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[[File:HopatriciaHo Patricia.jpegjpg|alt=|thumb|Hopatricia.jpeg295x295px]]'''Patricia Ho ''' is a multidisciplinary designer who became a UIF Fellow in Fall 2017 with [[Fellow:Yumi Liang|Yumi Liang]] and [[Fellow:Chalisa Phiboolsook|Chalisa Phiboolsook]]. She attended the [https://universityinnovationfellows.org/materials-nov2017-silicon-valley-meetup/ Fall 2017 Silicon Valley Meetup]. She specializes in visual design, user experience (UX) design, user interface (UI) design, user research (UXR), and usability testing.  Patricia earned her [https://www.fullerton.edu/arts/Art/students/va-roadmaps/bfa-graphic-interactive-design.php Bachelors in Fine Arts degree (BFA) in Graphic & Interactive Design major studying ] at the [[School:California State University of Fullerton|California State University, Fullerton]] (CSUF) and is currently pursuing her master's degree at the [https://www. As a mixed Asian-American hcde.washington.edu/ University of Chinese, Vietnamese Washington's Human Centered Design and Hmong descentEngineering] (HCDE) program. Conjointly with her undergraduate degree, she was born in Clovis, CA, grew up in earned a User Experience (UX) Design Certificate from the [https://extendedstudies.ucsd.edu/ UC San JoseDiego Extension]. Apart from being a college student, CA, lived four years Patricia actively participates in Madisondesign communities, WIdesignathons, and am now living volunteer opportunities to use design and going design research to school create impactful, user-centric solutions.  ==Early Life==From a young age, Patricia had a strong interest in Fullerton, CAcreative projects and roles. Her experiences throughout high school art classes and experience as her life have motivated yearbook committee's lead designer & editor influenced her decision to become explore more artistic endeavors.  During the summer of her junior year in high school, Patricia was selected into the [https://www.csssa.ca.gov/ California State Summer School of the Arts] (CSSSA) program at the [https://calarts.edu/ California Institute of the Arts] (CalArts). After the program, she became a well rounded person CSSSA Scholar and she is constantly learning new things used her knowledge in art principles and digital media softwares to pursue a career in areas such art and design.  ==Education== ======Undergrad Years======As an undergraduate student, Patricia worked as coding a Marketing Student Assistant for her school's disability support services department and financedesigned [https://www. Patriciaada.gov/ ADA] and [https://www.w3.org/WAI/standards-guidelines/wcag/ WCAG] compliant marketing materials. She created her department's strong interest guide on creating accessible marketing materials for accessible technologies and trained staff and faculty in art motivates creating accessible PDF documents. Inspired by her student job experience, Patricia pursued independent research study under her graphic design professor on how to combine artcreate accessible visual designs in the digital space. This study included accessible color contrasts, typography and UI elements, design and technology in order resources on how to become check for accessible designs.  Patricia served multiple positions on her university's [https://csufaicc.wordpress.com/ Arts Interclub Council] (AICC), a designer council that plays a usefulprovides funding and resources for over 20+ student organizations within the [https://www.fullerton.edu/arts/ CSUF College of the Arts]. During her sophomore year, economic role in society by designing visualsPatricia was an Arts Week Events Coordinator and helped curate events and activities for the annual Arts Week, products a week-long event to celebrate all art-related fields and services that can benefit people’s livesdisciplines. In collegeDuring her junior year, she is actively seeking out work that allows was elected as the Vice Chair/Financial Officer and managed all the budgeting and transactions for student organizations. During her to use design thinking skills while helping others along senior year, she was elected as Chair of the waycouncil and conducted meetings using [https://robertsrules. Involved in com/ Robert's Rules], represented her school’s art interclub council at ASI Board of Director meetings, and advocated for the budget increases to support the council's student organizations' events and activities. ======UIF Fellow 2017 and an interdisciplinary club called Student Innovation Collective (SINC ()======As a University Innovative Fellow in 2017, Patricia worked closely with Yumi and Chalisa to revitalize [[Priorities:California State University of Fullerton Student Priorities|Student Innovation Collective]] (SINC) while having an on campus , a club created by previous UIF Fellows. As their UIF project, Patricia, Yumi and Chalisa recruited students interested in tackling social challenges through design innovation and equipping them with design thinking skills, resources, and projects. They organized design thinking workshops, activities (referenced from UIF stokes), and field trips to learn more about user-centric innovation and problem-solving. Patricia was SINC's Creative Director and was responsible for creative marketing assistant job materials, workshop materials, and brainstorming creative club activities and freelance web designing work on events.  Inspired by the sideUIF training and Meetup, Patricia seeks , Yumi, and Chalisa worked with SINC officers to improve her skills create and knowledge implement a design thinking competition in Fall 2017 and out of a design thinking conference in Spring 2017. In Fall 2017, SINC partnered with Push Humanity Forward, a non-profit humanitarian group, to create organize a design thinking competition focused on helping the homeless population in Anaheim, CA. Prior to the contest dates, Patricia participated in on-site interviews at homeless sites and design critiques to support teams as they built their projects. The design field thinking competition resulted in the winning team receiving $10,000 to implement their solution to helping the homeless and learn more about user experience was featured in a [https://www.ocregister.com/2017/12/13/cal-state-fullerton-students-apply-design-thinking-to-help-the-homeless/ The Orange County Register article.] In Spring 2017, Patricia participated in raising money and interactive organizing a designthinking conference called SINCing Out Loud in Irvine, CA. While Patricia has The conference was inspired by the UIF Silicon Valley Meetup and was free time away from school and workopen-to-all students, you can find her catching up on readingfaculty, running on and the public. SINCing Out Loud contained design thinking workshops and activities that encouraged group collaboration and guest speakers to inspire the attendees. This event culminated all the treadmill or trackknowledge and lessons learned from UIF and SINC, biking or simply catching up on sleepallowing Patricia's cohort to share their UIF experiences and learnings to the public.<br />==Related Links== [[California State University of Fullerton|California State University of Fullerton]] [[California State University of Fullerton Student Priorities|California State University of Fullerton Student Priorities]] [[Yumi Liang|Yumi_Liang]] [[Chalisa Phiboolsook|Chalisa_Phiboolsook]] '''Patricia_Ho''' [[Vanessa ganaden|Vanessa Ganaden]] [[Lorenzo santos|Lorenzo Santos]] [[Steven Debolt|Steven Debolt]] [[Category:Student Contributors|Student_Contributors]][[Category:California_State_University_of_Fullerton_(2017_Fall_cohort)]][[Category:Student_Contributors]]{{CatTree|California_State_University_of_Fullerton}}