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

Twitter/X

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Wish

World’s most-downloaded e-commerce app at the time with 73M+ monthly active users and an annual revenue of $1.9B.

I designed the product recommendation experience for Fulfillment by Wish (FBW)—an initiative that enabled merchants on our platform to store inventory in domestic warehouses to expedite international shipping. Our launch led to $34M+ in related GMV and 1.8M+ orders.

I was responsible for designing the landing page, defining the user experience, identifying key user flows, creating original illustrations, developing a custom logo, and producing a full suite of marketing assets including banners and icons for merchant-facing features.

You can also learn more about my internship experience through my blog post, featured on Wish’s Engineering And Data Science Blog. There, I detail the valuable lessons, insightful takeaways, and projects I spearheaded.

Ultimately, a total of 50K+ shipments were made to our international warehouses following the approval of thousands of merchant applications through our FBW platform launch. I also revamped and presented our team’s new design system, designed custom team merch, and .

Brand Design
Design Systems
Illustration Design
Interaction Design
Product Design
Visual Design