# Kristy Chen > Product Designer @Shopify Location: Seattle, Washington, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/kristychen Hi, I'm Kristy - a product designer who stays curious and designs with people in mind. Always happy to chat πŸ’¬ ## Work Experience ### Product Designer @ Shopify Jan 2022 – Jan 2025 | Remote Core > Operate > Workflows ### Product Design Intern @ Shopify Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 | Remote Core > Operate > Management ### Product Design Intern @ YIRENTAL Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 | Remote ### UX/UI Design Intern @ Garmin Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | Olathe, Kansas Majority of my work centered around the Garmin Clipboard Coaching app, which was successfully launched on September 2, 2020 - https://buy.garmin.com/en-US/US/p/739176 β€’ Designed and proposed 2 new features to product, business development, and executives teams to initiate discussions of phase two development β€’ Curated survey questions and supported product owners in conducting Customer Acceptance Testing with 4 participants, validating features with the System Usability Scale (SUS) β€’ Worked closely with developers and designers to iterate and implement pre-launch improvements β€’ Created a color style guide based on Garmin’s design system to standardize color usage across the app ### Product Design Intern @ Run The World Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | Mountain View, CA / Remote Run The World is a startup backed by Andreessen Horowitz that aims to build a platform for organizing virtual events. Collaborated with developers to ship the new design of onboarding, sign up and login, streamlining user flow of early-stage product β€’ Explored motion design to bring a more delightful experience to the mobile product β€’ Provided support on the visual design of event marketing templates ### Research Assistant @ University of Washington Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Seattle β€’ Conducted a collaborative literature review with a PhD candidate to analyze the impact of bias on online conversations. β€’ Designed a survey study to learn about user behaviors on online discussion forums. ### Consultant @ Montlake Consulting Group Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | Seattle Montlake Consulting Group is a consultancy, based out of the University of Washington, dedicated to providing consulting services to nonprofits, startups, and Fortune 500 companies. Clients I worked with: Microsoft and Catchy β€’ Evaluated client's company website and utilized its ethos and branding to inform new designs. β€’ Conducted research on financial issues clients faced and the addressable markets. β€’ Collaborated with Junior Partner to synthesize and deliver strategic recommendations to clients. ### UX Design Intern @ Delta Electronics Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Taipei City, Taiwan β€’ Conducted usability tests and redesigned a mobile payment application to improve the payment experience for electric vehicle charging. β€’ Collaborated with engineers and Project Managers in Taipei and Germany to ensure the feasibility of the redesign from various stakeholder perspectives. β€’ Created personas and user journey map for an internal e-learning platform targeting 5000+ employees. β€’ Worked with engineers to design and develop a social bookmark manager that aims to achieve information/knowledge sharing. ## Education ### Master of Science - MS in Information Systems Cornell University Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 ### Master of Science - MS in Applied Information Science Technion - Israel Institute of Technology Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 ### Bachelor of Science (BS) in Human Centered Design and Engineering University of Washington Jan 2014 – Jan 2018 ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/kristy-chen --- Source: https://flows.cv/kristychen JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/kristychen/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-30