Eric Chu
Co-Founder at StorySwag
Los Angeles, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolEric Chu is a founding designer and product leader with over 20 years of experience creating multi-platform user experiences and building companies from the ground up. As co-founder of Simplenote and StorySwag and former design/product lead at companies like Mobcrush, Capture, and POKE New York, he combines creative direction, interaction design, and product strategy to ship elegant, user-loved products. He’s led design teams, crafted design systems for React Native and Expo, and built a custom animation and compositing engine that helped StorySwag maintain a 4.9 rating for six years. Eric’s work spans end-to-end product thinking—from acquisition and analytics to retention and customer support—reflecting a rare blend of hands-on craft and business acumen. Based in Los Angeles, he pairs a UCLA computer science background with a knack for storytelling and rapid prototyping to turn complex needs into simple, delightful interfaces. Colleagues note his curiosity and unexpected detail-orientation—he even cites eating french fries as a specialty—hinting at a pragmatic, personable leadership style.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
University of California, Los Angeles
Stackoverflow
3reputation
237reached
1answer
2questions
Github Skills (76)
wcag10
middleman10
wai-aria10
axe10
font-awesome10
accessibility10
css10
contrast10
sketch9
sketch-plugin9
ui-design9
react9
static-site-generation9
sketch-app9
adobe-xd8
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
chufucious/sundowners.org
Jul 2023 - Aug 2024
Contributions:5 PRs, 89 pushes, 6 branches in 1 year 1 month
chufucious/config
Mar 2015 - Jan 2019
Contributions:39 pushes in 3 years 10 months
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