Design
to envision,
meet desires
& bring fun

Previously at...
Google
Facebook (Meta)
Brex
SmartNews

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PAST
WORKS

SmartNews 2.0
Feed, social & Community

No more a boring news-delivery-only app. Fast know what happened to the world when you're away. Also, connect people through news and opinion and reaction discussion.

SmartNews
Sports Live & News

A easy-to-access live news feature for sports fans to be kept updates of their teams. 178% increase on DAU, yet 25% cost reduce. (baseball, soccer, basketball to start)

Facebook (Meta)
Split Payment

Connect people with payments. Split bills and pay between your friends easily on Messenger, WhatsApp and other chat services. 5M new users in 1st week.

Brex
Empower & 2B onboarding

AI-powered automative and efficient experience of finiancial setup & management for mid-size companies. I led design budget, accounting, team (HRIS) and onboarding experience.
Demoed and eventually signed Coinbase and Doordash.

Google
Play Pass

A subscription service allowing users to use certain paid apps with a $5 monthly fee. Design feed and recommendation logic; Launched it to NA

NAVI

The E-sports fashion and perk startup led design by me. Designed and produce limited collebration perks from 0 to delivery, well communicating with factories. Revenue hits 100k USD in 2 weeks.

EDG x FNC
E-sports World Champion collection

The E-sports fashion and perk startup led design by me. Designed and produce limited collebration perks from 0 to delivery, well communicating with factories. Revenue hits 130k USD in 2 weeks.

oTHER
PROJECTS

Walk

An interactive, strongly self-motivating mobile pedometer application featured a hyper-localized online monster-chase game.

Omni

AR-based smart virtual assistant after the user's own heart. It learns to understand the user's true desires based on the user's virtual data.

Arboretum Go

With this, vistors will enjoy a more interactive, convinient and exciting experience in Washington Arboretum, even beyond the time limit

Taunt

It is an interactive E-sports streaming application that allows fans to challenge other audiences while watching live matchs

Google Co
College Tool

An innovative design challenge I did but cannot be published due to the restrictions

ThoughtID

Think, then unlock!
A concept for a new way to authenticate by neuroimaging detecting, for both higher efficiency and trust of the users.

Visual Designs

Selected visual/graphic designs (posters, prints, logos etc.) of mine with creative and clean concepts.

Photography

I love photography. It always calms my mind and inspires me with the remarkable moments during the fast-pased life.

MY VISION
& INSIGHTS

Discover humans' true desires
Think & design psychologically
Apply attractive product strategies
Bring intuitive UX

Ola!
I'm Michael Ji, a product designer. I worked at SmartNews, Brex, Facebook (Meta now) and Google before.
I think and design beyond the existing rules. Besides, I always devote myself to building stronger teams and mentoring others as I believe those are keys of success.
I've also been interested in driving, dining and photographing all for all those perfect moments.