UI Designer
San Francisco Bay Area
- Current
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- Senior UI Designer at LinkedIn
- Past
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- Tour Manager Assistant / Blogger at Vans Warped Tour
- Designer at Creative Internet Design
- Freelance Designer at Gigwidth
- Education
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- Pomona College
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Mike Lin’s Summary
Senior Graphic / UI designer with 9+ years experience designing consumer-facing websites, focusing on user-centered design, business objectives, and brand.
Mike Lin’s Experience
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Senior UI Designer
LinkedIn
(Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Internet industry)
May 2006 — Present (3 years 7 months)
As a member of the Core Experience Team, I've worked on the interaction / visual design of the homepage, profile pages, and global navigation.
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Visual Designer
Yahoo!
(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; yhoo; Internet industry)
April 2002 — May 2006 (4 years 2 months)
• Designed interaction and visual design for Yahoo! Shopping's My List product, which allows users to create personal lists, sharable wishlists, and publicly viewable Pick Lists.
• Designed interaction and visual design templates for Yahoo! Shopping's seasonal promotions, incorporating search engine optimization best practices. Clicks within the 2004 holiday seasonal increased 202% year over year.
• Re-designed interaction and visual design for Yahoo! Shopping actor & music artist pages - pageviews increased 52% post launch, and rose 96% year over year. -
Senior Designer
Sapient
(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; sape; Internet industry)
April 1999 — February 2002 (2 years 11 months)
• Redesigned Infiniti & Nissan vehicle configurators, which enhanced usability, added functionality, and streamlined the configurator process.
• Developed design style guide for the California State Automobile Association site, which facilitated offshore web development in India.
• Collaborated with team of designers to create visual design of Walmart.com. Recognized by usability guru Jakob Nielsen as having "consistent navigation, clean graphics, fast download times, respectable keyword search, and ease of use." -
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Adjacency
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Design industry)
February 1998 — April 1999 (1 year 3 months)
• Collaborated with a team of designers to create sites for Williams-Sonoma and AutoNation Direct
• Designed pages and coded HTML for Land Rover, Patagonia, Powerbar, and Rollerblade sites. -
Tour Manager Assistant / Blogger
Vans Warped Tour
(Public Company; 51-200 employees; Music industry)
June 1995 — August 1997 (2 years 3 months)
The Warped Tour kicked off in '95, and I hit the road as a tour manager assistant.
In '96 I designed the website and toured, writing daily reports for the site. In '97 I hit the road again posting photos and chronicles from the road.
It was great seeing bands like No Doubt, Blink-182 and Sublime launch their careers shortly thereafter. -
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Creative Internet Design
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Design industry)
February 1997 — July 1997 (6 months)
• Designed pages and coded HTML for ARTISTdirect, Baskin Robbins, and Hot Topic sites.
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Freelance Designer
Gigwidth
(Privately Held; Myself Only; Design industry)
March 1996 — July 1997 (1 year 5 months)
• Designed pages and coded HTML for Airwalk Sno-Core tour, BC Ethic, Epitaph Records, Green Day, Karina Marie Diaz Photography, Vans Warped Tour, and X Games sites.
Mike Lin’s Education
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Pomona College
Bachelor of Arts , 1990 — 1994
Organized and promoted several concerts: Rage Against the Machine, No Doubt, Catherine Wheel, The Samples and Skankin' Pickle.
- Activities and Societies:
- CCLA (Committee for Campus Life Activities)
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Mike Lin’s Interests:
street art, snowboarding, travel
Mike Lin’s Groups:
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Yahoo Employees and Alumni Group
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