Kuan Chen

Product designer who builds with AI

I design for complex human and organizational problems, from cross-cultural teams to city-scale systems. I use AI to prototype, build small tools, and automate the everyday.

Now

Fresh out of CCA, I’m spending my days exploring what AI can do for people, building small things and seeing what sticks. Open to product design roles.

Selected work

Cross-Cultural Collaboration Rhythms

Designing a collaboration rhythm layer to reduce expectation mismatch in distributed, cross-cultural teams.

Designed and shipped the AI profile and name-card experience, and improved the recruiting flow for both candidates and recruiters.

Homelessness in San Francisco

A data and human-stories exploration of a city-scale social problem.

Experiments

A small control window that cleans up any photo folder in place.

An AI agent that writes my daily report every morning.

Obedient to the Computer

An interactive installation that scores how obediently you pose for a computer, then prints the receipt.

Writing

How AI changed me as a designer, and into more than one