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Director of Design & UX, MDes

Lawrence Chu

Shanghai, China
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    Lawrence Chu is an award-winning Canadian Chinese Product Designer. He is a seasoned design strategist and has been helping companies with product planning throughout his career. His primary focus is to help brands to succeed in the marketplace by bridging innovations with their audience.

    Chu’s designs have helped shape the growth of many companies in wide-ranging categories of B2B and B2C products. His area of expertise is primarily in Home Appliance, Consumer Electronics, Gifting & Premiums, Housewares and Lifestyle utility goods, Furniture, Audio Hi-Fi, and IoT designs where he has helped different business to obtain and grow their portfolio of proprietary patented design innovations.

    Clients: Target, Pottery Barn, Wharfedale Hi-Fi, Mission Audio, Umbra, BISSELL Homecare, Google, Nixplay & Nixplay Signage, Merry Products Pet Goods, Dongfeng Automotive, G.O.D HK. He is also an active educator at the Polytechnic University of Hong Kong School of Design where he lectures about design-thinking and the creative processes.

  • Education
    • Course Thing-Centered-Design
      TU Delft
      2018 - 2018
    • Master of Design Design Strategies
      The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
      2012 - 2014
    • Bachelor of Design Industrial Design
      Ontario College of Art and Design
      2000 - 2004
    • Kitsilano Secondary
      1998 - 2000
  • Experience
    • Director of Design & UX (Global)
      Johnson Controls Hitachi
      China
      Sep 2019 - Present (6 years 9 months)
    • Principle
      WWW.LAWRENCECHU.COM
      Feb 2008 - Present (18 years)
    • Lecturer
      Hong Kong Polytechnic University
      Hong Kong, Hong Kong
      2008 - Present (18 years)
    • Principal Lead Designer
      Nixplay
      Hong Kong, Hong Kong
      Nov 2016 - Aug 2019 (2 years 9 months)
      - Design and Brand management to product portfolio.
    • Design Manager
      BISSELL Homecare, Inc.
      Feb 2009 - Oct 2016 (7 years 8 months)
      - Innovation Management including consulting partner integration and advance concept development.
      - Strategic Project Execution through visual brand language and core attributes governance
      - Manage design excellence with leadership team
    • Senior Designer and Overseas Co-ordiantor
      Umbra - [Shenzhen - Canada]
      2006 - 2008 (2 years)
    • Industrial Designer
      Umbra - [Canada]
      2003 - 2006 (3 years)
  • Awards

    Red Dot 2017 – 2018

    Product Review Award 2017

    Good Design Selection 2016

  • Affiliations

    IDSA, OAID, IDSHK, HKDA

  • Industries
    • Consumer Electronics
    • Desktop & Office products
    • Kitchen, Bath & Home decor
    • Luxury Goods
    • Education
  • Skills
    • Creative Direction
    • Design Management
    • Ethnographic Research
    • Experience Design
    • InDesign
    • Industrial Design
    • Project Management
    • Prototyping
    • Sketchbook Pro
    • SolidWorks
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    @lawrencechu, member since 2003
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