# Annie Chen > Designing something new :D Location: New York, New York, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/anniechen2 ✉️ My Email: annie.design21@gmail.com ## Work Experience ### Product Designer @ Scale AI Jan 2023 – Present ### Product Designer @ Scout AI Jan 2023 – Jan 2023 ### Product Designer @ Unknown Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 Help startups with UX research and design to validate ideas ### UX Designer (Mdes Capstone) @ CNN Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 - Designed & created a new tab on CNN’s mobile app to improve consumer trust. Partnered with CNN Strategy team - Created an engaging and interactive experience for the user to learn about controversial topics. Drove the process end-to-end, starting from primary research and journey mapping to feature prioritization, prototyping, and testing. Received strongly positive feedback from 4+ CNN internal teams - Built a new user archetype by conducting 12+ semi-structured user interviews. The archetype is adopted as a core target user group in CNN’s design strategy ### Program Manager & Curatorial Assistant @ Center on Contemporary Art (CoCA) Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | Seattle, Washington, United States - Designed the Portfolio Review Program from inception to implementation and drafted the program roadmap to get internal and external stakeholders onboard - Expanded the reach of the program to 185% more artists in U.S. & Canada within months through community engagement and outreach ### UX Designer @ HiveTec Corporation Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 - Led the design of an interactive data visualization that displays the distribution of temperature within a beehive. Drove 4+ rounds of sketching, wireframing, and hi-fi prototype iterations; shipped the end-to-end MVP with the developer team within 3 months - Pitched on how to condense 24 raw sensor data into intuitive, user-friendly visualizations to the CEO, developers, and designers across 2 functional teams, who adopted the design into the app - Evolved the design style guide with a color-blind friendly color palette to promote UI accessibility at scale ### UX Designer @ Ponycody Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 - Collaborated with the in-house designer to conduct heuristic analysis, 15+ usability tests and generated a report that summarized 35+ insights - Revamped the interface and designed 3 primary workflows for the classroom management tool (including class, student, and homework creation) with 3 rounds of user testings, wireframing and info architecture iterations to drive quicker content digestion ### Curatorial Intern @ Jacob Lawrence Gallery Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 ## Education ### Master's degree in Interaction Design California College of the Arts Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 ### Bachelor's degree in Art History, Criticism and Conservation University of Washington Jan 2016 – Jan 2020 ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/anniiechen - Portfolio: https://anniec.design --- Source: https://flows.cv/anniechen2 JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/anniechen2/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-30