Productdesignerat
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Work
In the last 8 years
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UX Designer
@ Google Fiber
2024 — present
UX Designer
@ YouTube AI Search 20% project
2025 — present
Senior Product Designer
@ FI
2023 — 2024
Product Designer
@ Shopify
(the continuing role after the acquisition through the end)
2022 — 2023
Product Designer
@ Deliverr
(joined and acquired by Shopify within the same year)
2022 — 2023
Senior Product Designer
@ SumUp
2021 — 2022
Senior Product Designer
@ Fivestars
(acquired by SumUp in late 2021)
2018 — 2022
Working with AI
AI isn't a trend I'm chasing. It's just part of how I work now.
Gemini for product brainstorming, research validation, and image generation. ChatGPT for general research. Claude and Claude Code for specialized, more technical work. Figma AI and Figma Make for fast iteration. Currently learning Cursor.
How i think
First drafts are meant to be wrong
I never expect the first version to be the right one. Looking back later is how I know the work actually moved.
Animation isn't decoration
A small interaction or well placed animation can do more than another screen of UI. Motion is part of the design, not something added on top.
Say it in the room
People speak up when they feel safe being themselves. I bring my real self to work so others feel they can too.
Build it, don't debate it
No amount of research tells you if something works until real people use it. I'd rather ship, watch, and adjust.
First drafts are meant to be wrong
Animation isn't decoration
Say it in the room
Build it, don't debate it
I never expect the first version to be the right one. Looking back later is how I know the work actually moved.
A small interaction or well placed animation can do more than another screen of UI. Motion is part of the design, not something added on top.
People speak up when they feel safe being themselves. I bring my real self to work so others feel they can too.
No amount of research tells you if something works until real people use it. I'd rather ship, watch, and adjust.
A bit of my background
Before I was a designer, I was just a kid who couldn't stop making things.
I grew up in Germany speaking German, Cantonese, and Mandarin at home, drawing constantly, and teaching myself Photoshop at fourteen, long before I knew “UX” was a job title. Design found me before I had a name for it.
Photography came next. I picked up a camera at sixteen and spent several years shooting music festivals, including artists like Janet Jackson, ODESZA, The Weeknd, Florence + The Machine, and many more. I still shoot casually today.
In 2016, after hearing that hitchhiking across the US was basically impossible, I quit my job, bought a one-way ticket to Boston, and spent two months finding my way back to LA on close to zero dollars. Most “impossible” turns out to be untested.
These days that same instinct shows up in smaller ways — learning Japanese, getting my scuba certification, picking things up just to prove I can.
It follows me into design too. Give me a real problem and a reason to believe it's solvable, and I'll find a way through it.
Let's build something
I'm currently at Google, but always open to a conversation about the right opportunity. If you're working on something that needs strong product thinking and real visual craft in the same person, I'd love to hear about it.