BRIEF ABOUT JUNHA
I'm a data-driven and rationale-dependent Product Designer. I studied Visual Communication Design at Konkuk University and later focused on UI/UX design at Humber College.
I began my product design career at STACK, a digital banking company with the mission to "Disrupt the traditional banks". As an early team member, I had the opportunity to learn the end-to-end design process by working closely with our in-house development team. I shipped and optimized various app features, including peer-to-peer payments, round-up, gamification referral program, financial IQ, bill pay, bill split, and more.
After STACK was acquired by Credit Sesame, a credit and loan company based in San Francisco, I started working for Credit Sesame's digital banking service, Sesame Cash. Leveraging my experience at STACK, our team successfully launched Sesame Cash in the USA, where I worked on various features such as cash back offers, payroll switch, and instant deposit. I also built and maintained the Design System. Later, I contributed to Sesame Premium, leading UX efforts for the company’s paid subscription model.
Most recently, I worked at Questrade Financial Group as a Senior UX Designer, where I led the design efforts for the QuestMobile platform. I introduced new product features that boosted user satisfaction, participated in quarterly PI Planning to estimate UX capacity and improve sprint predictability. I ran bi-weekly design sprints and enhanced the design system to ensure scalability and visual consistency across the platform.
WHY UI/UX?
My passion for design was shaped early by my upbringing and education. Raised by an architect father and potter mother, I learned to value both aesthetic intuition and thoughtful reasoning — two pillars that continue to guide my creative process. During my university studies in Visual Communication Design, I was captivated by the logic and structure behind design systems, even when it occasionally felt limiting. That tension ultimately led me to discover UI/UX design — a discipline that blends artistic expression with data-informed problem-solving. It was the missing piece. Since then, I've been wholeheartedly immersed in the product design world, where I find joy not just in crafting elegant interfaces, but in solving complex user problems through collaboration, iteration, and strategy.
THINGS I LIKE
Weight-training | 3 Cushion Billiards | Cooking