Hi, I’m Michelle Chiu


Senior product designer at PayPal & freelance design leader with 7 years of experience. Previously, I’ve designed at Coinbase, Meta Creative X, MongoDB, and for startups such as Axiom, BuzzFeed, Daimo, Gensmo, etc. My work has impacted ~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, Kodely, Marie Claire Arabia, Megapot, Mejuri, Meta Creative X, MongoDB, Peanie, Pistachio, Prism, Rarible, Rubi, Shibuya, Wish

Awards & Recognition:
Adobe Design Achievement Awards Recipient [Link]
Bestfolios Editor’s Pick Featured Site
Design Nation Conference Selected Attendee [Link]
Facebook GH Scholarship Recipient (1 of 25 worldwide)
Hexagon UX Mentorship Program Selected Participant
IDEO CoLab Makeathon Selected Participant [Link]
Kleiner Perkins Engineering Fellow [Link]
Medium Top Writer in Design (225K+ views) [Link]
Mercury Spheres Scholarship Recipient [Link]
Rarible Ex-Editorial Writer (front-page feature) [Link]
Unsplash Featured Photographer (5.8M+ views)

Other Highlights:
EDGE NYFW Content Studio Manager [Link]
Emboldly (Nonprofit) NYC Events Lead [Link]
Four Seasons Styling Assistant [Link]
Girls Into VC Fellow & Former Newsletter Editor [Link]
Interior New York Fashion Week Intern [Link]
Kleiner Perkins Fellows Program Alumni Interviewer (2x)
Marie Claire Arabia Photography Assistant [Link]
Mejuri Brand Ambassador (5 yrs) [Link]
Monday Girl Social Club Community Member [Link]
Slow Ventures Design & AI Dinner Invited Guest [Link]
TechCrunch Disrupt Scholarship Attendee [Link]
The Council Angel Investing Community Member [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