Helen T.
About Helen T.
Helen T. is a Senior UX Designer at Kong Inc., where she focuses on maintaining and scaling the design system to enhance accessibility and usability. With a strong educational background and diverse experience in UX design across various companies, she specializes in features that improve enterprise customers' data utilization.
Work at Kong
Currently, Helen T. serves as a Senior UX Designer at Kong Inc., a role she has held since 2021. In this position, she focuses on maintaining and scaling the design system to ensure accessibility and usability. Her work is essential in enhancing the user experience for enterprise customers, particularly in leveraging data effectively. Helen's interest in developer tooling and API management aligns with Kong's emphasis on cloud connectivity and API management.
Previous Experience in UX Design
Before joining Kong, Helen T. accumulated diverse experience in UX design across several organizations. She worked at NeuraFlash as a UX Designer from 2020 to 2021. Prior to that, she held a position as a Product Designer at New York University for one year in 2018-2019. Additionally, she worked at ServiceNow for three months in 2019 and at Alibaba Group as a UX Designer for 11 months in 2017. Her early career included a role as a Visual & UX Designer at Zhejiang University in 2016.
Education and Expertise
Helen T. holds a Master's degree from New York University, where she studied in the Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP). She also earned a B.A. from Zhejiang University, majoring in Landscape Design with a minor in Human-Computer Interaction (HCI). Her educational background includes exchange programs at Parsons School of Design - The New School and Queensland University of Technology (QUT), focusing on Graphic Design and Interactive and Visual Design, respectively. Additionally, she studied Industrial and Product Design at Chiba University.
Skills and Specializations
Helen T. specializes in designing features that enhance enterprise customers' ability to leverage data effectively. She possesses expertise in motion design and information architecture, which contributes to creating intuitive user experiences. Helen engages in rapid prototyping and usability testing to refine and optimize user interfaces, ensuring that the designs meet user needs and expectations.