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 [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 (<2% acceptance)
Medium Top Writer in Design (225K+ views) [Link]
Mercury Spheres Scholarship Recipient [Link]
Rarible Editorial Writer (front-page feature)
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 Venture Fellow & Ex-Newsletter Editor
Interior NYFW Intern [Link]
Kleiner Perkins Fellows Program Alumni Interviewer (2x)
Marie Claire Arabia Photography Assistant [Link]
Mejuri Brand Ambassador [Link]
Slow Ventures Design & AI Dinner Invited Guest [Link]
Resumé
LinkedIn
Twitter/X
Are.na

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