# Hengyi Ren

> Product Designer x Builder shaping AI-native experiences from 0 to scale | Founding Designer @ Accio, Alibaba Group | MS in HCI/d at IUB

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

Product Designer shaping Human-AI Interaction systems that simplify complexity and empower people to achieve more. | Portfolio: www.hengyiren.com | Contact: hengyiren33@gmail.com

## Work Experience
### UX Designer @ Alibaba Group
Jan 2024 – Present | Sunnyvale, CA
Founding Designer at Accio, AI-native B2B sourcing agent — scaled from 0 to product-market fit, full product investment, and market-leading scale.

Defined human-AI responsibility: AI for cognitive overhead; humans for judgment and commitment.

Designed agentic AI UX — visible reasoning, file system, contextual quoting, collections.

Partnered with ML building product and supplier search with LLM-as-judge ranking, and business research with data viz.

Built design system and AI-assisted design workflow for rapid iteration with cross-functional teams.

### Product Designer @ Alisa by Genova Labs
Jan 2023 – Jan 2023 | San Mateo, CA
Founding Designer at Anothermind.ai, a no-code platform to build personalized AI agents with knowledge base and skills. Selected for Sarah Guo’s Conviction accelerator

Led user research, user testing and facilitated 1-week hackathon with 84 early users to understand how people calibrate trust with AI systems: Findings shaped interaction model - 150% retention improvement

Shaped UX patterns for RAG retrieval, tools and workflows, alongside ML Architect in a 3-person founding team

### UX Design Intern @ 2NDNATURE
Jan 2022 – Jan 2023
- Collaborate with PM and development team, researched and designed MVP of a B2B Information Management SaaS product, improving corporate sustainability towards ESG goals with quantifiable stormwater impact, adopted by early market adopters
- Conducted user research, design, and user testing to enhance 2NFORM's filtering experience for spatial analysis on GIS dashboards across all modules used by governments in 14 states
- Developed 3 key personas, leveraging user research and testing methods to advocate for users, prioritize user needs and drive user-centered design solutions
- Designed a set of solutions for coming soon projects and new product release announcements, collaborating with PMs on the product release roadmap and strategy

### Associate Instructor @ Indiana University Bloomington
Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 | Bloomington, Indiana, United States
- Tought 37 undergraduates HTML, CSS, XD, Python, and DataViz as a primary instructor in a lab two times a week for INFO-I101 Introduction to Informatics
- Instructed students in the design and development of their projects while grading, giving feedback, and demonstrating


## Education
### Master of Science - MS in Human Computer Interaction Design
Indiana University Bloomington

### Bachelor of Architecture - BArch in Architecture
Southwest Jiaotong University


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/hengyiren
- Portfolio: https://www.hengyiren.com/

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Last updated: 2026-04-13