01 SKILLs and strengths
Visual Design
Layout, hierarchy, spacing
Business
Understands company goals and competitive landscape
Delivery
Prioritizes efforts, efficient, results-oriented, self-managing, detail oriented
Critical Thinking
Synthesizes information, understands problems and presents solutions
Professional Maturity
Collaboration, initiative, communication, leadership, teamwork
Adaptability
Changes position when new facts arise, successful in a wide range of environments
Interaction Design
Information architecture, simplification, wireframes, process flows
User Focus
User research, end-to-end thinking, advocates for user
Hello!
I'M Kate Lau.
USER EXPERIENCE DESIGNER
I'm a UX Designer with 20+ years' experience working in-house and at top digital agencies, currently seeking new opportunities.
I pride myself on being easy to work with, adaptable, and meticulous, with a love for designing beautiful, functional interfaces.
If you think I might be a good fit for your company, contact me at kate@katelau.info.
Looking forward to solving YOUR problems.
02 PORTFOLIO
03 Experience
2022 - present
Kate Lau Design
UX Design Consultant
UX design services for companies across a variety of domains.
2021 - 2022
Invicti Security
Director of UX
Define and implement the user experience strategy for Invicti products and grow the UX function within the organization.
2018 - 2021
VERACODE
UX Architect
Lead the evolution of the Veracode Platform as a project lead and as an individual contributor, and implement Veracode's first design system
2014 - 2018
HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL
Design Lead
User Experience design for Harvard Catalyst’s Portal web applications, supporting clinical researchers in the Boston area and at a national scale.
2011 - 2014
SAPIENT NITRO
Senior User Experience Designer
Individual contributor across multiple accounts, including responsive design initiatives, transactional websites, and e-commerce.
2005 - 2011
VERIZON BUSINESS
Interaction Designer
Designed user experience and wrote initial copy for all customer-facing and employee-facing Verizon Business websites.
2003 - 2004
GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
M.S., Human-Computer Interaction
Psychology Track
1999 - 2003
CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY
B.S., Computer Science
Additional major in Human-Computer Interaction
Minor in Art