About Ryu
Leader + contributor
Ryu, a founder of RealWorldUX, who takes on various UX consulting works and helps UX students, is a skilled and creative user experience designer and leader with a successful history of leading multi-disciplinary teams to deliver engaging UX designs – physical and digital – that enhance customer adoption and satisfaction. Ryu is an industry expert with 10 utility patents filed. Adept in providing hands-on guidance, serving simultaneously as a contributor and leader on complex projects. You can view Ryu’s profile in Linkedin.
Ryu proactively works on UX consulting works for his client companies. He works very closely as part of client companies’ multi-disciplinary teams, listens carefully to what users, customers and his team members have to say, then turns those voices into tangible user experience designs to help solve their problems.
Ryu is passionate about helping aspiring to-be-UX designers finding their ways to become successful. He participates in the Mentor Coalition at University of California Santa Cruz, HCI Graduate Program, and mentors some of their graduate students.
Ryu also publishes articles and videos to share his experiences as a UX designer. One of his Medium articles 12 traits of a great UX designer describes what kind of traits and mindset are needed to become a UX designer.
Morning runner
Ryu loves his morning run routine. Running in the morning gives him a fresh start of a day, making his body fully wake up. What's also interesting is that while running, a stream of positive and creative ideas starts to flow in to his head. By the time he's back home, Ryu's head is full of positive creative ideas that he can try and experiment.
