# Yan Yan > Product Design @ Instagram Location: Stanford, California, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/yanyan Yan Yan is a San Francisco based, patent-awarded designer and artist. ## Work Experience ### Senior Product Designer @ Instagram Jan 2025 – Present | San Francisco, California, United States Designing new Instagram mobile app experiences for over two billion monthly users to connect with friends and culture ### Senior Product Designer @ Microsoft Jan 2022 – Jan 2025 | San Francisco Designing memory + AI capabilities to solve real-world problems for consumers, creatives, and business professionals across Windows and Surface products. ### Product Designer @ Webex Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 Responding to the need to enhance wellbeing within remote collaboration during the COVID-19 pandemic, over the course of 2021, Webex undertook a redesign and introduced a suite of AI-powered features known as Collaboration Insights ### Experience Designer @ Apple Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 | Cupertino, California, United States Research and design of new features (Apple Business Chat, App Clips) across Apple Business partners and industry use cases (Retail, Dining, Banking, Airlines, and Healthcare) ### Designer @ Creator Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | San Francisco Bay Area We strive to create the most Human Centered Dining experience. What factors of systemic inequity have caused quality ingredients to be associated with a high, often unattainable, price tag? At Creator we believe high quality, flavorful, healthful, and seasonal food cooked with expert culinary technique should be affordable to everyone. Our burgers were created by talented chefs who then worked with our designers to engineer a cutting edge device that could reproduce their flavorful creations faster and more efficiently. As such, we can offer gourmet food at the lowest possible price in the most accessible way. ### Design and UX Research @ Thistle Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | San Francisco Bay Area Led pilot UX research to uncover strategic insights, with support from product managers and senior designers. Established a cadence for human centered qualitative research as well as product testing. Led design synthesis workshops that made use of the diverse perspectives at the company. Presented findings to and hosted forums for relevant departments, stakeholders, and company leadership. Redesigned flagship product labels, working alongside the operations team, culinary production team, and product team to ensure a clean visual design, increased automation, and a reduction of ink waste by ~30%. Helped launch an impactful brand campaign around a sustainable, local ethos of responsible sourcing dubbed "The Makers" campaign (thistle.co/makers). Furthered Thistle's brand reach through performance marketing campaigns that touched thousands of existing customers and pushed acquisition and retention. Sent critical messages around food safety issues to ensure corporate responsibility. ### Designer @ Italia Innovation Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Verona, Veneto, Italy Applied design sprint methodology to designing a chef engagement app prototype for Pasta Mancini ### Preceptor - Leland Scholars Program @ Stanford University Jan 2015 – Jan 2017 ### Kitchen Manager @ Stanford University Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | 586 Mayfield Ave, Stanford CA Sourcing ingredients for Stanford community co-op kitchen ### Coordinator - Haas Center for Public Service @ Stanford University Jan 2015 – Jan 2017 Designing, organizing, managing and publicizing a Stanford course and Alternative spring break service trip focused around activism in public health and food insecurity ### Research Assistant - Center for Design Research @ Stanford University Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 | Stanford, California, United States Uncovered user needs through qualitative research & data around human stress response to autonomous driving ## Education ### Bachelor of Science - BS in Product Design Stanford University ### Master of Science - MS Candidate in Sustainability Science and Practice Stanford University ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/yansquared - Website: https://www.yanyan.design/ --- Source: https://flows.cv/yanyan JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/yanyan/resume.json Last updated: 2026-02-23