, interfaces, and selected CSS implementation for a public-opinion monitoring platform used by public security teams.
Designer, Web & Graphic
FLTRP · Beijing
Jul 2006 – May 2011
  • Built an early foundation across web, graphic, and marketing design in the education sector; recognized as a top 10% employee in 2010.

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Education

Wuhan University
Bachelor of Industrial Design