Hop
Log inJoin Hop
Calvin ZhengCZ

Calvin Zheng

Founding mentor
馃尡 First session

Senior Product Designer @ My own design studio

Vancouver 6 yrs in design

About

I've reviewed dozens of designer portfolios over the past 8 years, as well as helped designers prep for their technical interviews. My past mentees have landed roles at Amazon, Meta, Google, Microsoft, so my advice should work for you regardless of where you're applying.

How I can help

I can help you best represent yourself and your work on your portfolio, as well as during the interview.

Ask me about

Pivot into design
Freelance to full-time
Returning from a break
Agency to in-house
Layoffs
First or only designer
A reorg
Influence without authority
Stakeholder standoffs
Presenting to execs
Imposter syndrome
Building a design system
First design hires
Craft to strategy
Growing into leadership

Expertise

Design Lead
Interviewing
Freelancing
Fintech
AI workflows
Design systems
Agentic AI
AI/ML
Agency
AI tools
Product Designer
UX Designer
UX Researcher
Portfolio

Experience

  1. Founder/designer 路 yxz.design

    2022 - present

    Work with founders to figure out what problem they should be solving, and conveniently present to them the solution as well.

  2. Senior Product Designer 路 Fortress Power

    2024 - 2026

    Consolidated 6 apps into 3 and reduced the time needed for installations from 30 minutes to 5.

  3. Founding Product Designer 路 HMBradley

    2018-2023

    Designed everything.

  4. Design Intern 路 Microsoft

    Summer 2019

    Motion design guidelines for Microsoft 365.

  5. Product Designer 路 HVF Labs

    2018-2019

    Spent a year at Max Levchin's incubator, searching for hard, valuable, and fun problems to solve. Contributed to the launch of one company.