Sally Chen

Sally Chen

Product Designer

About

frontend engineer and hci researcher -turned product designer.
previously designing end-to-end experiences, design systems, and 0-1 AI products.

Work Experience

2023 — 2023
Product Designer at Contenda

Led the end-to-end research and design of 10+ AI-powered editing features for a product/eng team of 9 to drive growth and retention. Created and scaled Contenda’s first design system with full component adoption, boosting frontend efficiency and WCAG AA compatibility by 90%. Drove customer acquisition by spearheading the product strategy, design, and QA of Contenda’s first user dashboard and login service.

2021 — 2022
Product Designer at National Science Foundation & CMU CHIMPS Group

Led 3 designers, in partnership with with CMU’s Privacy Research Group, to revamp a web application for democratizing Machine Learning Bias education. Moderated 30+ user testing sessions and 5 design reviews to redesign the ML bias auditing workflow, boosting task completion by 50%. Collaborated with 6 engineers in designing and shipping a ML Bias discussion forum, acquiring an active user base of 1,000+ participants.

2020 — 2021
Lead UX Designer & Engineer at Adobe Research & Brown PTC Lab

Spearheaded the end-to-end redesign, with 12 engineers/researchers, of Dash, a B2B hypermedia data management webapp sponsored by Adobe Research.
Initiated and moderated 50+ usability tests and interviews to pinpoint and prioritize 12 usability improvements for 3000+ end customers.  Revamped the UI/UX of navigations, database/file management, and third-party integrations, boosting task satisfaction by 80%.

2019 — 2020
UX Researcher at KAIST Interaction Lab

Reimagined ways to help novice student programmers approach coding problems. Conducted 20+ user interview, think alouds, and wizard-of-oz tests to inform a new MVP for AlgoPlan. Paper published/presented at ACM Learning@Scale.

Projects

2022
Rally Up at United Health Group

Researched, strategized, and designed a wellness dashboard for United Health Group, to enhance employee engagement in their wellness programs.

2021
FleetOps Data Dashboard at SPIN Scooters

Designed an efficient scooter distribution and data visualization experience for a scooter company's internal employees, that set a new standard for Spin's future user-centered visualizations.

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