# Christie Tang > Senior Product Designer at Meta & Jury at Awwwards Location: San Francisco, California, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/christietang Portfolio: www.christietang.com --- With over 10 years of experience, my expertise is designing high-fidelity, user-intuitive web responsive and mobile experiences for consumer facing products, and I have a personal interest in gaming, messaging, and trust and safety, and digital forensics. My strengths are working with exceptional speed against enigmatic ambiguity, high craft in visual designs, scrappy "figure it out" mentality, and the ability to learn anything quickly. If you want to reach out, start off with "yo" or note one of the many easter eggs in my site so I know you're paying attention. --- I design in Figma and build in code. Claude, Cursor, Xcode, VS Code, Vercel and Whisper Flow are my weapons — I ship production-ready prototypes so fast that the vision sells itself, without waiting on anyone. --- On the side, I write articles to help junior designers learn about visual design, UI/UX trends, and best practices, and for a while I was listed as Medium's top 5 design writers. Some of my top articles have 500k+ views and my articles have been featured on OneZero and UX Collective. Medium: www.christiet.medium.com --- Awards: Indigo Design Award - Gold in Interactive Design Category (2021) Indigo Design ward - Silver in UX, Interface & Navigation Category (2021) Indigo Design Award - Silver in Website Design (2021) Opetron - Site of the day (2020) Orpetron - Web Design Appreciation (2020) Mindsparkle - Mindsparkle Mag (2020) Bestfolio - Editor's pick (2020) Awwwards - Honorable mention (2020) Medium - Top writer in design (2019) The Designership design competition - First place (2017) Sketch Together Design Competition - Second place (2017) ## Work Experience ### Senior Product Designer @ Meta Jan 2022 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area At Meta I've collaborated on several cross-app partnerships. I've worked on Ads Responsibility & Privacy, Facebook Gaming, Gaming in Messenger, Gaming x Metaverse / Horizon, Locals, and Marketplace Jobs. - I designed the end to end experience of playing games with your friends within Messenger, and launched the easter egg feature "Emoji Pong" in Messenger along with a unique post-gameplay sharing experience. - Co-lead design and launched Locals 0-1 in two months, supporting critical MVP features and prototyping for public Mark Zuckerberg announcements. ### Product Designer @ Meta Jan 2020 – Jan 2022 | Menlo Park, California, United States ### Jury Member @ Awwwards Jan 2020 – Present Awwwards Jury is an expert panel of internationally trusted industry leaders, who use their expertise and experience to score sites, as well as forming a valued part of our community by some of the most important designers, bloggers and agencies in the world. Jury members evaluate the talent and effort, and give awards to the best designers and developers on the web, as well as promoting fresh new design trends from all over the world. ### Senior Product/UX Designer @ TrueCar, Inc. Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | Santa Monica • Designed and owned TrueCar’s most consumer-facing products such as Trade, New Car, and Used Car Marketplace experiences for web and mobile • Created a design system and cross communicated between UX and development to implement and maintain our library of React components • Worked with cross functional teams to execute impactful product and user experiences to deliver high fidelity end-to-end prototypes and user flows • Used data from user research and A/B testing to inform design decisions • Collaborated with the lead systems architecture to build a grid system that worked, and defined a handoff process from design to development • Lead workshops to level up our designers and teach them about grids, systems, and design best practices • Worked with product managers, business stakeholders and engineering to understand business requirements and technical limitations ### UX Designer @ TrueCar, Inc. Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | Santa Monica ### Founder @ Tangy Design Jan 2016 – Jan 2019 | Santa Monica, California Tangy Design is a sole proprietor business for hand-painted watercolor goods. I had been curious about the path of an entrepreneur, so I embarked on a journey to start my own small business as a side project. Getting a business license, filing a DBA, searching for vendors, researching shipping methods, doing market research, and filing taxes were some of the few things I conquered. The merchandise includes but is not limited to cell phone cases, accessories, and prints. Goods were sold mainly online but also at pop up shops at various artisan markets around Los Angeles. ### UI/UX Designer @ Optimity Advisors Jan 2016 – Jan 2018 | Greater Los Angeles Area • Agency experience juggling multiple client-facing projects with leading media and entertainment, consumer brands, and financial companies in a fast-paced environment • Solved complex UI/UX and visual problems for user flows, web responsive designs, and Android and iOS mobile user experiences • Strong communication and presentation skills to articulate concepts to multiple stakeholders and executive leadership • Audited and refined UI to match ADA web compliance standards • Ensured UX design deliverables were client-ready and adhered to high-quality standards • Created and implemented new styles, interactions, animations, and details to help deliver premium experiences. • Translated wireframes and experiences into highly-polished end-to-end visual composites with attention to interaction design that follow style and brand guidelines ### Visual Designer @ Collegiate StarLeague Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | Santa Monica, CA • Designed UI mocks and overlay components • Worked with design leadership to inform and improve design processes • Created reusable design patterns for customer-facing branding assets • Translated wireframes and experiences into highly-polished visual composites with attention to visual hierarchy that follow style and brand guidelines • Shaped and improve the user experience using imagery, photography, typography, space, layouts, and color for the optimal aesthetic appeal ### Visual Designer & Program Manager @ Team Elemental Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | Greater Los Angeles Area • Visual voice of the company and made design decisions that perpetuated the direction of the brand in the eSports industry • Wore multiple hats to juggle complex problems and meet deadlines with strong organizational, time management and prioritizing skills ### Research Assistant @ Active Perception Lab at Boston University Jan 2014 – Jan 2016 Published in PNAS (Peer reviewed journal): Task-driven visual exploration at the foveal scale (Mar 2019.) • Directed a study focusing on microsaccades and fine visual movement, showing data that suggests microsaccades behave similarly to saccades • Parsed data from DPI eye tracking device and used MatLab to filter out noise such as blinks and no-tracks to allow for further analyses • Visualized results from ANOVAs and t-tests that analyzed differences in drift diffusion, microsaccadic rates, heat maps, time spent, and visual patterns • Received an Outstanding Student Award in Summer Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP) for evaluating microsaccades between gamers and non gamers ### Graphic Design Intern @ SPARKS Companies, Inc. Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 | Shanghai City, China • Experience working for high end luxury cosmetic beauty brands, and created graphic design assets alongside the senior graphic designer • Self-starter with a proactive approach to work and the ability to work independently, and incorporate feedback from stakeholders ### Research Assistant @ Social Learning Lab at Boston University Jan 2012 – Jan 2013 | Boston University Acknowledged in publication: Corriveau, K. H., Einav, S., Robinson, E. J., & Harris, P. L. (2014). To the letter: Early readers trust printbased over oral instructions to guide their actions. • Conducted social and cognitive experiments with children at elementary schools and the Living Laboratory in the Museum of Science in Boston • Recorded and analyzed stimuli response during experiments • Followed carefully crafted scripts to ensure experiment consistency • Recruited participants for the study ## Education ### Bachelor’s Degree in Psychology & Graphic Design Boston University ### Graphic Design Venice, Italy Visual Arts Study Abroad Program ### High School Shanghai American School - Puxi ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/christie-tang - Portfolio: http://www.christietang.com --- Source: https://flows.cv/christietang JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/christietang/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-13