# Yina Dong > Product Designer | CA Licensed Architect | Cal Alumni Location: Berkeley, California, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/yina I’m a Product Designer who believes great design goes beyond interfaces — it’s about shaping systems and experiences that make complex technology feel natural and intuitive. With experience designing generative AI products and data-rich B2B platforms, I specialize in: Reframing complex problems and uncovering opportunities through research, systems thinking, and strategic design Transforming emerging technologies like AI into intuitive, human-centered workflows Delivering meaningful impact for both users and businesses through thoughtful, scalable solutions What drives me? The challenge of making the complex feel effortless. Whether designing an AI copilot system that turns multimodal inputs into dynamic task flows, helping secure $1.8M in funding and reach 82% adoption, or bringing a systems-thinking mindset from 10+ years of architecture practice into digital product design, I’m passionate about turning ambiguity into clarity — and ideas that seem impossible into products that work. ## Work Experience ### Associate Architect @ JRDV Urban International Jan 2015 – Jan 2026 • California Registered Architect with 10+ years solving complex real-world user problems across 30+ global retail projects. Conducted stakeholder alignment, defined requirements, and iterated design solutions balancing user experience, business objectives, and technical constraints from concept through delivery. ### Architectural Designer @ JRDV Urban International Jan 2015 – Jan 2025 | Oakland ### Product Designer @ AUTOARK INTELLIGENT TECHNOLOGY (HONG KONG) CO., LIMITED Jan 2023 – Jan 2024 • Led stakeholder interviews and synthesized business requirements to define product vision, roadmap, and UX strategy for an AI content platform; established KPIs contributing to $1.8M MVP funding. Launch generated 12,000+ visits and 863 active users in month one, driving steady growth. • Conducted user interviews, competitive analysis, and UX audits to identify pain points and frame high-impact problem statements. Translated insights into personas, journey maps, and JTBD frameworks to guide prioritization. • Designed an AI co-pilot translating multimodal inputs into goal-driven workflows; used rapid prototyping, usability testing, and A/B testing to refine micro-interactions and complex AI behaviors in collaboration with PM, 2 designers, and 2 engineers. • Built a semantic tagging system leveraging RAG and human-in-the-loop feedback, using data analysis and performance monitoring to improve reliability while maintaining user control. • Developed a modular design system (70+ components) and UI kit, defining typography, color, responsive standards, and WCAG 2.2 accessibility. Delivered UI specs, annotations, and redlines for developer handoff, reducing concept-to-handoff time in Agile sprints. ### Product Designer @ Stealth Startup (AI) Jan 2023 – Jan 2023 • Designed an AI-powered contract processing platform that streamlined review workflows, improving operational efficiency by 85% and achieving 4× ROI. • Led end-to-end product design for Orby 2.0 — synthesized business goals and user research into user journeys, wireframes, and interactive prototypes. • Introduced a gamified onboarding and review experience that reduced the learning curve and increased user engagement. • Built a scalable design system that improved designer–developer collaboration, improved QA support processes, and eliminated UI inconsistencies across the product. ### Graduate Student Researcher @ RAEL SAN FRATELLO ARCHITECTS Jan 2014 – Jan 2015 | Berkeley, California Assist Prof. Ronald Rael with the the first and largest architectural-scale 3D printed cement structure Bloom.Provide research support by testing materials and doing 3D printing. ### Intern @ JRDV Architects Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 | Oakland ### Intern @ CENTRAL SOUTHERN CHINA GEOTECHNICAL DESIGN INSTITUTE Jan 2012 – Jan 2013 | Wuhan, China Work on projects at all phases Model making Construction drawings 3d visualization ## Education ### Master of Architecture in Architecture University of California, Berkeley ### Master of Architecture - MArch in Architecture University of California, Berkeley ### Bachelor of Architecture in Architecture Hunan University ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/yinadong90 - Portfolio: https://yinadongdesign.framer.website/ - Portfolio: https://yinadongdesign.framer.website --- Source: https://flows.cv/yina JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/yina/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-17