Hi, I’m Michelle Chiu


Senior product designer at Thrivent, freelance design lead with 8 YoE, and events creative strategist! Previously, I’ve designed at PayPal, Coinbase, Meta Creative X, MongoDB, and partnered with brands such as Four Seasons, Marie Claire, and Mejuri. My work has reached ~3B+ users globally and contributed to ~$50M+ in funding and revenue.

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Clients/Experience: Authoritative, Alta, ARI, Axiom, Beam, BuzzFeed, Cherry Pick, Coinbase, Daimo, DoorDash, Easy Labs, Four Seasons, Frog Design, Gensmo, Instagram, Kleiner Perkins, Kodely, Marie Claire, Marie Claire Arabia, Megapot, Mejuri, Meta Creative X, MongoDB, PayPal, Peanie, Pistachio, Prism, Rarible, Rubi, Shibuya, Wish, Youvoya

Awards, Recognition, & Other Highlights:
Adobe Design Achievement Awards Recipient [Link]
Bestfolios Editor’s Pick Featured Site
Brown University PM Org Selected Guest Speaker
Calyptus Newsletter Feature (15K+ reads) [Link]
Cartier x RedBoxMe Invited Member [Link]
Design Nation Conference Selected Attendee [Link]
EDGE NYFW Content Studio Manager [Link]
Emboldly (Nonprofit) Former NYC Events Lead [Link]
Facebook GH Scholarship Recipient (1 of 25 worldwide)
Future of NYC Design Selected Speaker [Link]
Four Seasons Styling Assistant [Link]
Girls Into VC Fellow & Former Newsletter Editor [Link]
Hexagon UX Mentorship Program Selected Participant
IDEO CoLab Makeathon Selected Participant [Link]
Kleiner Perkins Fellows Program Alumni Interviewer (2x)
Kleiner Perkins Engineering Fellow [Link]
Marie Claire Arabia Photography Assistant [Link]
Medium Top Writer in Design (225K+ reads) [Link]
Mejuri Brand Ambassador (5 yrs) [Link]
Mercury Spheres Scholarship Recipient [Link]
Monday Girl Social Club Community Member [Link]
New York Fashion Week x Interior Intern [Link]
Rarible Ex-Editorial Writer (front-page feature [Link]
Slow Ventures Design & AI Dinner Invited Guest [Link]
TechCrunch Disrupt Scholarship Attendee [Link]
The Council Angel Investing Community Member [Link]
Unsplash Featured Photographer (5.8M+ views)
Wall of Portfolios Editor’s Pick Featured Website [Link]
Women’s Creatives Dinner Inaugural Guest [Link]

Alta f.k.a. Flagship (NDA)


AI-powered styling and shopping app with $11M+ in seed funding led by Menlo Ventures, Aglae Ventures (Arnault family who runs LVMH), Benchstrength Ventures, Phenomenal Ventures (VC firm founded by Kamala Harris’ niece), etc. 

Alta has been featured on platforms such as Business Insider, CFDA, ELLE Magazine, Forbes, NBC News, US Weekly, WWD, and Wall Street Journal.

I helped Alta (fka Flagship) develop new ideas for the app. This project was completed in partnership with Jenny Wang (co-founder of Alta) through review sessions and iterative design cycles.

My work comprised of a heuristic analysis of the existing app designs, a detailed competitive audit of leading apps in the fashion and e-commerce spaces, and concept ideation across the homepage, search, outfit generation, look details, loading states, and fashion curations across application’s mobile and web platforms.

AI Tools
Communication Design
Copywriting
Deck Design
Interaction Design
Motion Design
Storytelling
Visual Design