Kuan Chen

Product designer who builds with AI

I design the hard parts of AI products: the uncertainty, the edge cases, and the human review. I build with AI to prototype, automate the flow, and ship small tools, so the distance between an idea and a working thing stays short.

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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

A cross-cultural collaboration thesis, built into Syncraft: a Slack-native clarity layer that nudges vague replies toward what people mean.

Designed the AI profile and the agentic 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