Current Focus
Building products, visual craft, and clear decision storytelling.
I'm Wanshu
Wanshu, or oneshoe 👟 🥾 👠 👡 👢🩴
Strength
Judgment, taste, and curation with the goal to drive decisions.
Working Style
Research-backed, collaborative, iterative, and tradeoff aware.
What I'm Reading Now
My UX journey began as a child interested in visual arts and innovations that drive creative evolution, delighting in finely curated exhibitions and absorbed in well-crafted visitor experiences.
After an early professional life working in museums and graphic design, I delved into UX design exploring tangible interfaces and the fascinating world of large enterprises.
Navigating complexity, I architect workflows, translate needs, and develop solutions. It's immensely rewarding to be a UXer today, solving real-world problems with a human-centered approach.
I excel at visualizing and storytelling narratives that showcase a company's values. Through numerous projects, I've realized that technology and skills are just tools; the true value lies in constructing narratives, making strategic contributions, executing well-thought-out plans, and always keeping the bigger picture in mind.
Here serves as a catalog of my design and art passions, covering design, information architecture, color balance, and reflections on contemporary concepts.
When offline, I'm at the gym, swimming or doing yoga. I love floriculture, curated exhibitions, and Agatha Christie's detective novels. I generally like to make my surroundings tidy, and cooking satisfies my need to sometimes make a little mess.
Press
Values
Reasons behind user needs / Build products users love / User-centered design solutions.
Skills
Core Strengths
Product thinking, systems thinking, storytelling, strategic communication, and cross-functional collaboration.
Product & UX
AI-native product design, mobile app design, responsive web design, UX strategy, interaction design, design systems, user workflows, information architecture, usability testing.
Systems & Strategy
Product direction, stakeholder alignment, decision framing, research synthesis, roadmap thinking, workflow optimization.
Tools
Figma, Miro, Confluence, Adobe Creative Suite, Cursor, ChatGPT, Claude.
Development
Frontend prototyping, responsive systems, HTML/CSS, JavaScript, and implementation-aware design.
Work Experience
I've worked in these amazing places
2025-2026
TA
- Teaching assistant at the University of Toronto, supporting course delivery and student learning.
2022-2024
Sr UIUX Designer
- Led SaaS and on-prem product design across RBAC, SSO, SMTP, firmware updates, and log usability.
- Built clearer data workflows and shipped scalable UX patterns for complex enterprise use cases.
- Partnered with engineering and product to launch and refine a production design system.
2019-2022
CS Strategy Manager
- Drove data-informed strategy and helped secure 15+ projects across large and mid-size accounts.
- Improved interface clarity and data visualization through iterative research and validation.
- Aligned cross-functional stakeholders through structured communication and decision framing.
2017-2019
Museum Design
- Curated cohesive digital visual experiences with context-aware display design for visitor engagement.
- Translated exhibition narratives into visual systems that improved clarity and emotional resonance.
Education
University of Toronto / Information
Product｜User Research｜Data Viz
University of Leicester / Art Museum
Curation｜Trade History｜Economics