# Denise Yang

> GenAI Product Designer@ DeepMind · Product Builder · Registered Landscape Architect in CA

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

Previously a Senior Landscape Architect with multiple high-profile and award-winning projects built all over the world. Denise loves overcoming complex challenges creatively and acquiring new skills regularly.

• Solid design experience from research, idealization, and coordination with multi-disciplinary teams.
• A self-starter who actively seeks ways to solve complex problems. Already a design lead and 
   project manager in the best design company. 
• Loving making things, not just beautiful but with strong design intention. Understanding the composition, 
   layout, color, fonts, material, and tectonics in a two-dimensional and three-dimensional way.
• Excellent sense of scale and space after working on the construction project for years.

Denise loves food, history, psychology, indigo dyeing, and Harry Potter.

Keywords: listener, dreamer, team player, lifelong learner

## Work Experience
### Senior UX Designer @ Google DeepMind
Jan 2025 – Present | Mountain View, California, United States
Helping developers and AI enthusiasts build with AI at Google DeepMind.

### Co-founder of Google Product Studio | Lead Product Designer @ Google
Jan 2024 – Present | Mountain View, California, United States
genAI tools for merchants: text-to-image, text-to-video, text-to-text

### Interaction Designer | co-founder of Google Product Studio @ Google
Jan 2022 – Jan 2024 | Mountain View, California, United States
Initiated and co-found Google Product Studio

### Senior User Experience Designer @ eBay
Jan 2022 – Jan 2022
- eBay Spendable Funds
- eBay Payment Education
- Bundle offer for buyers and sellers

### User Experience Designer @ eBay
Jan 2019 – Jan 2022
eBay Managed Payment
- eBay Wallet
- Seller Hub Payment (Web dashboard )
- Seller Reports
- Seller 'Send invoice' across mobile platforms(iOS, Android native and mobile web)
- Buyer 'Request total' across mobile platforms(iOS, Android native and mobile web)

### Freelance UX/UI Designer @ YL Design
Jan 2013 – Jan 2020 | San Francisco Bay Area
- UX/UI Designer for BlueWander Luxury Travel online platform
- Landscape Architect for residential house renovation/Boutique Hotel
- International/national design competitions & exhibitions
- Wall motif and signage design for Lite Bookstore, Wuhan, China

Selected Awards and Exhibition:
• Symbiosis, Post-Earthquake Village Rebuilt, Ya An, Sichuan, China
   American Institute of Architects, 2016 Emerging Professional Exhibit 
• Water Symphony, Lake Nam Van in Macau Master Plan Design Competition
• 3rd Place, by Architects Association of Macau 2015 Yangzhou Mangdao River Master Plan 
   Competition, Excellence Award 2016 
• Water Path, Berkeley College of Environmental Design, Landscape Architecture Department 
   selected student work 2009-201

### UX Designer/Researcher @ Alibaba Group
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | San Mateo
• Qualitative UX research: B2B e-commerce about US small business owners.  
• Enhance the buyers' experience on the world's largest B2B platform to sourcing products overseas

### Registered Landscape Architect in California @ AECOM
Jan 2011 – Jan 2018 | USA
Design Lead and deputy of project manager on various projects globally from concept design to construction administration design stage. 

• Award of Merit, North American Society of Landscape Architects, 2019
  - One Shenzhen Bay, 2013 - 2018

• LEED Platinum, 2nd globally

• Award of Merit, Engineering News Record’s 2018 Best Projects Award
  - Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital at Stanford

• ENR Global Best Project Award 2014
 - Long Beach Court House

 Design Lead
• SFPUC Chinatown Green Alley

 Deputy of project manager for projects in USA, China, South America, and Southeast Asia
• Crane Cove Park, San Francisco, CA
• Beijing Jinhang Mixed-use, Beijing, China
• Ningbo New-town Mixed-use, Ningbo, China
• Thousand Island Pearl Plaza, Zhejiang, China

### UX/UI Student @ UXOFFER: UX Designer Mastery Program
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | online
Bulletpoint App Redesign | A mobile app sharing stories, ideas and collaborating based on to-do-lists. July 2017 - Aug. 2018
• Lead the team to conduct interviews and user research to discover
   pain points and frame problem
• Set up design goals and determine the new features
• Develop and test wireframes with the paper prototype.
• Conduct Heuristic evaluation
• Develop high-fidelity user interfaces
• Create Prototyping
• Held weekly meetings with the Director of UX at Bulletpoints

AirBrush Usability Test I The smartphone photo-editing app with 3 million users in China. Conduct a 
usability test for exploring its global market in the United States. July 2017
• AirBrush UX group iterated the relevant Interface design and optimized its user flow. 
• Write scripts of the guerrilla interview
• Lead the team to conduct the guerrilla interview and recording
• Facilitate the group to analyze the feedbacks and responses collected during the interview
• Compile the usability report with three significant problems

Venmo Group Pay Feature | Redesign the app to make and share payments as a group. June 2017
• Conduct interview and do user research to find the potential user’s needs of the group pay feature 
   in Venmo.
• Develop sitemap
• Develop and test wireframes
• Create the high-fidelity interface for the Group Pay feature 
• Create Prototypes


## Education
### Master of Landscape Architecture (M.L.A) in Landscape Architecture
University of California, Berkeley


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/dyangux

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Last updated: 2026-04-13