Ruby Wu

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Education

Skills

Projects

• Yubai — Smart IoT Home System · UX Design & Research (May – July 2026)
  • Conducted UX research with older adults (60+) to design a culturally grounded smart home ecosystem.
  • Developed personas and multimodal interaction frameworks across displays, voice UI, and tangible controls.
  • Designed accessible interfaces and tangible workflows to balance ambient IoT with user agency.
• UW Food Pantry — Winfo Hackathon · UX Design & Prototyping (January 24, 2026)
  • Built a mobile app prototype in a 12-hour sprint to show live stock, filtering, and item hold workflows.
  • Added demand-responsive refill requests and restock notifications to reduce waste and improve supply data.
• ARCA — Smart Sensing Camera · Directed Research (September – December 2025)
  • Explored tensions between security and privacy; proposed detection blurring and scheduled privacy states.
  • Designed UI components for identity recognition and area exclusion to increase transparency and control.

Experience

• Seattle Parks & Recreation / Chinatown Community Center — Graphic Designer & Organizer
  February 2023 – December 2025 · Seattle, WA
• FUTURE IELTS — English Teacher
  October 2021 – June 2023 · Zhengzhou, China (Remote)
• Sweet Dental — Dental Assistant
  December 2021 – March 2022 · San Juan, TX

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