AVAILABLE FOR FREELANCE · BASED IN SAN FRANCISCO

Designing clarity from
complexity.

I'm a product designer with 7 years of experience crafting human-centered digital experiences for fintech, healthcare, and consumer products. I bridge strategy and craft to ship work that actually moves the needle.

Alex Chen Illustration
CURRENTLY AT Stripe
7+
YEARS EXPERIENCE
40+
PROJECTS SHIPPED
3
DESIGN AWARDS
DESIGNER WHO CODES

I don't hand off and walk away. For select projects I take designs all the way to production — writing React, shipping to the App Store, and owning the entire product experience end to end.

React TypeScript Tailwind CSS Swift UI Expo

Projects I'm proud of.

01 < > DESIGNED & BUILT Fintech Dashboard wealth management platform
PRODUCT DESIGN · 2024

Fintech Dashboard

Redesigned a wealth management platform for 40k+ users. Reduced task completion time by 34% through progressive disclosure and contextual navigation.

FIGMA USER RESEARCH DESIGN SYSTEM
02 Healthcare Portal patient experience
UX DESIGN · 2023

Healthcare Portal

End-to-end patient experience for a telemedicine platform. Simplified appointment booking into 3 steps, increasing conversion by 52%.

RESEARCH PROTOTYPING ACCESSIBILITY
03 < > DESIGNED & BUILT E-Commerce Mobile native shopping experience
MOBILE DESIGN · 2023

E-Commerce Mobile

Native shopping experience for a fashion brand. Designed personalization features that drove a 28% lift in repeat purchases.

MOBILE INTERACTION DESIGN A/B TESTING
EXPERIENCE

Where I've worked.

Senior Product Designer @ Stripe

2022 — Present

Leading design for the Payments Core team. Shipped the redesigned checkout flow used by 3M+ merchants globally.

Product Designer @ Figma

2020 — 2022

Designed collaborative features and the component library system. Worked cross-functionally with engineering and PM.

UX Designer @ IDEO

2018 — 2020

Human-centered design consulting for Fortune 500 clients across fintech, healthcare, and consumer products.

WHAT I DO

Design & build.

01

UX & Product Design

End-to-end product design from research and wireframes to polished, developer-ready specs and design systems.

02

Design Engineering

I write production code. React, TypeScript, Tailwind. I take my own designs from Figma to deployed product.

03

Design Systems

Scalable component libraries with clear documentation, token architecture, and contribution guidelines teams actually use.

04

Mobile Apps

Native iOS and Android experiences — from interaction design to prototype to shipping on the App Store and Play Store.

CREDENTIALS

Certified & recognized.

VERIFIED
UX DESIGN

Google UX Design Certificate

Google / Coursera 2023
VERIFIED
UX RESEARCH

Nielsen Norman UX Certification

Nielsen Norman Group 2022
VERIFIED
USABILITY

Certified Usability Analyst

Human Factors International 2022
VERIFIED
INTERACTION DESIGN

Interaction Design Foundation

IDF — Full Membership 2021
VERIFIED
ACCESSIBILITY

Accessibility for UX Designers

Deque University 2023
VERIFIED
LEADERSHIP

Design Leadership Program

IDEO U 2021
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I'm open to select freelance projects and full-time opportunities. Let's build something great together.

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