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LesleyYing

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A San Francisco-based product designer. I specialize in systems-driven product design, leveraging technical craft, product strategy, AI tooling, and cross-functional fluency to scale high-impact solutions.

As a collaborator, student, mentor, with 8+ years of experience spanning early startups to big corporations — Meta, Intuit and Walmart, I bring passion, technical craft, systems thinking, and cross-functional fluency to my work.

Features shipped

Design system components

People reached

Years experience

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Experience

PositionSenior Product Designer
TypeFull-time
CompanyFacebook
Year2021 — 2026
PositionSenior Product Designer
TypeContract
CompanyIntuit
Year2021
PositionProduct Designer
TypeFull-time
CompanyWalmart
Year2018 — 2021
PositionUX/UI Designer
TypeFull-time
CompanyAwake
Year2017 — 2018

Skills

Design System & Strategy
Product partnerships
System Framework & Governance
Design Language
Accessibility Standards (MVA5)
AI-Native Practice
AI Prototyping (Claude, Cursor, XCode)
Agentic Component Pipeline
AI-Tooling and Judgement
Second brain (Obsidian, MyClaw)

Design Ethos

Craft

Beyond visual polish, it is sweating the details and thinking holistically and end-to-end to deliver quality outcomes.

Cohesion

The practice of building towards a harmonious and flexible ecosystem beyond the individual feature. It is form and function at scale.

Constraints

Functionally drives clarity and accessibility. It reduces over-designing or engineering, allowing teams to distill experiences down to their essence.

Collaboration

Drives operational, executional rigor. It is the collective efforts of cross-functional expertise that bring forth the most vetted and durable solutions.

Consensus

Valuing cross-functional alignment in an environment where all voices are heard, where one can disagree safely, and where decisions are made as a team.