Melody Chen

Melody Chen

Designer in New York, She/her

About

Product creative, builder, learner. Currently designing in the B2B SaaS + agentic space.

Work Experience

2024 — Now

Building Workato Genie (AI agent)

2022 — 2023
UX Designer Intern at Amazon

2x intern @ AWS Fintech. created in-app notification design system scalable across all Fintech products

2022 — 2022
Teaching Assistant at USC

helped teach design concepts and tools

2021 — 2021
Strategy Consultant (Industry Lab) at Google

proposed research and out-of-the-box designs for the future of IoT to Google Creative Lab

2021 — 2021
Interaction Design Intern at Apple

worked on tool streamlining internal feedback loop between design, research, engineering, and content teams

Projects

2024
Loop

using AI and computer vision to match women with bras on the market to up to 97% accuracy. raised seed money and led team of 4 engineers

2023
Descent Magazine at Innovative Design

managed team of 4 to redesign and develop web ecosystem for client

2022
Backstage

mobile app fostering genuine connections between content creators and their audience

Awards

2024

won concept prize among ~200 contestant teams

2023

$10,000 awarded annually to an undergraduate student or student team that demonstrates exceptional creativity and feasibility in the design of a breakthrough product

2022

won final pitch prize in S'22 cohort of USC's premiere start-up incubator

2023

Writing

2024

took a stab at improving current Instacart UX and proposing new AI features

Education

2020 — 2024

1 of 30 students in the 7th cohort of the Iovine & Young Academy. spent 4 years pitching, coding, tinkering in the makerspace, and building disruptive (sometimes silly) innovations

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