Adrian Chong

Current

• Senior Interaction Architect at Blast Radius

Past

• Interaction Architect at Blast Radius
• User Experience Consultant at nForm
• Quality Assurance at Electronic Arts

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Education

• Pratt Institute
• Simon Fraser University
• Italia Design (SFU)

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Connections

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Industry

Design

Websites

• My Blog
• My Portfolio
• Twitter

Adrian Chong’s Summary

Adrian Chong is an Interaction Architect at Blast Radius New York. He received his formal education from Simon Fraser University in Interaction Design. Adrian has worked for Electronic Arts Inc and nForm User Experience previous to his current employment with Blast Radius.

His primary interests are social software, continuous computing, user research, information architecture, and interaction design.

Adrian Chong’s Specialties:

Usability Testing, User Experience, Interaction Design, Information Architecture

Adrian Chong’s Experience

• Senior Interaction Architect

  Blast Radius

  (Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Internet industry)

  July 2008 — Present (1 year 1 month)

  Duties included:
  Concepting, Card Sorting, User and Stakeholder Interviews, Usability Testing, Prototyping, Wireframes, Site Maps, Flow Diagrams, Client Facing, Knowledge Sharing, Mentorship of Junior IAs, New Hire Interviews

• Interaction Architect

  Blast Radius

  (Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Internet industry)

  June 2006 — June 2008 (2 years 1 month)

  Lead UX and was client facing on accounts for:
  -Canadian Tourism Commission
  -Electronic Arts
  -Nintendo of America
  -Quiksilver
  -Starbucks
  -Visa
  
  Executed UX work for:
  -Electronic Arts
  -Intrawest
  -Jenny Craig
  -Meredith
  -Nike
  -Polo Ralph Lauren
  
  
  Duties included:
  Concepting, Card Sorting, User and Stakeholder Interviews, Usability Testing, Prototyping, Wireframes, Site Maps, Flow Diagrams, Client Facing, Knowledge Sharing

• User Experience Consultant

  nForm

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Internet industry)

  September 2005 — June 2006 (10 months)

  Executed UX work for:
  -Comcast Communications
  -University of Alberta Libraries
  -ATCO Blue Flame Kitchen
  -Alberta Teachers Association
  -Alberta Centennial
  -Alberta Learning Information Service
  
  Duties included:
  User Interviews, Usability Testing, Prototyping, Wireframes, Site Maps, Flow Diagrams, Alignment Modeling, Persona Creation, Heuristic Evaluation, Competitive Analysis, Affinity Diagraming, Use Cases

• Quality Assurance

  Electronic Arts

  (Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; ERTS-Q; Computer Games industry)

  March 2005 — September 2005 (7 months)

  Executed Test Plans for:
  -MVP 06 Baseball
  -Marvel Nemesis
  -NHL 06
  
  Duties included:
  Creating and executing test plans to ensure bug free software

Adrian Chong’s Education

• Pratt Institute

  Master , Design Management , 2009 — 2011 (expected)

• Simon Fraser University

  B.Sc. , Interaction Design , 2001 — 2005

  School of Interactive Arts and Technology, Formerly known as TechBC

  Activities and Societies:

  Director - FlowByDesign

• Italia Design (SFU)

  Field School Study 2004 — 2004

  Studied Italian history and toured Italian design firms completing 6 intense team based design projects.
  
  http://www.sfu.ca/italiadesign/

Additional Information

Adrian Chong’s Websites:

• My Blog
• My Portfolio
• Twitter

Adrian Chong’s Interests:

Continuous Computing, Ubiquitous Computing, Natural Interaction, Semantic Web, Social Software, Sustainable Design, Multi-Modal Interaction, Design Thinking, Architecture, Hockey, Tennis

Adrian Chong’s Groups:

•    Interaction Design Association
•    Boxes and Arrows
•    Simon Fraser University Alumni
•    Information Architecture Institute (IAI)
•    User Experience
•    Blast Radius Alumni
•    EA Alumni Group
•    School of Interactive Arts + Technology(SIAT)
•    TechBC Alumni

Adrian Chong’s Honors:

2009 - Q1 Ace Award for Excellence
2008 - Internet Retailer: Hot 100 Retail Web sites - Roxy.com
2008 - FITC Design + Technology E-Commerce Award - Jordan Flight Club
2007 - Exception external Client Service

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