Summary
Sanghyun Lee is a Senior Product Designer with 11 years of multidisciplinary experience marrying industrial design, HCI, and full-stack development sensibilities to build impactful, AI-driven health and productivity products. He has led design systems and AI integrations across clinical domains—delivering a $3M annual ROI from an incidental liver lesions app and improving developer efficiency by 30%—while guiding cross-functional teams from 0-to-1 startups to enterprise healthcare platforms. Trained at the University of Michigan in Human-Computer Interaction and grounded in industrial product design, he blends hands-on prototyping (Raspberry Pi IoT projects) with rigorous UX research and regulatory-aware AI GRC practices. He’s taught web accessibility to undergraduates, directed usability studies at IBM and Google, and spearheaded a newsletter app that reached 20K users through thoughtful growth and localization features. Notably, his background as an industrial designer and former squad leader in the Korean army informs a pragmatic, systems-oriented approach to design and team leadership. Outside work he channels problem-solving and collaboration into rock climbing, treating routes like embodied UX puzzles.
11 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree Bachelor of Fine Arts Industrial and Product Design, Bachelor’s Degree Bachelor of Fine Arts Industrial and Product Design at University of Michigan
Master's degree Human Computer Interaction, Master's degree Human Computer Interaction at University of Michigan - School of Information
High School, High School at Brentwood College School
English, Korean