# Ernest Tien > Product Designer at Facebook Location: San Francisco, California, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/ernesttien Hi! I’m Ernest. I am a self-taught designer who crossed disciplines out of necessities and passion. As a product designer at Huawei, my role is to envision what to make and do, why do it and how to innovate contextually, both immediately and over the long term. This role involves the interplay between design and strategy. I am currently based in San Francisco. If you’re in the San Francisco area, I’d love to chat with you over coffee. ## Work Experience ### Product Designer @ Facebook Jan 2019 – Present ### Senior UX Designer @ Huawei Consumer Business Group Jan 2017 – Jan 2019 | San Francisco Bay Area The team is focused on human-centered machine intelligence design. We create principles, guidelines, components, and ‘best-practices’ for EMUI features that involves machine learning. • User Relationship Design: The AI-powered strategy for building smart, adaptive systems that evolve to continuously improve the user experience.  • Anticipatory Design Framework: Developed the guiding framework that helps designers know when and how to apply machine learning to improve user experience. • Intelligent System Components: Created a set of next-generation system components that is designed to be AI-ready. ### Product Designer @ Bowhead Technology Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | Shanghai City, China Gululu is on a mission to help children a develop a habit for hydration. As a product manager, I am responsible for interpreting user insights and designing habitual features. • Habit-forming UX: Analyzed and designed behavior changing features that build habits. • Web Design: Applied user insights to build and enhance our communication of value proposition. Led, strategized, and constructed the web / commerce experience. • Product Design: Was instrumental in the process from initial brainstorming to designing for manufacturability ### Product Designer @ HTC Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 | Taipei City, Taiwan I was a part of a very diverse but collaborative team called Integrated Design. Tackling a wide range of tasks: • Product Strategy: Research, developed, and implemented 1-3 year product strategies within the new products division at HTC. • Culture Design: Applied new ways to facilitate and ingrain these ideas into the culture of the teams building the products. • Human Centered Design: Discovering market insights based on in-depth consumer research • Brand Strategy: Brand positioning and visual guideline • Digital Strategy: Website visual designs ### Mechanical Designer @ HTC Jan 2014 – Jan 2015 • Enhance and validate designs for manufacturability and usability. • Design, prototype, and test new mechanisms based on user study. • Initiated Maker Hackathon for internal design department. ## Education ### Bachelor of Science (BS) in Mechanical Engineering & Industrial Design University of Washington Jan 2009 – Jan 2013 ### Singapore American School Jan 2005 – Jan 2009 ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/ernesttien - Portfolio: http://www.ernesttien.com --- Source: https://flows.cv/ernesttien JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/ernesttien/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-25