Great to meet you! I am Shu Tong, Pan ☺︎☼
Feel free to call me "Shu", or 潘姝童 if you're a fellow Mandarin speaker :)
I am a product designer based in Boston, MA recently graduating from the Industrial Design program at Rhode Island School of Design.
Today, I am a user experience designer and researcher in the medical technology space previously supporting products with Johnson & Johnson Robotics, Roche Diagnostics and Foundation Medicine. I am professionally familiar with the FDA/ISO/IED human factors guidelines and the general Research & Development processes.
Fun Fact: my spirit font is Montserrat Alternates, because the upper case "E" is exactly like my handwriting (a backwards 3)!
My next step is to gain experiences in a range of industries including healthcare, consumer tech, education, and financial technologies. Please shoot me a quick email or contact me on LinkedIn if you want to work together!
My Take on Design ...
I concluded a set of metrics that measure success of my own design works. These are derived from the work from great designers I admire, and from my daily design practices.
Good Designs should be functional — these are products that nicely perform their designated functions. Nothing more, nothing less.
Great Designs should be accessible — these products consider users from all ability and knowledge levels, and take empathy to their fullest.
The Best Designs should be emotional — best designs are those that provoke emotion, like your comfort blanket.
Monthly Reads
a.k.a. Books that has helped on my Design Journey!
Health Design Thinking by Bon Ku & Ellen Lupton
As health care systems around the globe struggle to expand access, improve outcomes, and control costs, Health Design Thinking offers a human-centered approach for designing health care products and services, with examples and case studies that range from drug packaging and exam rooms to internet-connected devices for early detection of breast cancer.
Information is Beautiful by David McCandeless
Facts, statistics, issues, theories, relationships, numbers, words - there is just too much information in the world. We need a brand new way to take it all in. 'Information is Beautiful' transforms the ideas surrounding and swamping us into graphs and maps that anyone can follow at a single glance.
Like what you're seeing here?
I'm always open to meeting fellow designers and potential future colleagues!
Don't hesitate to connect with me on LinkedIn or send me an email for any of the following:
✐ Collaborating on a project together (I attend a hackathon every few weeks! Reach out if you need a partner :)
✐ Summer Internship/Full time work opportunity (Oh btw, feel free to download a copy of my resume from the top right corner ↗)
✐ Questions about anything, really. (Who will say no to a new friend?)
Looking forward to meeting you!
