Summary
Justin Wang is a designer with 13 years of experience crafting brands, websites, and product tooling, currently shaping experience at Cursor after helping build OpenAI’s design practice from the ground up. With a Mechanical Engineering background from UC Berkeley and hands-on front-end development roots, he blends rigorous systems thinking with aesthetic and typographic sensibilities. His work at OpenAI spanned communications, identity, editorial, internal tools, information visualization, and even merchandise—demonstrating a wide remit beyond conventional product design. Previously he balanced agency work and creative development for clients like Google, NBC, Columbia University, and School of Visual Arts, which honed his pragmatic delivery across code and craft. An alumnus of Type@Cooper who once got “expelled” from typography school, he brings an uncommon mix of engineering discipline, typographic curiosity, and product-first execution to design problems.
13 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
B.S./M.S. Mechanical Engineering, B.S./M.S. Mechanical Engineering at University of California, Berkeley
Typeface Design, Typeface Design at Type@Cooper