Bridging design and engineering to build systems with strategic business value.

I'm Gabriel, a Taipei-based Product Designer leveraging a front-end engineering mindset (Design Technologist) to solve complex digital challenges.

Core Skillset

The toolkit merging UX logic, system architecture, and frontend integration.
Advanced

Figma / Design Systems

  • Creates highly automated design systems with cross-platform variable architecture.
  • Build scalable systems using Variables and Semantic Tokens.
  • Implement 1:1 dev handoff with Boolean logic and RWD breakpoints.
  • Introduce DesignOps to significantly reduce cross-team communication and technical debt.
Advanced

Photoshop

  • Produces high-conversion digital marketing and visual communication assets.
  • Execute high-quality compositing and color correction for cross-platform interfaces.
  • Utilize batch processing and compression for optimized digital assets.
  • Maintain highly iterative design files using non-destructive workflows.
Familiar

Lottie / UI Motion

  • Crafts lightweight interactions balancing visual motion with frontend performance.
  • Create fluid micro-interactions for Web and App interfaces.
  • Integrate animation specs ensuring zero impact on DOM rendering load.
  • Align JSON parameters with frontend developers for state-triggered controls.
Familiar

Illustrator

  • Constructs scalable vector UI components and brand graphics.
  • Design clean vector iconography systems and illustrations.
  • Build brand guidelines including swatches and reusable symbols.
  • Export clean, code-friendly SVGs for frontend component usage.
Familiar

Premiere Pro / AE

  • Produces fluid multimedia videos to support product demonstrations.
  • Plan storyboards, transition logic, and product promotional motion.
  • Incorporate Motion Graphics to strengthen visual storytelling.
  • Export optimized background videos for various digital devices and breakpoints.
Beginner

Rive

  • Utilizes state-machine logic to build real-time interactive UI animations.
  • Design advanced dynamic feedback based on State Machines.
  • Export minimal file sizes to meet strict Web/App performance requirements.
  • Experiment with trigger logic to enhance emotional connection in the UI.
Advanced

CMS Architecture

  • Customizes theme architecture, balancing dev performance and scalability.
  • Build lightweight system architecture and complex Custom Fields (ACF) logic.
  • Implement global variables ensuring alignment with the Design System.
  • Create modular page blocks ensuring seamless handover for client operations.
Advanced

Frontend Integration

  • Proficient in Box Model and Flex/Grid logic for responsive development.
  • Use global styles and modular thinking to rapidly deploy Landing Pages.
  • Manage DOM structure to optimize seamless switching across breakpoints.
  • Execute performance optimization strategies like lazy loading and asset compression.
Advanced

Webflow / Data-Driven

  • Builds responsive layouts and advanced interactions adhering to frontend standards.
  • Establish flexible CMS collections to implement data-driven page templates.
  • Precisely control HTML/CSS tags to ensure clean, bloat-free code output.
  • Connect Webhooks and APIs to achieve cross-system automated workflows.
Familiar

Bootstrap / CSS Architecture

  • Utilizes Sass for modular design, accurately reproducing UI interfaces.
  • Customize grid breakpoints and variables ensuring visual logic across screens.
  • Define CSS Variables aligning perfectly with Figma's Semantic Tokens.
  • Optimize dev handoff with the ability to discuss technical limits with senior RDs.
Familiar

E-commerce Optimization

  • Builds high-conversion e-commerce systems, optimizing user shopping experiences.
  • Utilize RWD to ensure smooth cross-device checkout flows.
  • Integrate marketing automation tools and configure conversion tracking.
  • Integrate third-party APIs and plugins to expand digital service capabilities.
Beginner

Data Tracking Integration

  • Configures tracking codes to establish quantitative data feedback loops.
  • Configure tracking events to gain insights into user behavior.
  • Ensure data collection logic aligns with commercial conversion goals.
  • Optimize page resources to improve Web Vitals performance.
Beginner

Version Control & Ops

  • Masters digital product deployment and basic system operations.
  • Understand domain configuration, DNS, and basic server operational logic.
  • Manage design component libraries as codebases with version iteration control.
  • Ensure system stability and performance optimization during live product updates.
Familiar

Customer Journey Map

  • Visualizes the entire service journey to accurately identify B2B/B2C pain points.
  • Map end-to-end (E2E) experience maps to pinpoint system friction points.
  • Deeply understand real user emotions under high-pressure or complex scenarios.
  • Translate pain points into product features with commercial value.
Familiar

User Mission Analysis

  • Translates complex business goals into clear design actions and priorities.
  • Break down abstract business needs into actionable technical specs for RDs.
  • Plan Sprint development priorities based on the value of core tasks.
  • Ensure solutions meet error-prevention and compliance requirements.
Advanced

Userflow Map

  • Plans multi-role operation paths to build intuitive system task flows.
  • Untangle cross-departmental approvals in multi-module B2B systems.
  • Utilize flowcharts to identify edge cases and logic breaks early.
  • Iterate rapidly with Wireframes to align cognitive understanding with stakeholders.
Advanced

Information Hierarchy & Logic

  • Untangles complex permission logic, enhancing readability for data-heavy UIs.
  • Deconstruct hardcore logic to build clear information tiers.
  • Transform data-heavy UIs into intuitive, decision-making dashboards.
  • Achieve perfect balance between professional info display and cognitive load.
Advanced

Product Blueprint

  • Builds highly scalable system blueprints to support future iterations.
  • Plan forward-looking architecture to reduce rework and refactoring risks.
  • Ensure seamless integration of new features without disrupting user habits.
  • Provide a shared product roadmap for design, dev, and business teams.
Familiar

Personas & Research

  • Uses research data to profile target users, guiding precise product decisions.
  • Extract core design insights from frontline observations or interviews.
  • Define technical familiarity and environmental constraints of the audience.
  • Combine quantitative and qualitative feedback to ensure solutions hit pain points.

My Journey

From human factors to tech-driven digital transformation

Hotel Front Desk Agent

@The Pier, Hong Kong
2021-2022

Overview

Job Description
  • Execution of daily check-in/out operational procedures
  • Reservation management and frontline client consultation
  • Fulfill instant guest needs and crisis management
Skills & Achievements
  • Cultivate instant problem-solving skills in high-pressure environments
  • Establish a mindset of cross-cultural communication and deep empathy
  • Develop acute observation skills for user emotions
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Turning Point

The hospitality industry gifted me with strong "empathy" and "human factors insight," but I realized my desire to create scalable systems. I began self-studying visual design and tech tools, transforming this passion for "experience" into the starting point of digital product design.

Graphic & Visual Designer

@In-well Ltd., Hong Kong
2022-2023

Overview

Job Description
  • Establish brand visual guidelines and high-conversion marketing assets
  • Execute cross-platform digital ads and product visual design
  • Integrate visual strategies to drive commercial sales performance
Skills & Achievements
  • Mastery in commercial visual communication and brand asset management
  • Translate marketing strategies precisely into concrete visual outputs
  • Lay a solid aesthetic foundation for future UI interface design
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Turning Point

This experience sharpened my aesthetic sensitivity, but pure visual presentation couldn't solve the fundamental pain points of "logic, interaction, and data flow" in products. To solve deeper business problems, I dove into frontend code and UI/UX architecture, officially advancing toward a Product Designer role.

Product Designer (Project Lead)

@Spotx Studio, Taipei
since 2023

Overview

Job Description
  • Lead 0 to 1 planning and design of complex B2B/SaaS systems
  • Build cross-platform design systems and implement DesignOps workflows
  • Communicate closely with engineering teams ensuring frontend tech alignment
Skills & Achievements
  • Independently delivered multiple high-complexity systems (medical, finance)
  • Leveraged a frontend mindset to dramatically cut dev costs and comms time
  • Established highly scalable architectures utilizing Semantic Tokens
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Highs & Challenges

As a strategic lead, my biggest advantage is "deconstructing products from both design and tech perspectives." I strive not just to deliver pretty mockups, but system-level solutions aligned with frontend logic, ensuring high engineering maintainability as the product scales commercially.

Media Project Lead

@TCOC, Taipei
since 2023

Overview

Job Description
  • Lead the team in large-scale brand redesigns and digital content production
  • Coordinate cross-departmental needs, streamlining workflows for design quality
  • Mentor team members technically and establish standardized collaboration guidelines
Skills & Achievements
  • Implemented project management systems, significantly boosting delivery rates
  • Optimized resource integration, successfully eliminating information gaps
  • Demonstrated cross-functional communication and conflict resolution
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Highs & Challenges

Transitioning from an executor to a manager, I learned how to build systematic guidelines to guide team output. By driving project tracking and resource transparency, we built a highly cohesive team. This deepened my practical understanding of Operations (Ops).

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