Haiyan Zhang's Email Addresses & Phone Numbers

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Haiyan Zhang is an interaction designer, technologist and maker of things. She is Innovation Director at Microsoft Research Cambridge. Exploring new "Connected Play" experiences enabled by cutting-edge technology. Haiyan was formerly Innovation Director at Lift London, a Microsoft Game Studio; Co-Founder and Design Lead for the innovation platform, OpenIDEO. With over 50,000 users worldwide solving challenges for social good and used as the enterprise innovation engine for organisations such as British Airways, DeutscheBank, Harvard Business School. Working at the design consultancy, IDEO, she has created innovative tech experiences for community building, entertainment, and financial services. She has also worked with leading videogame makers on research and game ideas for new play experiences. Clients Haiyan has worked with include Mattel, Electronic Arts, HBO, France Telecom, Alcatel, Cisco, and AT&T. Haiyan believes in a holistic approach to design. Starting from user research and insights, she leverages her design skills to create prototypes, interfaces, sketches, scenarios, advertisements to reflect the user’s experience as a journey beyond a single product moment. Haiyan’s work is informed by her previous profession as a software engineer and user interface designer creating applications for the biomedical and data-mining industries. As part of a team of software developers from Excel Tech in Canada, she created an electroencephalograph (EEG) visualization tool for intra-operative monitoring which is currently being used in hospitals across North America. Haiyan graduated in 2006 with distinction in a Masters degree in Interaction Design from the renowned Interaction Design Institute in Ivrea, and has a Bachelor of Computer Science (First-Class Honours) from Monash University, Australia. She has lived and worked in Australia, Toronto, China, Italy, San Francisco and now resides in London.Innovation Director @ Exploring new "Connected Play" experiences enabled by cutting-edge technology. From March 2015 to Present (10 months) Cambridge, United KingdomInnovation Director @ From March 2013 to March 2015 (2 years 1 month) Design & Development Lead, Co-Founder for OpenIDEO @ From February 2010 to March 2013 (3 years 2 months) London, United KingdomPrincipal Interaction Designer @ From August 2006 to March 2013 (6 years 8 months) External Examiner @ From 2013 to 2013 (less than a year) Copenhagen Area, DenmarkPrototyping workshop lead @ From July 2008 to July 2008 (1 month) Interaction Designer @ From July 2005 to September 2005 (3 months) Web Designer & Developer @ From May 2003 to July 2005 (2 years 3 months) Web & Flash Developer @ From April 2003 to November 2003 (8 months) Software Engineer @ From August 2000 to July 2002 (2 years) Software Engineer @ From February 1999 to May 2000 (1 year 4 months) Research Assistant - Computer Science Masters @ From November 1998 to January 1999 (3 months) Teaching Assistant - Computer Science @ From January 1998 to December 1998 (1 year) Channel op @ From 1993 to 1996 (3 years) MA, Interaction Design @ Interaction Design Institute Ivrea From 2004 to 2006 Post Graduate Diploma, Interactive Multimedia @ Sheridan College From 2002 to 2003 Honors Degree of Bachelor of Computer Science, Computer Science, Film Studies @ Monash University From 1995 to 1998 Haiyan Zhang is skilled in: Prototyping, Interaction Design, Service Design, Flash, Social Design, Design Management, User Experience, User-centered Design, User Interface Design, Electronics, User Interface, Experience Design, Toy Design, Design Strategy, Human-computer Interaction