Wenjun Zhao

Wenjun Zhao has over 15 years of work experience in the design industry. In 2006, they began their career as a Designer at Hopkins/Baumann, where they were responsible for page layout, photo research, assigning illustrations, preparing files for pre-press and correcting and marking up color proofs for KIDS DISCOVER magazine. Wenjun then moved on to Time Inc. in 2008, where they worked as a Senior Designer, designing Special Advertising Section single and multi-page stories for FORTUNE, MONEY, SPORTS ILLUSTRATED and TIME magazines. In 2012, they became an UI/Interaction Designer at Tapfame / MobileDeveloper.net, where they were in charge of visual, interaction design and front-end development for the websites. After that, they worked as a Mobile Interactive Designer at Softcard Mobile Wallet in 2013, and then as a Lead Product Designer, Cameo at Vimeo in 2014. In 2016, they became a Senior Product Designer at Uber, and in 2020, they founded Matchstick Interactive, LLC. Currently, they are a Design Lead at Canary Technologies.

Wenjun Zhao attended New York University from 2011 to 2012, where they earned a SCPS in Web Development. Prior to that, they attended The City College of New York from 2003 to 2006, where they earned a BFA in Electronic Design and Multimedia.