Viola Fu
About / Viola Fu

Curious about people.
Practical about change.

I’m a customer experience strategist and service designer based in Hong Kong, with a background spanning banking, insurance technology and hospitality.

VfCUSTOMER EXPERIENCE
& SERVICE DESIGN

My work starts with
understanding the situation.

I’m interested in the moments where a customer’s experience becomes harder than it needs to be: a choice that is difficult to compare, an unfamiliar process, or a handoff that asks someone to start again.

I use research and hands-on design to connect those moments to the wider service. That can mean changing an interface, reworking a journey, clarifying a conversation or helping a team see a trade-off differently.

Through my independent practice, Kaolin Limited, I work on customer experience and service design. For MAANA, my work spans Annex’s pre-launch strategy and audience research and website and booking journey redesign. I also develop my own products through Kaolin, including Quickening, a baby-movement journal for iPhone and Apple Watch. My earlier work at Nanyang Commercial Bank and Protecht (now Teak) forms a separate part of my employment experience.

View my résumé
Experience

A few different
perspectives.

Independent Consultant

CX & Service Design · via Kaolin Limited
Selected client: MAANA, Kyoto

Nanyang Commercial Bank

Manager · Customer Experience & Digital Channels
Hong Kong

Protecht (now Teak)

UX Designer · Customer & Business Platforms
Los Angeles

Design & human-computer interaction

MFA, Media Design Practices · ArtCenter College of Design
BS, Informatics (HCI) · University of California, Irvine

05 / Supporting work

Protecht (now Teak)
2020—2023

Customer-facing products and the tools that support a business.

At Protecht, my work spanned client widgets, usability research, a crew-cover insurance system and mobile and desktop business tools. The widget redesign case brings together original interface analysis and design iterations; other projects remain summarized below.

Client widgets & design guidelines
Designed customer-facing widgets and reusable design guidelines for clients across industries, with a focus on usability and the steps toward conversion. Conducted usability testing and documented findings to guide interface work.
Ryan Specialty Group · crew-cover insurance
Designed a digital crew-cover insurance system, structuring a workflow intended to reduce manual processing.
ModernTransact · customer & internal tools
Contributed to mobile and desktop redesigns for a CRM used by internal teams and clients to manage deals and contacts.
Explore the widget redesign case