Yang Cheng

Yang Cheng

Yang Cheng

Product Designer at WRITER

Hello! I'm Yang, a software designer based in 📍 NYC. With a background in human-computer interaction, analytics, and academic research, I have spent the last 4 years tackling complex problems and developing creative solutions. I pride myself on end-to-end ownership of products from 💡 discovery, 🎨design to 🤖 code.

LinkedIn Portfolio

2026 — NowWRITERProduct Designer

2026 — Now

New York, NY

2022 — 2026MessariSenior Product Designer

2022 — 2026

New York City Metropolitan Area

2022 — 2022KiaviProduct Designer

2022 — 2022

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Designing and iterating on a data-driven platform for real estate investors

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Leading 15+ user sessions (IDIs, contextual inquiries, and participatory design) to uncover untapped product opportunities

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Taking product end-to-end from creating personas, user flows to usability testing and building high-fi prototypes

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Collaborating with PMs, Designers and Data Scientists at Kiavi over the 8-month project to ideate and implement features

2019 — 2021ReadyAIProgram Manager

2019 — 2021

Greater Pittsburgh Area

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Designed, built and regularly updated company’s 2 websites (see readyai.org)

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Led a 3-person startup to write and deploy a semester-long AI curriculum for a Pittsburgh high school

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Designed and coded programming projects to teach 100+ kids coding skills and AI concepts such as computer vision

2018 — 2019WeSpireMarketing Analyst

2018 — 2019

Greater Boston Area

Education

CMU Human-Computer Interaction Institute

Master of Science - MS

Tufts University

Bachelor of Science (B.S.)