# Yiwen Mu

> UX lead/manager at Google Commerce

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

## Work Experience
### Staff design manager @ Google
Jan 2021 – Present | Mountain View, California, United States
Build the retail merchant experience for all Google products

### UX design lead/manager @ Google
Jan 2018 – Jan 2021 | Mountain View, California
Designed the best merchant products on Google Maps

### Design Manager @ Samsung Electronics America
Jan 2015 – Jan 2018 | Mountain View, California
Head of design for Samsung Health US. 

Lead a team of interaction designers, visual designers, motion designers and researchers. Responsible for empowering the team to create the best user experience for Samsung health-related products (both B2C and B2B ). Collaborate with with world-class health service providers and partners. Product areas include telehealth service, AI in the medical field, and B2B health platform.

### Staff Interaction Designer @ Samsung Electronics America
Jan 2013 – Jan 2015 | Mountain View, California
Served as a design lead and an individual contributor at Mobile Experience team, Samsung. Created the next generations of UX/UI and digital services for Samsung mobile products. As an individual contributor, worked with engineers to deliver end-to-end design solutions, notably Samsung Milk Music. As the design lead, collaborated closely with multi-disciplinary designers to create innovative, elegant and user-focused works, including Samsung Galaxy S7 Touchwiz.

### Senior Interaction Designer @ Motorola Mobility
Jan 2011 – Jan 2013 | Greater Chicago Area
Worked in the Mobile Companion Product team to design the first smart wearable product - MOTOACTV. Worked closely with the Google X design team on creating Android wearable features, which were built into the 1st generation of Moto 360. Collaborated with industrial designers to re-designed user experience and software interface for other companion products, including Motorola S11 headphones, Motorola Roadster Pro, and Motorola Whisper etc.

### Interaction Design intern @ Motorola
Jan 2010 – Jan 2010 | Greater Chicago Area
Designed high-level UX concepts and accomplished storyboards, wireframes, visuals and mock-ups for future dual-screen mobile phones. Participated in multiple design-thinking workshops regarding the next generation of mobile concepts for Blur (Motorola Android platform).

### Interaction Designer @ Alibaba Cloud Computing Company
Jan 2009 – Jan 2009
As the first designer in Alibaba Cloud, built and led the UX design team. Supported design recruiting events, created the preliminary design language and collaborated with tech leads on future product strategies.

### Industrial & Interaction Design Intern @ Microsoft Research Asia
Jan 2007 – Jan 2009 | Beijing

### Interaction design intern @ Lenovo
Jan 2006 – Jan 2007 | Beijing, China


## Education
### MFA in Design Thinking & Design Management
Herron School of Art + Design

### ME in Industrial Design
Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/yiwen-mu

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Last updated: 2026-04-13