Hello, my name is Kai. > I’m a full-stack product designer native to the East Bay, currently living in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Hey! My name is Kai, and I live in San Francisco. I’m a designer and native of the Bay Area. I work professionally as a Digital Product Designer in Information Technology.
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Sep ‘19 – Oct ’22
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Lead Product Designer, Mobile & Design Systems
Academia, Inc.
Academia.edu
San Francisco, California
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Led the design of Academia’s iOS and Android apps, achieving ratings of 4.8 stars (both), over 2 million installs, and 160K/240K MAUs respectively.
Led design of and managed a comprehensive Design System, unifying mobile and web platforms to foster team collaboration.
Aug ‘16 – Sep ’19
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Product Designer
Academia Inc.
Academia.edu
San Francisco, California
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Led design of Academia’s premium design language, enhancing brand consistency and templating of product pages for subscription conversion flows with peaks as high as 20,000 a month.
Collaborated in the design of the Websites for Academia Premium, facilitating the creation of personalized academic websites.
May ‘15 – Aug ’15
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UX Design Intern
Google Inc.
Gmail.com
Mountain View, California
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Collaborated with the Gmail team to explore bringing the Inbox by Gmail experience to wearable devices.
May ‘14 – Aug ’14
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Design Intern
Gengo Inc.
Gengo.com
San Mateo, California
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Collaborated in designing infographics for marketing campaigns & various visual designs.
Design
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Interaction, Visual, Motion, Prototyping, Figma, Sketch, Webflow, Design Systems
UX, Research, & Psychology
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Human Perception & Heuristics, Interaction Behavior, User Interviews, Synthesis, Usability Testing, AB / Multi-variate Testing
Front-End Technology
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Svelte, HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, Node.js, responsive frameworks
