Zijun KangUI/UX Designer

Philadelphia, PA

Experience

Mar 2025 – Sep 2025 · Internship · Unreleased redesign

UI Designer & Web Developer

Collaborated with a teammate to redesign a creative-studio website, using team audience profiles, task flows, and a site audit to inform UI exploration.
Designed wireframes and high-fidelity pages with separate entry points for corporate groups, private parties, and public workshops; structured activity details, logistics, and inquiry actions.
Translated Figma layouts into WordPress PHP templates and shared navigation, maintaining a consistent visual language across workshop and private-experience pages.

Mar 2024 – Sep 2024

UI/UX Designer

Collaborated on custom client websites, aligning interface design with brand identity and revising layouts in response to user feedback and changing requirements.

Mar 2023 – Sep 2023

Web Developer

Designed a memorial website, researched imagery, and wrote section content; coordinated with developers to integrate the visual design and site functionality.

Drexel team project · Sep 2024 – Spring 2025 · Unreleased website

UX Lead

Served as UX Lead on a three-person team designing a unified music and events website; contributed to research, task flows, UI design, and responsive prototype iterations.
Used prototype survey feedback to prioritize event-list browsing while retaining a calendar option; collaborated on typography, component consistency, and music/social-link visibility.
Developed WordPress event overview and detail pages, responsive navigation, and the footer, connecting event information through custom fields to support reusable content layouts.

Drexel team coursework · Fall 2023 – Winter 2024

UX Designer & Front-end Developer

Conducted field observation and contributed research synthesis, sketches, and affinity mapping to a mobile ordering concept for a campus food truck.
Collaborated on prototype revisions that separated customization choices, clarified progress controls, and refined visual hierarchy; continued UX work into the development course.

Drexel academic concept · Spring 2023

Interaction Design & Motion Prototyping

Mapped a Pilates class-booking journey and created wireflows, Figma interfaces, interaction specifications, and After Effects demonstrations for selection and confirmation states.

BS in Westphal Studies · 2026

Minor in User Experience & Interactive Design

A. J. Drexel Scholarship

Design: User research, synthesis, affinity mapping, task flows, wireframing, prototyping, UI and interaction design
Tools & implementation: Figma, Adobe Creative Suite, After Effects, HTML/CSS/JavaScript, WordPress
Languages: English, Mandarin