Summary
Alven Wang is an independent designer and developer based in New York with 11 years of experience crafting web and mobile products that blend thoughtful UX with hands-on engineering. He has shipped cross-platform experiences with over 15,000 downloads and 2,000 monthly active users, and previously helped build the mongodb.design system while working on product-design initiatives at MongoDB. His background spans product design roles in healthcare and education—leading mobile app releases at HeartFlow and single-handedly designing teacher tools for a government-funded education platform—paired with front-end engineering work using SASS, Ruby, and AngularJS. Alven combines cognitive science training from UC Berkeley with practical prototyping skills (Sketch, Xcode, SVG/animation) to turn research-informed insights into polished, shipped features. Known for moving between design systems and implementation, he brings both product sensitivity and the technical ability to take concepts through to production.
11 years of coding experience
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Cognitive Science, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Cognitive Science at University of California, Berkeley