# Gray Wong > Product @ Palona AI Location: Los Altos, California, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/gray Hi, I’m Gray! I'm a Product Designer & Engineer at Palona AI, where I build intuitive, human-centered AI products that turn complex systems into clear, trustworthy experiences. My background spans computer science, HCI, psychology, and philosophy, which helps me bridge technical depth with an understanding of how people actually think and feel. I’ve led cross-functional teams at Develop for Good and built cohesive design systems that improved collaboration and usability across projects. As a first-generation college graduate, I care deeply about inclusion and mentorship. Whether I’m prototyping in Figma, refining UX flows, or guiding a student through their first design sprint, my goal is the same: create technology that helps people feel capable, connected, and at home in the tools they use. ## Work Experience ### Product Designer and Engineer @ Palona AI Jan 2025 – Present | Mountain View, California, United States ### Teaching Assistant @ Stanford University Department of Computer Science Jan 2024 – Jan 2024 | Stanford, California, United States Teaching Assistant for: - CS 247S: Service Design (Prof. Julie Stanford, January - March 2024), - CS 193C: Client-Side Internet Technologies (Dr. Patrick Young, June - August 2024) - CS 147: Introduction to Human-Computer Interaction Design (Dr. James Landay, present) ### Design Manager @ Develop for Good Jan 2024 – Jan 2024 - Managed a design plan schedule divided into sprints, with priority, timeline, deliverables, and OKRs defined. - Coordinated communications and team syncs between product lead/project manager, client organization, and designers across different timezones. - Mentored team on best design and web practices and held workshops to train team and client. - Created website’s design system and custom components to align with client’s brand image using Figma and Framer. ### Lead User Experience Designer @ NextShark Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 - Collaborated in an Agile environment with software, editorial, C-suite, and social media teams to inform website and app specifics as well as marketing strategy. - Conducted ethnographic interviews during needfinding and user testing phases with cross-functional stakeholders, creating user personas, journey maps, and other artifacts while validating new prototype. - Organized UI in a mobile-first, responsive design perspective shaped by modular design rules, repeatable page components, and templatization. - Pitched NextShark features and prototypes to increase engagement and secured thousands of funding from new company investors from VCs and political backgrounds within the Asian community. ### Digital Presence Lead @ Stanford University Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 Under Stanford Inclusive Design Week: - Coordinated team meetings and bonding exercises to strengthen camaraderie and promote teamwork during brainstorming. - Facilitated logo iteration in design group, incorporating team-wide feedback throughout the process to determine visual language. - Led technical implementation of website coding, ensuring features were accessible to screen readers and people with vision impairment or low vision. ### Undergraduate Researcher & Design Lead @ UCSD Design Lab Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 - Designed and iterated on the low-fidelity and medium-fidelity prototypes for the design gallery, modeling all user interactions within it. - Coordinated and facilitated design team meetings to discuss allocation of work in various project areas and provide mentorship and guidance. - Brainstormed and iterated upon multiple design gallery features, such as filtering, design ratings, and displaying feedback, to best convey research questions surrounding learning design in a principled and foundational format. - Led user testing and feedback sessions with various stakeholders to determine usability and effectiveness of the prototype in addressing research questions and synthesized findings through affinity mapping to reveal areas of confusion with terminology and a lack of guidance on how to use the prototype. - Conducted two rounds of pilot testing for the study design, iterating based on feedback from each round. - Composed a design knowledge test meant to assess a participant’s design knowledge and validated questions through t-test analyses between 5 design experts and 11 design novices recruited through Mechanical Turk. ### Design Lead @ Develop for Good Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 - Assisted in website design in Figma and implementation in Squarespace and Webflow for two partner groups of Develop for Good and leveraged HTML, CSS, and JavaScript knowledge for custom code implementation. - Compiled findings from existing user research and generated actionable areas of improvement based on self-reported areas of friction. - Reorganized information architecture and sitemap of a client website for more intuitive and clean navigation. - Spearheaded interaction and visual design, branding, and layout of a client website through Figma mockups and samples, iterating based on client feedback to align both client’s and other stakeholders’ visions. - Modified existing website designs for responsiveness in mobile and tablet views. - Implemented and stylized CMS autofill system in Webflow to easily create blog posts on client side. - Created writeup reports detailing website usage and instructions for modification of website for client project handoff. ### Design Intern & Project Lead @ Accenture Interactive Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 Truly Reimagined Experience internal campaign: - Designed key visual for upcoming Accenture Malaysia project. - Created company-wide needfinding surveys and screeners yielding 163 responses across 14 different Accenture groups. - Assisted in and analyzed 14 employee follow-up interviews to gain insights for office improvement. myTNB app for Tenaga Nasional Berhad: - Established copywriting style and brand tone of voice to inform future communications to customers and app users. - Composed a user testing script & guidelines and recruited participants for individual customer interviews and 2 different focus group testing sessions. - Synthesized areas of improvement and adjustment from user testing results and compiled findings into a slide deck for presentation to client. - Utilized Sketch, ProtoPie, Invision, and other design prototyping tools to execute revisions and learnings from testing sessions. ### Community Coordinator for New Student Orientation @ Stanford University Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 - Collaborated and coordinated events with New Student Orientation Committee and the Diversity and First-Generation Office. - Managed resources and optimized budget based on past events and completed budget-related paperwork to acquire funds for new events. - Offered guidance and support to incoming freshman. ### Dining Ambassador @ Stanford University Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 - Served as a liaison between students and dining hall faculty. - Assisted in overseeing event logistics and resource allocation. - Led outreach efforts to involve student population during celebratory events. ### Research Assistant @ Stanford University Graduate School of Education Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 - Provided qualitative analysis through tagging and coding journal entries in Dedoose. - Transcribed audio interviews of research participants. ### Student Intern @ Cisco Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 - Designed and developed employee web portal prototype with Node.js, MongoDB, HTML, and CSS. - Learned and applied Unix to navigate Cisco network. - Researched cloud computing with the Cisco Cloud team. ### Project Intern @ Henry Schein Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 - Designed and implemented web portal to showcase existing dental products. - Worked on front-end website development and styling. - Ensured that website is responsive and accessible on all devices and breakpoints. ### Summer Intern @ Kids 4 Coding Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 - Mentored students and assisted them through learning classroom material. - Assisted in day-to-day operations, including recalibrating classroom spaces, keeping inventory, and managing students. - Created a website for Kids 4 Coding as a mock deliverable and capstone project. ## Education ### Master of Science - MS in Computer Science Stanford University ### Bachelor's degree in Symbolic Systems, Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) concentration Stanford University ### High School Diploma The Gwinnett School of Mathematics, Science, and Technology (GSMST) ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/gray-wong - Website: https://graywong.framer.website/ --- Source: https://flows.cv/gray JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/gray/resume.json Last updated: 2026-02-23