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, Cherry Pick, Daimo, 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, Frog Design, Instagram, Kodely, Megapot, Meta Creative X, MongoDB, Peanie, Pistachio, Prism, Rubi, Shibuya, Wish

Awards & Recognition:
Adobe Design Achievement Awards Recipient
Bestfolios Editor’s Pick Featured Site
Design Nation Conference Selected Attendee
Facebook GH Scholarship Recipient (1 of 25 worldwide)
Hexagon UX Mentorship Program Selected Participant
IDEO CoLab Makeathon Selected Participant
Kleiner Perkins Engineering Fellow
Medium Top Writer in Design (225K+ views)
Mercury Spheres Scholarship Recipient
Rarible Editorial Writer (front-page feature)
Unsplash Featured Photographer (3.5M+ views)

Other Highlights:
Bureau Betak Stand-In Model (2x)
EDGE NYFW Content Studio Manager
Emboldly NYC (Nonprofit) Events Manager
Four Seasons Styling Assistant
Girls Into VC Venture Fellow & Former Newsletter Editor
Interior NYFW Intern
Kleiner Perkins Fellows Program Alumni Interviewer (2x)
Marie Claire Arabia Photography Assistant
Mejuri Brand Ambassador
Slow Ventures Design & AI Dinner Invited Guest
Resumé
Twitter/X
Are.na
Instagram

Clay (Take-Home)


Creative tool helping 100K+ people grow their businesses through data, experimentation, and automation—powering enterprises from local pizza shops to Anthropic and Notion. The team has raised a $100M Series C in 2025 at a $3.1B valuation and are backed by world-class investors like Capital G (Google), Sequoia and Meritech.

I helped the team brainstorm ideas on how users could discover, use, create, templates for AI prompts. My designs focused on how could we enable people to:
  • Learn what the Use AI column action can do via examples in the form of Clay-provided templates
  • Discover Clay-provided and custom templates that are relevant to my use cases
  • Apply a template to a column’s configuration and try it out to see if it’s generating the correct outputs
  • Update configurations after applying a template so that they could start from something close to what they want, but customize it to their specific needs
  • Save a column configuration as a custom template (either overwriting an existing template or saving it as a new template)
  • Organize saved custom templates in a way that affords easily finding custom templates in the future

Content Design
Copywriting
Interaction Design
Product Design
Web Design