# Yolanda (Jinyi) Yu > Product Designer Profile: https://flows.cv/yolanda πŸ”₯ I am a UX designer based in San Francisco Bay Area. I am super passionate to creatively solve the real-life problems with technology, building a better life experience for humans. Proficient in agile, 0-1 launch, research industry. 🎨 With 3 years' experience as a #UX/#ARVR/#AI designer, creating immersive user experience by cooperating with vision, audio, touch, and other potential senses. 🎯 I've been building new products and features that help people understand "why" and "how" things, seek opportunities from user insights and focus on data-driven design. Having main responsibility to create innovative, strategically drive business and product goals. ## Work Experience ### Product Designer @ TikTok Jan 2025 – Invalid Date | San Jose, United States Global Community Product - Creation ### Founding Product Designer @ Playhouse AI Jan 2023 – Jan 2025 | San Francisco Bay Area, United States Launched Playhouse from 0β†’3β†’an AI-powered social app that acts as your personal twin, learning your preferences to recommend real-world rapid recommendations, from cafes to spontaneous nights out, growing its 100k+ users with 50% 30-day retention. ### UX Designer @ Defined Labs Jan 2024 – Jan 2024 | Remote Designed a Defi ecosystem to improve crypto trading experience and transparency. ### Product Designer @ Flash Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 | Chicago, Illinois, United States Delivered an end-to-end indoor AR navigation app solution to help users find their car in the complex parking structure without internet. ### Product Designer @ Flash Parking Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 | United States Streamlined EV charging activation experience in ParkWhiz app. Designed dynamic pricing format and service scheduling feature, conducted A/B testing for prototypes. ### UX/UX Designer @ Niantic Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 | Boston, Massachusetts, United States Launched 6 Brain-Computer Interface (BCI) games within the YiHobo App for children aged 6 to 12 to train eye-chase their focus. Conceptualized and prototyped the gameplay system, user interaction, storylines, characters, and environment. ### Solution Engineer Intern @ ε–œι©¬ζ‹‰ Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | Shenzhen, Guangdong, China ### Research Assistant @ UCI Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | Irvine, California, United States Individual Study of Global Trade, advised by Professor Amihai Glazer. Case study of TAXI Trade Adjustment and Compensation and Subsidy Measurements. ## Education ### Master of Science University of Michigan Jan 2021 – Jan 2023 ### Bachelor of Science UC Irvine Jan 2017 – Jan 2021 ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jinyi-yu/ - Email: mailto:yolanda@placeholder.flows.cv --- Source: https://flows.cv/yolanda JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/yolanda/resume.json Last updated: 2026-02-04