Lennon Cheng
Principal Product Designer at Canva
Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolLennon Cheng is a Principal Product Designer with 9 years' experience shaping discovery, search and GenAI experiences at Canva from enterprise search to Universal Search and patented deep content retrieval. Based in Amsterdam, they blend product strategy with craft—design systems, interaction design and multimedia storytelling—to translate complex search problems into intuitive, scalable interfaces. Lennon has worked across startups, government and enterprise clients, led design systems at Xero, and teaches and speaks on curiosity and design, bringing a strong pedagogical and community-facing streak. Outside product work they produce a Mandarin LGBTQIA+ podcast, reflecting a creative practice in storytelling and audio that informs their human-centered design approach.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree Information Technology, Bachelor's Degree Information Technology at The University of Queensland
English, Chinese
Github Skills (3)
react6
css6
javascript5
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
lennonzf/lennonzf.github.io
Jul 2016 - Apr 2020
Personal portfolio
Contributions:259 commits, 48 PRs, 362 pushes in 3 years 9 months
cssjavascriptreactreactjs
martinbjeldbak/outlor
Mar 2017 - Jun 2017
Contributions:25 commits, 2 PRs, 17 pushes in 2 months
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