Karen Ni

Karen Ni

Designer and Educator in San Francisco, she/her

About

I design interfaces and teach design. I'm dedicated to building thoughtful and intuitive systems for all.

Got a project or looking for a designer? Say hi ☺️

Contact

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Work Experience

2024 — Now
Senior Product Designer at Google X

Leading design on distribution grid product suite to visualize grid assets and plan large-scale grid simulation

2024 — 2024

Redesigned generative AI avatar video creation, core navigation, and workspace invites, improving usability for 1.5 million monthly users

2023 — 2024

Led core product experience on active learning and multimodal platform to expand data search, query, and training for enterprises — See work below ⤵

2022 — 2023

Taught and developed courses in experience design and communications with the MDes Interaction Design program

2021 — 2023

Joined pre-product as the Founding Designer and grew the product and team leading to 500+ insurance businesses using our financial infrastructure — See work below ⤵

2019 — 2021

Designed buyer experiences for partnerships and Atlassian's company-wide shift to Cloud deployment

Projects

2023

Designed the main menu for Paper Son Coffee, located at Neighbor Bakehouse in Dogpatch, SF. And made some coffee!

Education

BA Ethnic Studies at UC Berkeley

Highest Honors, Magna Cum Laude