# Alvin Shiu

> Senior Product Designer

Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/alvinshiu

Hi, I’m Alvin! I’m a creator and lover of beautiful, functional things. Over the years I’ve designed buildings, stages, sets, furniture and made a bunch of art. I got my degree in architecture and realized that I wanted to practice in an industry where I get shorter feedback loops so I could become a better designer. Since then I’ve been designing GUIs for the last 9 years. I have a proven track record of designing SASS products around big data and complex workflows from the ground up without prior industry knowledge. I love interacting with executives, stakeholders and customers to outline business goals and collaborating with engineers to build responsive, stable apps with robust design systems.

As a UX/UI Design Consultant, I provide high-quality design services to various clients and projects, ranging from web applications to mobile apps. I have over eight years of experience in designing and developing user-friendly, aesthetically pleasing, and functional interfaces, using tools such as Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, and various JS frameworks.

## Work Experience
### User Experience Designer @ TCWGlobal
Jan 2025 – Present
Working for NVIDIA as a client designing data center management SAAS product

### Principal Product Designer @ Kilo
Jan 2022 – Jan 2025 | San Francisco Bay Area
- working with Head of Product and Sales to quickly develop mocks for implementation
- figuring out architecture and data models with head of engineering
- producing artifacts, mocks and specs for engineers to produce

### Principal Designer @ Nebulon
Jan 2019 – Jan 2022
- designed app with complex workflows from the ground up without prior industry knowledge
- worked closely with C-level execs & industry pros to develop user needs & translate into a GUI
- app is modular by design using standardized components removes need for style guide (DRY)
- stylistic changes propagate through the entire app with the change of a few variables
- created custom font for product that encompasses custom icons used throughout the app

### Senior Frontend Design Engineer @ Arcadia Data
Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | San Francisco Bay Area
DESIGN
- re-examine and optimize user workflows
- develop new features using Agile methodologies
- reducing visual cluster and improving color contrast
- improving information consumability with visual hierarchies (IA)
- enforcing consistent input controls and navigational components 
- providing trigger feedback loop and identifying pattern interactions
- research existing interaction paradigms and design with affordance
- collaborate with documentation dept. for microcopy & feature releases coordination
- prototype using hand sketches, XD, Photoshop, Sketch and code

ENGINEERING
- introduced SCSS to Arcadia & refactor CSS into reusable components
- written proficient production HTML & SCSS and resolved Jira bug fixes
- work with JS and libraries such as JQuery, Bootstrap, DataTables, D3, Mapbox etc.
- responsive design and code using techniques such as flexbox

### Founding Designer @ Qadium, Inc.
Jan 2016 – Jan 2018 | San Francisco Bay Area
- primary role as lead UI/UX designer & front end-engineering for our enterprise software
- work closely with sales & data-scientists to extract needs in the form of user stories
- develop hi-fidelity mocks and run through UX cycle to iterate and refine design
- translate mocks into preliminary code specializing in SASS, SVG, animations and D3
- act as the QA for all CSS related items as well as visual consistency throughout the company
- secondary role as a key member of the marketing team at Qadium
- created new logos, marketing material, templates, office re-remodel & swag
- designed and built the corporate site

### Project Designer @ WSP Flack + Kurtz
Jan 2012 – Jan 2014
- client facing role as a lead with a supporting team to develop proposals
  - worked closely with the architects & consultants to come up with lighting strategies & concepts
  - carried projects through all phases from concept to construction administration
  - created presentation content including 3D models, photoshop renderings & technical simulations
  - excellent verbal & visual communication (via sketches etc.)

### Project Designer @ Leigh & Orange Ltd
Jan 2011 – Jan 2012
- worked directly under the creative director of a company of ~ 300 employees
  - hand picked creative team of three to spearhead competition projects in Asia
  - worked with latest tech such as 3D printers & managed model building consultants
  - created brands around each project with a fast pace turnaround environment
  - design scope ranged from overall concept, to spatial planning, to facade & construction details

### Graduate Architect @ Palmer & Turner Consultants
Jan 2010 – Jan 2011
- part of the international team that took on the most prestigious projects & competitions
  - focus on interiors & intricate modular exterior cladding systems
  - designed custom furniture & architectural feature walls

### Project Designer @ Delta Lighting
Jan 2008 – Jan 2009 | Dubai
- prepared & developed proposals for all stages of design
  - involved with industrial design custom work
  - responsible for detailed drawings, prepared cuts & specs


## Education
### Barch in Architecture
SCI-Arc

### Full Stack Web Development
Dev Bootcamp

### Art & Architecture
Bezalel Academy of Art and Design

### Psycology & Anthropology
University of Cambridge

### Computer Science & Economics
University of Toronto - University of St. Michael's College


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/avinoz
- Portfolio: http://avinoz.github.io/

---
Source: https://flows.cv/alvinshiu
JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/alvinshiu/resume.json
Last updated: 2026-04-13