2023 → Now
I redesigned Figma’s product suite with Ryhan Hassan, Tim van Damme, and Joel Miller. Together, we built a unified design language that centered the canvas, simplified years of accumulated complexity, and worked with our team to tailor to their needs. I helped drive adoption across the company, partnering closely with ICs across PDE to ensure the system shipped on time and supported Figma’s next generation of products.
I created Figma’s design system (called the Figma Pattern Library aka FPL) with Ryhan Hassan, Ricky Chen, and Tim van Damme, and so many XFN partners. We developed shared libraries across design and code for components, color tokens, icons, and sticker sheets. I drove education and adoption across teams to help the system come online so we could scale more rapidly. FPL currently supports Figma’s products and helps teams ship accessible products, faster, at scale.
I drove and shipped several core features across Figma since i've joined, such as split tab windowing, enterprise monetization controls, and publishing flows within Figma Make.
2020+
I helped raise a company called nothing. I helped design + launch their first product, ear(1), and chipped in on operating minutiae (design hires, agency sourcing, fundraising decks) during the earliest days of the partnership with teenage engineering. Carl Pei and I jammed on a grassroots social media strategy that the team carried forward to strengthen their marketing, accelerating their path to becoming a ~$1.3B business. The credit goes to the team for the hard work and follow-through. I was just there to help them see their own potential.
2018-2022
I led Outlook watchOS in 2019, beginning with a redesign of push notifications aimed at making the Outlook experience better on the go. The work evolved into a deeper redesign, and focused on hardware + software interplay. Monthly active users on watchOS grew from ~750K to over 12M, helping Microsoft uncover buried platform treasure in Microsoft 365.
In 2018, I joined Microsoft as a Senior Product Designer on Outlook Mobile. I helped build the shared components and token libraries that became the foundation for Fluent Mobile, Microsoft’s design language across iOS and Android. Along the way, I shipped features and integrations across Outlook and helped expand our work to apps across Microsoft 365 on mobile. I also helped lead the transition from Sketch + Abstract to Figma.
2015-2018
In 2015, I joined Blue Apron as a Product Designer, where my first project was leading the redesign of the iOS app. I partnered across the company to translate the complexity of meal kit deliveries into a mobile management experience that "just worked". I worked with and learned from so many great people like Melody Koh and Fred Kang in the process.
2013-2015
I began my career in 2013 at R/GA on Nike, on their digital brand and digital sports teams under Rasmus Wangelin and Ray Sison. This was my first job -- it immersed me in a high-bar creative environment and shaped my early love for craft, precision, and brand storytelling. I was able to be a part of some special moments like the 2014 World Cup, the Kobe 9, March Madness, Lebron's first championship, and more.
5 shifts redefining design systems in the AI era
A blurb on Figma’s blog on how design systems are becoming frameworks that scale taste and craft.
Redesigning Figma: Executions, Decisions, and Precision
A livestream centered around the design thinking behind UI3, and how we kept quality and speed at the forefront of our work.
Office Hours: How we build and scale our design system
A talk about how Figma built and scaled its design system to support UI3.
The making of the Figma Pattern Library
A inside look at how we scaled our internal design system across Figma's products.
UX四神湯同樂會
A surprise coffee chat with product designers in Taiwan on career advice and craft.
Reintroducing FPL
An internal talk introducing the refreshed Figma Pattern Library and the resources created to support adoption.
New Hire Onboarding for UI3
A walkthrough of the UI3 onboarding experience and how it helps users understand and transition to the redesigned interface.
Designing Dark Mode
A talk from my time at Microsoft exploring the design considerations behind implementing dark mode across product surfaces.
