Hanson Wu
Principal Product Designer at Yahoo
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolHanson Wu is a Principal Product Designer with 14 years of experience blending product design and software development across in-house teams, agencies, and freelance work. He leads design at Yahoo Sports after shaping product experiences at The Athletic (acquired by The New York Times) and Metalab, bringing a pragmatic mix of research-driven UX and business-aligned decision making. Trained in computer science and an early-career software developer, Hanson uniquely bridges front-end and back-end thinking—evidenced by full-stack contributions to open-source projects like MarkUs. He excels at translating complex requirements into thoughtful, testable designs through close team collaboration and iterative validation. Based in Vancouver, he favors intentional, measurable design that balances user needs with product goals.
14 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Commerce Combined Major Business and Computer Science, Bachelor of Commerce Combined Major Business and Computer Science at The University of British Columbia
Github Skills (6)
css10
rails10
ruby-on-rails10
html9
activerecord8
javascript5
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (3)
MarkUsProject/Markus
Jan 2012 - Mar 2012
Git repository of MarkUs
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:27 commits in 1 month
Contributions summary:Hanson contributed significantly to the MarkUs repository, focusing on both front-end and back-end development. Their work includes CSS styling modifications, notably removing and reintroducing font-family declarations. They also implemented features in the submissions view, such as adding a section column and related sorting functionality. Furthermore, the user made code adjustments in models, helpers, controllers, and views across several key files.
git-repositorymarkdownmarkus
hansonywu/hansonywu.github.io
May 2015 - Apr 2020
Contributions:227 pushes, 6 branches in 5 years
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