# Ruofan Zhang

> Product Design Manager at Roblox

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

I am passionate about design and technology. I believe technology could create a new world to us, and designers are bridges in between. I create design that is problem-solving, easy-to-use, and elegantly simple.

## Work Experience
### Product Design Manager @ Roblox
Jan 2023 – Present | San Mateo, California, United States

### Principal Product Designer @ Roblox
Jan 2021 – Jan 2023

### Senior UX Designer @ Roblox
Jan 2020 – Jan 2021
• Design for complex developer tools
• Solve complicated UX problems from end to end 
• Understand user journey, mental models and fundamental motivations and needs
• Driving UX framework/design systems of Roblox Studio (desktop application)
• Focused areas: Design systems, IDE, UGC content management, etc.

• Advocate for user-centric design process among stakeholders
• Mentor junior designers

### UX Designer @ Roblox
Jan 2017 – Jan 2020 | San Francisco Bay Area
• Working on Developer Products: UGC creation tools and management features for games and assets.
• Designing product definitions, workflows, low-fi and hi-fi prototypes, icons; handing off design specs and assets; conducting design QA
• Driving UX framework/design systems of Roblox Studio (desktop application)
• Features: Marketplace, Terrain, Game Settings, Permissions, Game and Assets Publish/Edit/Manage, Output Window, Developer Console, etc
• Worked on international growth: early concept design (responsive website)
• Worked on search and discovery 
• Improved communication and relationship between design and stakeholders (product team and engineering team)
• Collaborated with UX Researcher to conduct user studies: study panel surveys, user interviews, mental models, usability tests
• Mentored design interns

### UX Design Intern @ QuikOrder®
Jan 2016 – Jan 2016
• Developed low-fiand hi-fi mockups, design specs and interactive prototype for new POS system
• Conducted comparative analysis and usability testing of 15 online ordering systems
• Led usability testing on various stages of both design and research
• Identified usability issues in current mobile and web interfaces of famous chained restaurants


## Education
### Master’s Degree in Human Computer Interaction
University of Michigan
Jan 2015 – Jan 2017

### Master's degree in Mechanical Engineering
Tsinghua University
Jan 2012 – Jan 2015

### Summer Studies in Graphic Design
Rhode Island School of Design
Jan 2014 – Jan 2014

### Visiting student in Microelectronics
The University of Tokyo
Jan 2013 – Jan 2013

### Bachelor's Degree in Measurement, Control Technology and Instruments
Tsinghua University
Jan 2008 – Jan 2012


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/ruofan-zhang

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Last updated: 2026-03-25