# Kuan Ru Chen

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Product designer who builds with AI. Based in the Bay Area.

I design for complex human and organizational problems, the kind shaped by
scale, ambiguity, and collaboration. I use AI to prototype ideas, build small
tools, and automate the everyday, so the distance between an idea and a working
thing stays short.

## What I'm looking for

I am graduating in 2026 and looking for a product or UX design role where I can
both design and build, on a team that takes AI seriously as a material, not a
gimmick. I do my best work on problems with real complexity: systems,
workflows, cross-functional and cross-cultural collaboration, and products where
clarity and structure matter.

If that sounds like your team, the fastest way to reach me is email.

## Selected work

- **Cross-Cultural Collaboration Rhythms** (2025). Designed a collaboration
  rhythm layer to reduce expectation mismatch in distributed, cross-cultural
  teams.
- **GitRoll** (2025). Designed and shipped the AI profile and name-card
  experience, and improved the recruiting flow for both candidates and
  recruiters.
- **Homelessness in San Francisco** (2024). A data and human-stories exploration
  of a city-scale social problem.

Case studies for each are on my site.

## How I work

My work sits at the intersection of behavior, technology, and communication. I
care about clarity and structure. I think in systems, and I like shortening the
loop between deciding something and seeing it run.

I build with AI in my actual practice: prototyping interfaces, shipping small
products and tools, and automating repetitive parts of the work. I treat AI as a
collaborator that gives me volume and speed, while the taste, judgment, and final
calls stay mine.

## Skills

- UX strategy, interaction design, system design, information architecture
- User interviews, usability testing, rapid prototyping, iterative design
- Prototyping and shipping small products with AI
- Tools: Figma, Cursor, Claude Code, HTML and CSS, p5.js

## Experience

- **GitRoll**, 2025 June to September
- **AMA Career**, 2024 August to October
- **Metamory**, 2023 June to September

## Education

**California College of the Arts**, 2022 to 2026.
BFA, HCI (Interaction Design) and Computational Practice.

## A bit more about me

- I keep a camera with me almost everywhere and shoot regularly.
- I recharge by wandering the Bay Area with my energetic dog, Heisen.
- President of the Taiwanese Student Association.
- Languages: English (working proficiency), Mandarin (native).

## Contact

- Email: kuanrur@gmail.com
- Portfolio: https://kuanrrr.com

_Last updated 2026-06-13._