# Joyce Cheng > Design Systems @ LinkedIn Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/joycecheng ## Work Experience ### Staff Product Designer - Design Systems @ LinkedIn Jan 2026 – Present ### Staff Product Designer @ Nextdoor Jan 2025 – Jan 2026 - Sole owner of Nextdoor’s cross-platform design system (iOS, Android, Web), supporting both consumer and enterprise products across all product feature teams - Shape cross-platform strategy for the design system to support native platform paradigms, guiding the adoption of Liquid Glass on iOS and Material 3 Expressive on Android - Leverage AI tools to generate code-accurate design system components to enhance design and engineering collaboration - Led a full visual refresh of Nextdoor’s product suite in alignment with a major product strategy shift. Partnered with engineers to ship 60+ updated components across 3 platforms in 9 months, and increased design system component adoption from 68% to 74%. Maintained core company metrics while increasing positive user sentiment about Nextdoor’s design by 30% - Published and maintained Figma library with 700+ components using variables, modes, component properties, and component variants, which supports a team of 20+ designers with 20,000 inserts/week ### Senior Product Designer @ Nextdoor Jan 2021 – Jan 2025 - Launched simplified navigation system on native mobile and desktop increasing business page claims by 70% and group posting by 12%, boosting ad revenue by 10% - Defined and led adoption of design tokens to support dark mode theming across platforms, resolving 500+ dark mode tickets in a quarter - Conducted a comprehensive accessibility audit across Nextdoor, identifying and remediating 100+ WCAG non-compliant issues within one quarter - Built roadmaps by proactively identifying needs from the design organization and end users that contribute towards company objectives - Documented navigation guidelines as a part of the design system website, using prototypes to demonstrate the expected experience ### Product Designer @ Nextdoor Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 - Lead designer for notifications. UI improvements on mobile and desktop led to a 10% increase in DAU and 15% increase in sessions in one quarter - Previously on paid products for small to medium sized businesses. Gather feedback on early product vision for B2B self serve ad platform using high fidelity prototypes - Run feedback sessions with small business owners to determine subscription features and optimal pricing ### UX Designer @ Amazon Web Services (AWS) Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | San Francisco - Lead designer on data layer for AWS’s low code app builder - Redefine data layer to be represented by a database instead of a spreadsheet, leading to 5x improvement in customer time to create the first app - Creator and owner of design system library, work with 6 UI Platform engineers to ship reusable components - Document UX patterns and component usage, raising the consistency and quality of product ### Product Designer II @ Workday Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | San Francisco Bay Area - Lead designer for Workday App Creator - Facilitate design thinking workshops quarterly with product, engineering, and design to understand problem spaces and pinpoint valuable opportunities - Collaborate with developers to deliver quality experiences while working with product and research to design the next iteration - Define unified low code experience across all Workday Cloud Platform products ### Product Designer I @ Workday Jan 2017 – Jan 2019 | San Francisco Bay Area - Construct non technical HR administrator persona through generative research and user interviews - Redesign WYSIWYG page builder for newly defined non technical persona - Introduce and globalize drag and drop patterns for Workday Design System ### Web Design Decal Head Lecturer @ UC Berkeley Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 ### User Experience Intern @ Cisco Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | San Jose, CA ### UI/UX Intern @ Localwise Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | Berkeley, CA ## Education ### Bachelor's degree in Cognitive Science University of California, Berkeley Jan 2013 – Jan 2017 ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/joyceycheng --- Source: https://flows.cv/joycecheng JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/joycecheng/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-30