Waikit Chung

Current

Industrial Design Manager - Shanghai Office at Speck Design

Past

Founder, Directing Manager and Editor at Product Design Hub
Industrial Designer at Asentio Design
Intern & Freelancer at FLEX/the INNOVATIONLAB

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Education

Technische Universiteit Delft

Recommended

5 people have recommended Waikit

Connections

165 connections

Industry

Design

Websites

Waikit Chung’s Summary

Dutch born Hong Kong Chinese Industrial Designer with passion to design meaningful products and to serve the industrial design community.

3 years design experience in consumer electronics/products, professional equipment and interactive applications on an international level for Western and Asian clients, including SABIC Innovative Plastics, Philips, Samsung, Cisco, Nokia, ChangHong, Lenovo, TCL, TEFAL, Freecom and more.

Currently living in Shanghai and working as an industrial designer and manager for Speck Design. Also a managing director and editor of Product Design Hub / Forums.

Waikit Chung’s Specialties:

Online Entrepreneurship
Internet Marketing
Market & User Research
Design Conceptualization
Strong Hand Sketching Skills
2D & 3D Modeling and Rendering

Waikit Chung’s Experience

Industrial Design Manager - Shanghai Office

Speck Design

(Privately Held; Design industry)

August 2009 — Present (5 months)
Founder, Directing Manager and Editor

Product Design Hub

(Design industry)

August 2004 — August 2009 (5 years 1 month)

Product Design Hub is the online community place, where industrial designers from all over the world come together to socialize and to create, share and find useful resources. Product Design Hub was born out of Product Design Forums, which is the leading online discussion board for industrial design enthusiasts since 2004.

The mission of Product Design Hub is to maintain a friendly and inspirational social environment, where a wide range of inspirational resources are shared with pleasure. Product Design Hub collects and archives the best resources to obtain different kind of design knowledge, experience and skills.

My responsibilities are: writing & editing articles, moderating forums content, organizing design contests and recruiting sponsors/advertisers

Recruited sponsors and advertisers:
SolidThinking, Bunkspeed, Letraset, Wacom, Corel, Alcantara, Phaidon, Next Limit, Adrem, Design Sketching, New Design Magazine, McNeel, Letraset, Wallpaper and more
Industrial Designer

Asentio Design

(Privately Held; Design industry)

August 2007 — January 2009 (1 year 6 months)

Asentio Design is a personal experience design studio with an international ID, UI and research team.
Designed consumer and professional electronic products for
international companies like Philips, Samsung, Nokia, and Cisco.

Highlight: Project leader for a design project for Cisco (USA) in which we have created a design language and product concepts for their first range of video surveillance cameras. Cisco has just launched their new cameras, based on our design. You can read more about it at:
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/ps10304/index.html

Extra responsibility: as an internship coordinator and mentor, I was responsible for recruiting and mentoring international and local interns
Intern & Freelancer

FLEX/the INNOVATIONLAB

(Design industry)

2004 — 2006 (2 years )

Flex is a design consultancy that creates new consumer products, packaging solutions for fast moving consumer goods and professional products for a wide range of high profile clients in Europe and the US.

As a freelancer I designed cooking, kitchen ware and coffee packaging for international brands.

As an intern I worked with designers and engineers and developed several new products for production; idea sketching, model making, preparing design presentations

Waikit Chung’s Education

Technische Universiteit Delft

Master , Industrial Design Engineering , 1997 — 2007

From 2001 till 2005 I was lead singer and guitarist of a Chinese cover pop/rock band 'NoodleZ' and performed on cultural festivals, Chinese festivals, musicbars, wedding and
birthday parties.

Activities and Societies:

Research for experience - product development & innovation in japan 2002 / ISBN 90-805993-2-8
This book was published as a result of a Japan research study trip.
The main research question of the research is ‘In what way will
products be emotionally intelligent?’ in relation to Japanese product design