Yan Wang

Head of Design · AI Products

Design leader for AI-native products with 10+ years across product, brand and motion. Founding design hire who builds the design function, sets the visual bar and ships AI products from 0→1, from conversational agents to agentic design systems. Trained in fine art and design at CAFA and RISD.

  • yanwanguiux.com
  • yanwanguiux@gmail.com
  • +1 401-209-5910
  • Philadelphia, USA

Awards -

  • Muse Design Awards Gold, ’25
  • NY Product Design Gold, ’25
  • 3X ADPList Top 100 Mentor, ’24–’25

Education -

Rhode Island School of DesignMDes · Landscape Architecture, 2012–2014
Central Academy of Fine ArtsBA · Architecture, 2007–2012

Academic -

Thesis Guest Critic, RISDMid-point and final critiques on VR/AR and Metaverse thesis projects, 2023

Expertise -

  • Visual Design & Brand
  • AI & Agent UX
  • Motion & Interaction
  • Design Systems
  • Design Engineering
  • Product Strategy
  • Design Team Building
  • Prototyping

Tools -

  • Adobe Creative Suite
  • Figma
  • Cursor & Claude Code
  • Jitter & Lottie
  • Framer & Webflow
  • Blender
  • Midjourney
  • Codepen

Selected Certifications -

  • Design MBA, ’26
  • AI-Assisted App Development, ’25
  • UI Engineering, ’25
  • Become an AI Designer, ’24
  • Coding Foundation, ’23
  • Product Strategy for Designer, ’22

Experience -

Associate Director of Design, Code and Theory

Jun 2026 – PresentFull-time, Remote

  • PUNT super app: leading design as PUNT grows from one product into a super app for prediction markets, social gaming and collectibles. Own visual quality end to end: raise the visual bar of AI-generated output, refine the product’s motion and interaction, and build runnable splash and pack-opening prototypes, timed from slide-to-rip and tearing the seal to the card-flip reveal, reviewed on real devices.
  • Stitchfix AI features, as Design Engineer: interactive coded prototypes of AI features, so the client sees AI behavior, motion and states live, not as static mocks.
  • Agentic design system: built an AI-callable mobile and desktop component library, plus the design system and AI skills connecting design and code; the team ships production-ready prototypes at delivery speed.
  • Progressive delivery: drove adoption of an AI-native design-to-code process that ships 2–4 working product increments every sprint at full visual fidelity.

Product Design Lead, Validation Cloud

Dec 2025 – Apr 2026 · 5 mosFull-time, Remote

Senior Product Designer

Jun 2023 – Dec 2025 · 2 yr 7 mosFull-time, Remote

  • Pre-seed to Series A: founding design hire; built the design function from zero and grew it to a team of two as the company raised Series A in under 3 years.
  • Repositioned the company as Data × AI: led Mavrik, an AI agent for on-chain data, from concept to v3.0, defining its AI interaction model: natural-language exploration, autonomous agents, presentation-ready dashboards. Secured Series A and a first global financial-institution client.
  • Staking platform: $1B+ in assets staked and 400% YoY growth in year one; portfolio reporting cut from 8+ hours to under a minute. Sole designer across 6+ iterations.
  • One Design OS for the whole company: led the team building an internal brand library and tools, unified into an agentic Design OS across 5 products. Teams now ship on-brand prototypes, web pages, slides and BD and marketing materials on their own; also led the rebrand and investor decks for 2 funding rounds.

Product Designer, RECUR

Jun 2022 – May 2023 · 1 yrFull-time, Remote

  • First designer on RECUR Builder: led design for the leading NFT startup’s no-code platform, which major IPs used to launch their NFT programs, including Paramount, Nickelodeon, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Hello Kitty and Playtika.
  • 0→1 in 8 months: turned 30+ fragmented workflows into one roadmap and shipped the full NFT lifecycle; usability up ~20%; the design system let 20+ engineers ship independently.

AI Products & Design Systems -

Navi · Telecom intelligence, two Design OS 2026 · Design Consultant, part-time

  • Navi Corp Design OS, rebrand: the company now works AI-native: anyone ships on-brand pages, decks and ads, with far less front-end effort and faster delivery.
  • CSA Design OS, B2B multi-brand: one source now powers 5 brands incl. Xfinity, Spectrum and Google Pilot, with design and code in sync; adding or switching a brand needs no redesign, as every prototype, doc and ad follows.

Archer.bot · AI agent 2025–26 · Founding Designer, part-time

  • Archer Design OS: took the company from no brand to a launched product, site and deck, helping close pre-seed funding; the site lifted early visibility and organic search.

VOC.ai, Solvea & Shulex · AI CX platforms 2023–24 · Design Consultant, part-time

  • VOC.ai rebrand, design system and website: +158.9% user growth; onboarding and dashboard redesign: +162.7% new registrations. Solvea storytelling site: +10% business registrations; Shulex global design system for 3 continents in two weeks.

Earlier -

UI & UX Designer, Freelance 2020–2022

  • Founding designer for early-stage startups across e-commerce, language learning, VR/AR and SaaS websites, taking each from concept to launch-ready product.

Founder & Design Lead, 100DAS 2015–2018

  • Founded an art e-commerce marketplace 0→1; the MVP secured angel funding, then grew to an 8-person team, profitable in 1.5 years.