Designer
Designer
Yo, I’m Christie. I’m currently a Product Designer at Meta, and I’m also part of the selected jury at Awwwards. My designs have a clean and modern aesthetic with experience ranging from video game, entertainment, consumer brands, automotive, and financial companies.
I love to travel! And I’ve lived in quite a few places myself. I grew up in Seattle, lived in Shanghai, studied at Boston University, worked in LA, and am now in the bay area. I adapt quickly to new environments and take inspiration from all of my experiences.
My strengths are working with exceptional speed against enigmatic ambiguity, high craft in visual designs, scrappy “figure it out” mentality, and the ability to learn anything quickly.
During my free time, I publish articles with UX Collective and OneZero to help junior designers learn about visual design, UI/UX trends, and best practices, and passion topics such as health and psychology. My writing style is pretty much how I talk; hyper-casual, sarcastic, and a little bit crass. Some of my top articles have 500k+ views, and for a brief moment of stardom I was one of the top 5 design writers on Medium.
I like to watch anime, headbang to dubstep, and play video games. Fun fact, my first full-time job was working for a professional League of Legends team. I have a black belt in karate and also train in krav maga. Boba is my religion and keto is my lifestyle. I’m also a great parallel parker.
Nerd
Nerd
I like to watch anime, headbang to dubstep, and play video games. Fun fact, my first full-time job was working for a professional League of Legends team. I have a black belt in karate and also train in krav maga. Boba is my religion and keto is my lifestyle. I’m also a great parallel parker.
I swam competitively for 9 years and in high school I was captain of our Varsity Swim Team. In college I played on the women’s club water polo team as sprinter. Yes water polo is super hard.
Before design, I had originally wanted to be a UX Researcher and spent three years working in an academic psychophysics lab. My work was later published in a paper in PNAS, a highly esteemed psychology journal as second author.
From 2016-2020 I founded Tangy Design as a sole proprietor and sold hand painted water color designs. The designs were mainly of cell phone cases, sold online but also at pop up shops at various artisan markets in LA.
I organized three large scale company events for Gaotime for their annual sports day. There were about 250 attendees and I had a lot of fun planning all the small details. I’m also usually the go-to person for fun events and food ordering at work.
Gold in Interactive Design Category (2021)
Gold in WordPress Themes (2021)
Silver in UX, Interface & Navigation Category (2021)
Silver in Website Design (2021)
Site of the day (2020)
Orpetron Web Design Appreciation (2020)
Mindsparkle Mag (2020)
Bestfolios (2020)
Awwwards (2020)
Medium (2019)
The Designership Design Competition (2017)
Sketch Together Design Competition (2017)
Optimity Advisors (2017)
(7/7 SEMESTERS)
Boston University
(TOP 15% IN GRADUATING CLASS)
Boston University
Summer Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP)
Boston University Women’s Water Polo
Collegiate Water Polo Association
Shanghai American School Varsity Swim Team
