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
Product / UXUI Design
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
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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