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Jury Member
Amy Ip
Design Director / Design Expert at Internet Social User Experience (ISUX), Department of Social Networking Group, Tencent Company
Shenzhen, China
Amy Ip is a Design Director / Design Expert at Internet Social User Experience (ISUX), Department of Social Networking Group, Tencent Company.
Amy has been guest lecturer/speaker at various university including Beijing University, Hong Kong University SPACE, and Hong Kong Polytechnic University.
Prior to joining Tencent, Amy was a Senior User Experience Designer in Microsoft at Redmond, USA. She has participated in various communication and social networking projects including Lync, Windows Live Messenger and Spaces. Amy was also the first Interaction Designer hired at Yahoo! Hong Kong in 2003, helping to integrate User Experience Design in the development process for Hong Kong and was one of the UX advocates at the Asian offices. She was also dedicated to developing design tools and repository to help teams work more efficiently, initiating the Pattern Library for Chinese language region during her stay at Yahoo!.
Amy is an Interaction Designer with a background in Information and Decision Systems. She received a Master’s Degree in Interaction Design from Carnegie Mellon University, USA. She loves to travel and has a strong interest in studying cultural impacts on communication and design.
