Our Team
Research Director - Qingxin Shi, PhD:

Dr. SHI Qingxin holds a PhD in Department of Informatics, Copenhagen Business School in Denmark. The PhD project was “Cross-cultural usability evaluation methods”. It involved three countries, Denmark, India and China. She worked with several usability consulting companies for the PhD project from 2006 to 2009.
She has 8 years in Usability research. The projects she has done include websites, software, mobile phones and products for many famous companies, such as Walmart, SAP, Amazon, Huawei, Novo Nordisk, Shopbop, Texas Instrument, Piaget, Bentley, Lenovo, Siemens, and Motorola.
Qingxin is familiar with several usability evaluation methods, such as usability testing, interview, workshop, survey and field study. She can do both qualitative and quantitative analysis.
Senior Consultant -Na Mi:

Researcher of GfK User Experience
Na Mi received her Masters degree in Dept. of Industrial and System Engineering, with a focus on Human Factors Engineering, at Virginia Tech, US. With the same research focus, she continues to be a PhD candidate currently. Meanwhile, she is a Usability specialist of User Experience Ltd. Since May, 2011, now become GfK User Experience team since Oct. 2011.
Na has 3 years experience in usability and UX research. Projects she has taken responsibilities of involve brands, such as Toshiba, Walmart, Texas Instrument, Bentley, Starwood call center, Shopbop, Nuance, Booking.com and many other domestic and foreign companies.
Research methods (qualitative or quantitative) include: usability testing, in-depth interview, participatory design workshop, survey/questionnaire and field study/on-site observation, content analysis and stat analysis (SAS, SPSS)
Senior Consultant -Yuli Sun:
Researcher of GfK User Experience
Yuli Sun holds a MS from Dept. of Cognitive & Development, Chinese Academy of Sciences. And she receives her BE from Dept. of Computer Technology & Sciences.
Yuli is a Researcher of GfK User Experience team, and she used to a Research Specialist of User Experience Ltd.
She has mobile experiences for Nokia and Huawei, and website experiences for Walmart, SAP and Amazon.
Support from the teams at:
• User Centric (40+ consultants)
• SirValUse (50+ consultants)





