Dave Vo

Experience

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  Unique Nails

  Jan 2020 - Feb 2020

  Graphic Designer

  • Redesigned the business logo and physical prints to better communicate the brand's identity and values.

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  Circle K International

  Sept 2021 - Feb 2022

  UI Designer

  • Streamlined the website’s site architecture and content organization, improving user navigation and emphasizing membership opportunities for existing and potential members. • Assessed the organization’s objectives to implement a style guide and scalable page layouts to align effectively with their brand and their overarching business goals.

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  Maximalist Magazine

  Nov 2022 - now

  • 👽 Grew audience reach by 21% and website conversions by 55.6% over 3 months with targeted marketing campaigns.• Led the formation of the UI/UX team of 4 designers, redesigned website user flows and information architecture based on analytics and user feedback in order to clarify the magazine submission process and improve ease of navigation.• Partnered with 4 student organizations through strategic networking, securing 2 collaborative events in 2 months.• Facilitated biweekly creative workshops and outreach to foster a space for the larger UCSD creative communities. Show less • Reviewed 50+ creative literary and visual submissions, highlighting impactful uses of artistic devices, extent of conceptual development, and areas for improvement to advocate which pieces should be accepted for the next physical issue.• Provided constructive feedback for board members producing digital or physical submissions, ensuring the artists and writers effectively motivate their work and develop their creative perspectives in an encouraging, multidisciplinary environment.• Designed spreads for the pilot and second physical issues that sold 100+ copies, each page with an expressive, distinct visual style to communicate the zine’s experimental and unconventional identity. Show less

  • Product Manager

    Jun 2024 - now

  • Graphic Designer

    Nov 2022 - May 2024
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  UCSD Guardian Newspaper

  Feb 2023 - now

  • 🕊️Led 8 designers to produce print and digital solutions, distributing journalism to 380,000+ active viewers nationwide.• Increased new viewers by 306% and lowered bounce rates by 25.87% over 1 year by emphasizing a local-centered approach to high-impact coverage with cross-functional collaboration with managers, web development, and writers.• Presented wireframes and prototypes using SNO Wordpress and Figma in weekly editor syncs to openly communicate design decisions, real-world constraints, and outcomes, validating designs based on rapid feedback and project updates. Show less

  • Design Lead

    Apr 2024 - now

  • Graphic Designer

    Feb 2023 - Apr 2024
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  UC San Diego Design Lab

  Dec 2023 - Dec 2024

  UX Researcher

  • 📄 Shipped 25+ screens for a revised Figma plugin research prototype to better facilitate critical thinking and ideation, increasing idea unit diversity, self-efficacy, and optimizing task durations.• Led 20+ hours of usability testing, collecting data and uncovering patterns on user behavior in critical thinking and ideation through qualitative and quantitative analysis from surveys, interviews, descriptive statistics, and raw file data.• Collaborated on experiment design, protocol scripting, user study material creation, and research methodology refinement to clarify objectives and metrics for data-driven analysis and usability evaluation across conditions.• Presented findings to lead researchers to extract actionable insights from data, iteratively authoring a paper to an HCI conference. Show less

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  UC San Diego

  Sept 2024 - Mar 2025

  • Instructional Assistant • Data-Driven UX/Product Design (COGS127)

    Jan 2025 - Mar 2025

  • Instructional Assistant • Prototyping (DSGN100)

    Sept 2024 - Dec 2024
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  United States Department of Defense

  Apr 2025 - now

  National Security Intern