Young-hwa Kang
Co-Founder, CDO at Else, Inc.
Seoul, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolYoung-hwa Kang is a design founder and product designer with 11 years of experience building user-centered products from zero, including serving as the first product designer at Toss where she shaped internal design systems and productivity tools at a $10B fintech. She co-founded IF Corp., scaling a mental-health and fortune-telling app to over 1 million users and $2M ARR, and now leads Else, Inc. as CDO building a personalized English AI tutor. Comfortable across mobile, web, and platform design, she has driven large design renewals, typeface releases, and successful crowdfunding for merchandise, blending creative craft with measurable business impact. Based in Seoul with a Hongik University design background, she pairs hands-on UI/UX and design-system leadership with a founder’s appetite for product-market traction and AI-driven learning experiences.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Design and Visual Communications, General, Bachelor’s Degree, Design and Visual Communications, General at Hongik University
English, Korean
Github Skills (6)
fonts10
webfonts10
music9
stock8
photography6
nlp1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
youngkang-design/youngkang-design.github.io
Nov 2015 - Feb 2019
Contributions:2 PRs, 81 pushes, 2 branches in 3 years 3 months
spoqa/spoqa-han-sans
Oct 2015 - Jul 2017
Spoqa Han Sans
Contributions:63 commits, 86 PRs, 54 pushes in 1 year 9 months
webfontsfontshansans
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