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