Weishun Kao (Luke)

Luke Kao
Luke Kao
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2 min readFeb 6, 2019

An interdisciplinary product designer/ strategist in Tokyo with a hybrid background of MBA and master in interaction design. He has 5+ years of top startup and Fortune 500 corporate experience designing product strategies and creating innovative user experiences in the U.S. and Asia.

UX Design Lead at WHILL | Yokohama | 2018-present

Intelligent power wheelchair startup named world’s most innovative company by Fast Company

  • Define the interaction and interface for new autonomous drive wheelchair in the airport and mobile app for existing products.
  • Working with product management and conduct user research and validate the designs through experiments in JP, EU and US.

Lead UX Designer at Binance | Tokyo | 2018/2–2018/5

Innovative blockchain startup runs the largest crypto exchange in the world

  • Lead the UED effort and set up a user-centered culture as well as a design language system.
  • Create useful, usable, and delightful new features as well as innovating on existing products.

Senior UX Designer at JPMorgan Chase & Co. | New York | 2016–2018

  • Play a central role in Chase payments and e-commerce experience by doing user research,
    analyzing feedback and identify needs & insights to evolve the user experience.
  • Deliver high fidelity schematics, workflows, interactive storyboards and design deliverables.
  • Present design decisions to stakeholders, rationalize needs against insights and business goals.

Founder at Embrace Assistive Robotics | New York | 2015–2016

Build an assistive robot for our seniors and start a NYU Prototyping Fund-backed and Stern 200K finalist startup

Creative technologist for multiple clients (Viacom, Yahoo, Cooper Hewitt) 2014–2016

Product Strategist at China Impact Venture |Shanghai | 2013–2014

  • Developed program partnering with Frog Design to apply design thinking to social problems.
  • Consulted clients on business model design, lean product development, customer discovery.

Master’s degree, Human Computer Interaction (ITP)

Tisch School of the Arts, New York University | New York | 2014–2016

  • Officially known as NYU’s “center for the recently possible. A graduate program whose mission is to explore the imaginative use of communications technologies.

Master of Business Administration

National Taiwan University |Taiwan | 2011–2013

#1 MBA program in Taiwan

Bachelor of Business Administration (Finance and Economics)

Chengchi University |Taiwan | 2006–2010

Super power : Product & Foresight Strategy, User Research, UX Design, Front-end, Fin-tech, Assistive design

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Luke Kao
Luke Kao

Designer/technologist strive to solve real world problems