Hi, I’m Michelle Chiu


Senior product designer at PayPal, freelance design lead with 7 YoE, and beauty/fashion events creative strategist. Previously, I’ve designed at 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, Peanie, Pistachio, Prism, Rarible, Rubi, Shibuya, Wish, Youvoya

Awards, Recognition, & Other Highlights:
Adobe Design Achievement Awards Recipient [Link]
Bestfolios Editor’s Pick Featured Site
Design Nation Conference Selected Attendee [Link]
EDGE NYFW Content Studio Manager [Link]
Emboldly (Nonprofit) NYC Events Lead [Link]
Facebook GH Scholarship Recipient (1 of 25 worldwide)
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]
Interior New York Fashion Week Intern [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+ views) [Link]
Mejuri Brand Ambassador (5 yrs) [Link]
Mercury Spheres Scholarship Recipient [Link]
Monday Girl Social Club Community Member [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)
Women’s Creatives Dinner Inaugural Guest [Link]

Axiom


Private dashboard and public explorer interface that enables developers to use zero-knowledge proofs to scale smart contract applications. 

The team has raised $20M Series A round led by Paradigm and Standard Crypto and includes a former professor at UChicago Statistics who founded a HFT startup from inception to profitable trading; alums of Applied Intuition, Coinbase, Color, Neon, Google, Perplexity; and winners of international olympiads in computing, math, and physics.
I designed a new interface where users could:
  • Register programs for ZK verification
  • Generate ZK proofs for programs with specified inputs
  • View artifacts produced by programs
  • View data generated by proofs
  • Track performance of programs
  • Publicly publish programs, profiles, and jobs for others to see in a public dashboard

I worked with Axiom’s co-founders and engineers to sketch, wireframe, ideate, refine, finalize, and transfer high-fidelity designs for implementation. 

Design Systems
Interaction Design
Product Design
Web Design
Visual Design