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About

Tony Lin

I've traveled an interesting road from fine arts to the tech world. My career has been a journey of exploring how I can merge creativity with technology to breathe life into my designs. If you're looking for someone who can create high-converting MVPs or want to connect about innovative ideas in product design, feel free to reach out here or tonylin415@gmail.com. Looking forward to it!

Experience

Apr 2026 – Jun 2026

Davis, CA

Acting Product Design Lead

Design Interactive

  • Led a creative optimization strategy that leveraged AI insights, decreasing iteration cycles by 4 days per week and shipping an end-to-end app in under 3 weeks
  • Mentored 3 junior designers through bi-weekly workshops on direct response fundamentals, which enhanced team task completion by 12% within 30 days and fostered a culture of continuous improvement

Feb 2026 – Jun 2026

Davis, CA

Brand Development & Growth Marketing Lead

Product Space

  • Synthesized creator formats, site KPI, and Instagram performance data that drove impressions up 8-fold, rising from ~1,100 to ~8,900 within six weeks
  • Orchestrated a brand identity overhaul with a design system of 30+ visual assets for ad campaigns that boosted social media direct response by 49% while meeting tight GTM partner timelines

Jan 2026 – Jun 2026

Davis, CA

Frontend Web, iOS, & Android Developer

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  • Bridged design-to-production handoffs and cloud infrastructure by translating high-fidelity prototypes into a modular UI component library that accelerated feature deployment by 12%
  • Architected modules aligned with design tokens to eliminate layout conflicts and UI inconsistencies, reducing navigation-related user friction by 10%
  • Implemented state management using backend integration to eliminate friction, reducing drop-off rates by 15%

Jan 2024 – Dec 2024

Remote

Product Designer & Conversion Optimization Analyst

Infinite Options

  • Designed UI that scaled 10 cross-platform SaaS applications from 0 to 1 across web and mobile apps (iOS & Android), reducing time-to-task for key features by 20%
  • Drove a 90% adoption rate of new design collateral, ensuring adherence to WCAG policies to eliminate design debt across 160+ high-fidelity assets

Education

Expected Sep 2027

University of California, Irvine

M.S. in Human-Computer Interaction & Design

Jun 2026

University of California, Davis

B.A. in Design, Minor in Art Studio · GPA 3.8 · Dean's Honor List 2024

Toolkit

Design & Prototyping

  • Figma
  • Framer
  • Adobe CC
  • Design Systems
  • Wireframing
  • Prototyping

Frontend

  • JavaScript
  • React
  • Node
  • Vite
  • Tailwind CSS
  • Modular CSS
  • WCAG
  • Git

AI Design & Dev

  • Claude Code
  • Codex
  • Copilot
  • v0
  • Figma Make
  • Midjourney