# Alana Wu > Product Designer @Palantir Location: New York, New York, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/alanawu πŸ‘‹πŸΌΒ Hey there! I’m Alana, a product designer fueled by curiosity, a fascination with understanding people, and a love for bringing design to each facet of life. 🧠 I’m currently at Carnegie Mellon University studying Decision Science & Human-Computer Interaction, melding psychological theory with real world practice. 🌈 Out in the wild, you’ll find me dancing, singing my heart out while I bike, and painting anything I can get my hands on (walls, bikes... rocks?) Get to know me at https://alanawu.com ## Work Experience ### Product Designer @ Palantir Technologies Jan 2025 – Present ### Co-President @ CMU User Experience Association Jan 2024 – Present ### VP of Content @ CMU User Experience Association Jan 2023 – Jan 2024 ### Campus Leader, Carnegie Mellon @ Figma Jan 2024 – Jan 2025 ### Product Design Intern @ SeatGeek Jan 2024 – Jan 2024 Lead designer for a new venue map experience enabling fans to plan for their best- night-ever, and venue owners to improve ingress operations and increase in-venue spend; launching with 12 major clients. Worked with data team to design strategy to increase iOS push notifications opt-in rate, critical to drive overall GTV. Built centralized documentation for core flows of the product, now used by teams across the company. ### UX Design Intern @ FYTA Jan 2024 – Jan 2024 ### Product Design Intern @ PLUS - Personalized Learning Squared Jan 2023 – Jan 2024 Designed, tested, and shipped a reflection form feature for tutors, creating a centralized, quantified way to collect critical data for improving the tutoring program. ### Product Design Intern @ WillowTree Jan 2023 – Jan 2023 Collaborated with clients, product, and engineering to launch a new mobile app for the largest healthcare staffing agency in the US. Documented guidelines and revamped design system, enabling smooth handoff to client design team. ### UX Design Intern @ Eachday Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 Designed and shipped onboarding process for ADHD self-management app. ### Research Assistant @ CMU Human-Computer Interaction Institute Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 Designed & conducted a series of community workshops with Pittsburgh residents & transit advocacy groups on the design of sidewalk delivery robots. ### Design Intern @ Pittsburghers for Public Transit Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 Conducted user research, usability testing, interaction flows, wireframe iterations, and prototypes for website redesign. Designed posters, flyers, social media posts, and infographics for campaign and marketing use. ### UX Designer @ 412Connect Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States As sole designer, redesigned and shipped new website, working in tandem with engineering. Created comprehensive marketing materials for launch & 12 community partners. ### Intern @ Bunker Projects Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States Acted as executive assistant to conduct material and content research, aid creative director in studio space and exhibition setup, interview residency artists for arts review publication, and collaborate on website redesign. ### Research Assistant @ University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 Analyzed 40+ city climate action plans to compile a database on greenhouse gas emission methodologies, funding tools, and social and environmental justice implementation. ## Education ### Bachelor's degree in Human Computer Interaction, Decision Science Carnegie Mellon University ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/alana-wu - Portfolio: https://alanawu.com/ --- Source: https://flows.cv/alanawu JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/alanawu/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-29