UX Designer · Prompt Engineer · San Francisco Bay Area

Engineered mind.

Artist eye.

A decade of experience designing technical applications — with real skills in HTML, SCSS, React, Vue etc. Now accelerated by AI. Faster builds, happier customers .

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Mimicry is easy.

It takes craft

to invoke beauty .

About

Ex-Architect
Working in Tech

Hi, I'm Alvin, a designer obsessed with structure, beauty, and function. After pivoting from architecture to UX 10+ years ago, I've specialized in designing complex SaaS workflows and big data systems from the ground up. Using my coding literacy to prompt full-stack applications, I move instantly from abstract concept to functional reality. I love collaborating with executives and engineers to quickly ship responsive, system-driven products.

0Years in UX & Engineering
0Apps live on the App Store
0Years in Architecture

Driven by curiosity & passion for making things.

Selected work

Designed & built

Products that I have worked on through the years. Some simple websites, others intricate workflows. Scope of work includes branding, marketing, UX work and some engineering. The first two are end-to-end.

Side Table

Ashlar Lane

Sequitur

Nebulon

Kilo

Qadium

2026 Branding, designed, built

South Berkeley coffee & tea — brand identity, marketing site, and Square-integrated email capture for pre-opening updates.

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App Store

Shipped to iOS

Two apps I designed, built, and deployed — live on the Apple App Store.

Fruithood — in review

Designed and developed end-to-end — from interaction design to App Store submission.

Kin & Tot — in review

Native iOS experience — UX, UI, and production code in my own stack.

How I work

Research

Stakeholders, users, and business goals

Planning

Systems, flows, and high-fidelity UI

Iterate

Hands-on code + prompt engineering — React, Swift, GSAP

Ship & Measure

Deploy, measure, iterate in production

Full-Cycle

Toolkit

Design

I shape visual systems in Figma and Sketch, refine flows through prototyping, ship HTML, SCSS, and React interfaces, choreograph scroll and animation with GSAP, build native iOS apps in Swift, wire Node.js and Ruby services, and extend the workflow with prompt engineering, Cursor, and Claude.

Background

SCI-Arc · Architecture thesis award · Nebulon · Principal Designer · Kilo · Principal Product Designer · Expanse · Cybersecurity SaaS · Arcadia · Big-data design engineer · Dev Bootcamp · Full-stack · pre-AI · SCI-Arc · Architecture thesis award ·

Engineered mind. Artist eye.