Lisa Sy
Senior Staff Product Designer at Coinbase
California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolLisa Sy is a Senior Staff Product Designer based in California with over a decade of hands-on experience shaping consumer and creator-facing products at companies like Coinbase, Instagram, Meta, and Forem. She blends product strategy, systems thinking, and front-end chops—having contributed UI improvements and onboarding flows to notable open-source projects like Forem—to drive measurable user growth and healthier communities. As a founder of multiple creative ventures, including Lisa Sy Studio and Natural Matter, she brings entrepreneurial rigor and an artist’s eye to product and brand work. Lisa is adept at building design teams and processes, shipping features for creator monetization and equity-focused experiences, and running fast research-feedback loops on small, nimble teams. Her background in illustration and comics subtly informs a human-centered visual language that helps complex systems feel approachable. She often couples design leadership with hands-on implementation, bridging strategy, visual craft, and front-end execution.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
B.A. American Studies Race and Ethnicity, B.A. American Studies Race and Ethnicity at Wesleyan University
English, Chinese, French, Chinese
Stackoverflow
67reputation
6kreached
2answers
7questions
Github Skills (21)
javascript10
css10
ui-design10
uid10
front-end-development10
html10
middleman10
react10
documentation10
ux-design9
co8
ruby-on-rails6
galery6
fontello6
firefox6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
forem/forem
Mar 2020 - Jun 2021
For empowering community 🌱
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:116 reviews, 32 commits, 68 PRs in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Lisa primarily contributed to the front-end development of the Forem platform, with a focus on improving the user interface and user experience, specifically for the onboarding process. They introduced new UI components, refactored existing ones, and implemented Crayons styling. The user also added and updated tests to reflect the changes in the UI and ensure functionality. They also updated the responsiveness of connect chats on smaller viewports.
reactrailsrubyempoweringfeedback
middleman/middlemanapp.com
Nov 2014 - Nov 2014
Documentation for Middleman
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits in 8 days
Contributions summary:Lisa contributed to the documentation website by implementing front-end features and styling. They added markup and copy for the community section, which included adding layout, icons, and links. They also refactored code, including container names and JavaScript syntax, to improve the website's structure and maintainability. The user's work is focused on improving the user interface and the overall presentation of Middleman's documentation.
middlemanrubyglossary
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