About Me

Crystal Chen is an US(NYC)-based Product / UX Designer specializing in designing products, services, and experiences for retail, e-commerce, hospitality, travel, and cultural products. She currently leads UX design across four products, e-commerce, inventory management, travel booking, and field operations applications, at a hospitality technology startup in New York.

Crystal has a unique background spanning three layers of experience design within the hospitality and retail ecosystem: physical experience (physical UX), service experience (operational UX), and digital experience (e-commerce and mobile products). This multidisciplinary expertise gives her a holistic understanding of user needs across the industry. She has extensive experience building products and features from 0 to 1, creating seamless end-to-end experiences that drive user satisfaction and business growth.

Besides, Crystal possesses strong illustration and visual merchandising skills, bringing additional branding and marketing value to her clients and projects.

She graduated from Parsons School of Design, one of the leading design schools in the United States.

Recent Recognitions

Muse Design Award 2026
Gold Winner

NY Product Design 2025
Silver Winner

UX Design Award 2025
Honorable Mentions

IDA Design Award 2023
Brown Winner (group work project)

A' Design Award 2022
Silver Winner (group work project)

My Skillsets

Product Strategy

UX Research

UX Research

Roadmapping

Roadmapping

User Persona

User Persona

Storyboarding

Storyboarding

Journey Mapping

Journey Mapping

Usability Testing

Usability Testing

A/B Testing

A/B Testing

Product / UXUI Design

Information Architecture

Information Architecture

Interaction Design

Interaction Design

Wireframing

Wireframing

Prototyping

Prototyping

Visualization / Visual Design

Visualization / Visual Design

UI Design System

UI Design System

UX Writing

UX Writing

Storytelling

Storytelling

Tools

Tools


Figma

Figma

FigJam

FigJam

Adobe Creative Suite

Adobe Creative Suite

Framer

Framer

MIro

MIro

Jira

Jira

Maze AI

Maze AI

Experience (Features / Flow)

Discovery, Search, Product Listing, Product Detail, Cart, Checkout, Subscription, Booking, Inventory Management, Procurement Workflows, Quoting Systems, Analytics Dashboards, Task Management, User Management, Wishlist Management, etc

Lauguage

English (advanced), Mandarin Chinese (native), Cantonese (native)

My Education

Parsons - School of Design
Master of Science - Strategic Design & Management

Parsons - School of Design
Master of Science - Strategic Design & Management

South China Agricultural University
Bachelor of Art - Environmental Design (Human + Space Interaction Focus)

South China Agricultural University
Bachelor of Art - Environmental Design (Human + Space Interaction Focus)

Certificate
AI x UX Design (by Elvtr)
UX Design Certificate (by Google)
Product Management Certificate (by IBM, on-going)
Foundation in Design Thinking (by IDEO)

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