Harold Cai
Harold Cai is an industrial designer from Shanghai who then moved to New York City. He is experienced in the field of consumer product / UX design, design research, and brand development, and has a strong ability to perform concept brainstorming, sketching, and prototyping to execute the ideas and launch products with a multidisciplinary team. In his journey, he merges design and engineering to create inventions that explore the boundary between our relationship with physical objects, He believes a good product design always comes from a sustainable approach which is the ability to leverage the value between art, science, and business. As a thinker and maker, his mission is to effectively develop methodologies and formulate principles to present the technology in its most adaptable and sophisticated form, blending analytics, mechanics, and human factors to embrace the fundamental needs and push the standards.
About me
01
Clocky
Collaborated across design team, worked closely with manufacturer to validate and develop the concepts for the following product line, executing the overcomes with CAD solution and CMF studies
2021
02
NASA
Jointly carried out by Pratt Institute and NASA, aiming at design solution for the cleaning room inside the spacecraft. Collected and analyzed the data provided by the director of NASA design department. Carried out usability tests to validate the design proposals and provided a working prototype which which will be used for future references
2021
03
Alibaba
Designed and optimized the visual design of the Alibaba campus recruitment H5 pages. Completed research and demand analysis map, structure diagram, competitive product analysis to understand users' demands and aesthetic tendency
2021
04
General Motor
Jointly carried out by Pratt Institute and General Motor, aiming at Investigating solutions to enable better ease-of-use as it pertains to EV charging and the customer experience
2022
06
Hatchduo
-Helps Bay Area tech startups hatch ideas by leveraging a competitive advantage through brand focused design -Strategic Initiatives with partnership team to identify challenges to going forward Female in competition -Providing comprehensive R&D approach (Products, Marketing, Research & Labs, etc.) to unlock significant growth potential in different market sector, achieving successful fundraising
2023
05
Pensa
A world leading product design and development consultancy that offers the full spectrum of design and development services for clients in the consumer commercial sector, including furniture, electronica, medical packaging, etc. Product Definition with R&D: User scenario, functionalities list, roadmaps, Skill Set Insert My responsibility is to assist team to produce extensive concept sketching and development gathering/conducting presentation materials for clients, consumer research, mock up construction, computer rendering.
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2022
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My Approach
Unfold the future with tangible and digital intelligence
Design research / Strategy
Industrial Design
GUI / UX Design