# Yona C.

> Design

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

Senior designer working in consumer electronics and AI platform industries. Has expertise in designing and shipping various multimodal products from wearable to far-field, conversational AI agent experiences, and end-to-end product design.

## Work Experience
### Product Designer @ Meta
Jan 2023 – Jan 2025 | San Francisco Bay Area
Reality Labs / AI wearable design team

Contributed to launching Ray-Ban Meta glasses (2023) and Meta AI app (2025)

1) Led product design for communication feature of Ray-Ban Meta glasses
2) Designed user experiences of user insights programs (Product support, Early access program) for AI and wearable devices including Meta Neural Band and Oakley Vanguard glasses.

### Senior User Experience Designer @ Amazon
Jan 2019 – Jan 2023 | San Francisco Bay Area
Projects:
1) Alexa for Computing
2) Multi-Agent Experience (Voice Interoperability Initiative and Alexa Custom Assistant)

Led end-to-end product design from defining product vision and North Star experience to shipping 20+ features on the Alexa for PC app to global customers.

Delivered customer-centered design solutions by conducting user research and workshops, creating a design system, and implementing designs with low-high fidelity mockups.

Developing mechanisms to collaborate with cross-functional teams and partners,
managing design requirements, priorities, and roadmaps and hiring designers to grow the team.

The app rating raised from 2.3 to 4.1 stars.

Overseeing and designing across Alexa built-in products (TV, PC, tablet, watch, speakers, etc)

### Senior AI Experience Designer @ Viv Labs
Jan 2017 – Jan 2019 | San Francisco Bay Area
(Founded by Siri's creators and acquired by Samsung)

Creating Bixby core experience and principles across Samsung devices : mobile, TV, watch, home appliance, and speakers.

Publishing a conversational design system and guidelines as scalable components to enable the hero use cases within the AI platform constraints, for Samsung developers and the public.

Designing interaction framework and low to high fidelity mockups to ship a product to the end users.

### Lead Designer @ GSL Labs
Jan 2015 – Jan 2017 | San Francisco Bay Area
Collaborating with IDEO, designing at the early concept phase for new business for clients: fashion rebranding, online shopping business, travel, city renovation, and BI / CI design

Facilitating the design thinking workshops

Helping client company to innovate their work culture and processes

### UX UI Designer @ Sony
Jan 2010 – Jan 2015 | Within 23 wards, Tokyo, Japan
Designing and shipping Sony’s main product categories to a global audience. VAIO laptop PC, Walkman series, mobile companion apps, Bravia TV, Sony Blu-ray players, Camera apps, Life Space UX, MESH project and Sony smart glasses.

Working closely with PMs and engineers, creating product concepts and use cases and conducting user research in the earlier stage of product development and in R&D projects.

Collaborating with cross functional global teams and partners in USA, UK, Germany, China, and India to deliver quality products.

Directing the UX/UI design to counterpart design teams and hiring designers.

Exhibiting responsible projects at global showcase events for Sony such as CES, MWC, and IFA.

Selected employees for Sony University Leadership Program.

### Industrial Designer @ Samsung Electronics
Jan 2005 – Jan 2007 | Seoul, Korea
Various collaboration projects with Samsung mobile and home electronics design teams.


## Education
### Course: Artful Design in Design and Applied Arts
Stanford Continuing Studies

### Master of Engineering - MEng in Design management
千葉大学 Chiba University

### Bachelor of Arts - BA in Visual Design
Korea National University of Arts

### Bachelor of Arts - BA in Film TV & Multimedia
Korea National University of Arts

### Fine and Studio Arts
Korea National University of Arts


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

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Last updated: 2026-04-13