Photo by my very talented friend Kai Niu.
about tianyu
Hi, I'm Tianyu Hu Lange. I'm a User Experience Specialist based in the beautiful city of Pasadena, California.
My journey in the US started in the summer of 2013 after I graduated from Wuhan University in China with a B.A. in Digital Publishing. I had a lot of fun creating interactive content on different screens. Shortly after, I expanded my interest from readability to usability, that's why I chose to study Human Computer Interaction for grad school.
Video games have always been alluring to me but I never got to play much when I grew up, because students in China are expected to study for 12 hours a day! It took me no hesitation to choose Serious Game Design as my specialization when I went to Michigan State University's Media Information program. There I studied not just games for entertainment, but also for serious purposes like health and education.
After graduated from MSU, I worked at ABCmouse.com as a UX designer, designed learning experience that is fun and effective for the most challenging but rewarding audience -- children. I also helped build their user research team from the ground up as their very first UX researcher and research manager.
Now I'm leading user research projects in a major health care company.
In my free time I'm leading a remote team of 4 to build a product that helps people discover the most authentic food experience.
I also spend lots of quality time with my two corgi pups, but never enough.
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