Grace Yip

Grace Yip

She/Her

UX/UI Designer

Toronto

Grace Yip

Grace Yip

She/Her

UX/UI Designer

Toronto

Grace Yip

Grace Yip

She/Her

UX/UI Designer

Toronto

About

Grace is a digital product designer currently designing at IBM iX. Formerly at Motorola Solutions, IBM Z, and TD Bank, she specializes in creating intuitive, user-centered experiences that bridge business goals and user needs.

Experience

Associate Consultant, Application Developer & UX/UI Designer

IBM iX

2024 - Present

Designing user-focused digital solutions within the Adobe & Marketing Platforms Practice at IBM Consulting to enhance user experience and drive business outcomes.

Associate Consultant, Application Developer & UX/UI Designer

IBM iX

2024 - Present

Designing user-focused digital solutions within the Adobe & Marketing Platforms Practice at IBM Consulting to enhance user experience and drive business outcomes.

UX Designer Intern

Motorola Solutions

2024 - 2024

Worked closely with the product development manager, solutions architect, and developers to support new features and enhancements for the TLK 25 Configuration App.

UI/UX Web Designer

University of Toronto

2023 - 2024

Redesigned the University of Toronto's Innovation Hub website to improve the overall user experience, better meet AODA guidelines, and achieve stakeholder goals.

UX/UI Designer Intern

IBM

2022 - 2023

Part of the design organization for IBM Z Systems — helping transform the developer experience across all aspects of development, testing, deployment, and monitoring.

UX Design Undergraduate Teaching Assistant

University of Waterloo

2021 - 2022

Assisted in teaching GBDA 210: Introduction to User Experience Design to 180+ students at the University of Waterloo School of Interaction Design and Business.

UX Designer Intern

TD Bank

2021 - 2021

Worked cross-functionally with product managers, software developers, designers, and business analysts in an agile environment to prioritize, plan, and deliver on design initiatives

Education

Master of Information (UX Design Concentration)

University of Toronto

2023 - Present

Recipient of the Dean’s Master of Information (MI) Scholarship. Selected out of 2024 MI scholarship applicants. (CGPA: 3.91/4.0.)

Honours Bachelor of Global Business and Digital Arts

University of Waterloo

2018 - 2022

Recipient of the Merit Scholarship. Dean's Honour List for eight consecutive semesters and graduated with Distinction (CGPA: 3.92/4.0).

Awards

First Place

IBM & Adobe Design Competition

2023

Dean’s Master of Information Scholarship

University of Toronto

2023

Dean’s Master of Information Scholarship

U of T

2023

Pending Patent

TD Bank Innovation Lab

2022

Pending Patent

TD Bank Innovation Lab

2022

Top 5 & Honourable Mention

IBM Be(e) Innovative Challenge

2022

First Place

TD Bank Innovation Lab Hackathon

2021

First Place

IBM & Adobe Design Competition

2023

Dean’s Master of Information Scholarship

University of Toronto

2023

Pending Patent

TD Bank Innovation Lab

2022

Top 5 & Honourable Mention

IBM Be(e) Innovative Challenge

2022

First Place

TD Bank Innovation Lab Hackathon

2021

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