Hi, I’m Michelle Chiu


Lead designer with 7+ years of experience at Coinbase, Meta Creative X, MongoDB, and high-growth startups such as Axiom, BuzzFeed, Daimo, Shibuya, Wish, etc. My work has impacted ~3B+ users globally and contributed to ~$50M+ in funding and revenue across B2B, consumer, crypto/web3, and fashion-tech.

Clients/Experience:
Authoritative, Alta, ARI, Axiom, Beam, BuzzFeed, Cherry Pick, Coinbase, Daimo, DoorDash, Easy Labs, Four Seasons, Frog Design, 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:
Bureau Betak Stand-In Model (2x) [Link]
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 [Link]
Monday Girl Social Club Community Member [Link]
Slow Ventures Design & AI Dinner Invited Guest [Link]
The Council Angel Investing Community Member [Link]

Resumé  /  LinkedIn  /  Twitter  /  Are.na

BuzzFeed Tasty


#1 most watched media and entertainment publisher with 500M+ monthly viewers, #1 most followed Facebook page, and 7.9B+ YouTube watch minutes at the time. Tasty.co consistently earned 10M+ page views per month—seeing a 4.5x growth in view count over the last two years. 

I designed solutions to increase video binging across our web and mobile applications on BuzzFeed Tasty, which had ~100M followers on Facebook alone.

While the platform was primarily for recipe discovery and cooking, there was untapped potential for Tasty.co to support additional video binging scenarios in addition to its cooking use case. Time spent per user on our sites increased significantly overall due to video autoplay.

Additionally, I ideated solutions for the Tasty platform to display nutrition information alongside each recipe across our mobile and web applications. 

You can also learn more about my internship experience through my blog post, featured on BuzzFeed Design’s Medium Blog or our intern spotlight blog post which I led and curated with our intern class. In those pieces, I detail how I landed my internships, what I worked on, and the highlight of my work experience. 

Deck Design
Interaction Design
Motion Design
Product Design
User Research
Visual Design