UI Researcher at LG Electronics
Korea
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- UI Researcher at LG Electronics
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- Product Designer at Wireless Generation
- User Testing Lead, SAP at Carnegie Mellon University
- Assistant Consultant at NetPion
- Education
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- Carnegie Mellon University
- Long Island University, C.W. Post Campus
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Dongwhan Kim’s Summary
I anticipate how the use of products will mediate human relationships and affect human understanding, and empathize with users, their needs, and their aspirations. I support the design by taking a prominent role in delivering a usable user interface. To the end users, the interface is the key to both the aesthetic attributes and the functional requirements. I deliver pleasurable user experience with the interface through utliitzed HCI methodologies.
Dongwhan Kim’s Specialties:
Interaction Design
User Experience Design
Information Architecture
Dongwhan Kim’s Experience
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UI Researcher
LG Electronics
(Public Company; 066570.KS; Consumer Electronics industry)
May 2009 — Present (7 months)
UI Researcher at Mobile Communication division at LG Electronics. Member of UI Strategy/ Planning team. Research in the field of long term strategy of user interface for mobile phones.
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Product Designer
Wireless Generation
(Privately Held; Computer Software industry)
October 2007 — April 2009 (1 year 7 months)
Wireless Generation is a leader in educational assessment, reporting, and professional development for educators, Solutions are offered with real-time data about student progress and the capacity to use it to improve reading and math. As a Product Designer, I am in charge of designing information architectures and interface designs, developing user-centered strategies for various products in PDA and Web space.
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User Testing Lead, SAP
Carnegie Mellon University
(Educational Institution; 1001-5000 employees; Higher Education industry)
January 2007 — August 2007 (8 months)
Led the team in user testing and developing a high fidelity prototype of a composite application design-time tool for business experts of SAP users. User testing involves four month of user research, focus group, concept validation, and testing on our prototypes in various fidelity.
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Assistant Consultant
NetPion
(Financial Services industry)
May 2002 — April 2003 (1 year )
NetPion offers consulting in Financial IT services and various web services such as Call Center, Internet Banking, Web Education, etc. As an Assistant Consultant in Financial IT services department, I was in charge of consulting potential buyers and documentation on internal knowledge and processes.
Dongwhan Kim’s Education
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Carnegie Mellon University
MHCI , Human-Computer Interaction, Interaction Design , 2006 — 2007
Human-Computer Interaction Institute at Carnegie Mellon University provides an exceptionally well combined stages of iterative process. The Design stage involves principles of design and human behavior, the Implementation stage principles of computer science, and the Evaluation stage empirical research methods common to several disciplines.
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Long Island University, C.W. Post Campus
B.S. in Computer Science with Maths minor , Computer Science, Mathematics , 1999 — 2006
- Activities and Societies:
- Secretary, Korean Student Association 1999-2000
President, Korean Student Association 2000-2001
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Dongwhan Kim’s Interests:
Backpacking, Snowboarding, Golf
Dongwhan Kim’s Groups:
MHCI 2007, UPA, IxDA, IAI
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Design Research
Dongwhan Kim’s Honors:
Honor Student in 1999-2000, 2000-2001 at Long Island University
President, Korean Students Association
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