Summary
Ruyi Chen is a Senior Product Designer with 9 years of experience crafting human-centered products that drive business impact and social good. With a background spanning filmmaking, HCI, and interactive installations, she blends narrative-driven design and technical prototyping to create compelling experiences—from DoorDash’s advertiser platform that scaled new revenue streams to onboarding flows at Upwork that lifted key conversion metrics. Currently shaping core product at GlossGenius, she excels at cross-functional alignment, design systems, and fast iteration in high-growth platforms for small business owners. A proud generalist who codes in Unity/C# for immersive projects and volunteers for wildlife causes, Ruyi brings a curiosity-driven, multidisciplinary approach that surfaces unexpected insight and empathy in product decisions.
9 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Interactive Media Arts @Tisch (Focus on HCI), Bachelor's Interactive Media Arts @Tisch (Focus on HCI) at New York University
Transfer out Film & Television production, Transfer out Film & Television production at Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University
University of California, Los Angeles
English, Chinese