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Tony Lu

TONY.YIHONG.LU@GMAIL.COM  |  WWW.TONYYIHONGLU.COM

PRODUCT DESIGNER — NEW YORK, NY

WORK EXPERIENCE

Asana — Product Designer

MAY 2024 – PRESENT | NEW YORK, NY

  • Designed Asana Meetings from zero to General Access, turning meeting transcripts into summaries and actionable tasks
  • 0→1 design of a new interactive tree-based view connecting strategic goals to the work underneath for executives, team leads, and project managers
  • Increased adoption of Asana's out-of-office feature 3x through design and rollout improvements

Persona — Product Designer

JAN 2023 – DEC 2023 · INTERNSHIP | SAN FRANCISCO, CA

  • Owned the end-to-end design of Workflow Modules, a new component system enabling users to turn sections of workflows into reusable building blocks
  • Championed the design of Translations Manager for the flow-builder, bringing self-service translation management directly into the product

Splunk — Product Designer

MAY 2022 – AUG 2022 · INTERNSHIP | SAN FRANCISCO, CA

  • Spearheaded the design of an activity feed for Mission Control, a security incident management platform, giving analysts a centralized view of incident updates
  • Built Mission Control's first shared design kit, turning ad-hoc screens into a library of reusable components adopted across the design team

RemitBee — UX Designer

SEP 2021 – DEC 2021 · INTERNSHIP | TORONTO, ON

  • Designed the end-to-end mobile web experience, adapting core workflows for seamless use on small screens
  • Defined RemitBee's design system for the mobile experience, shipping a component library that standardized the client portal

TD Lab — UX Designer

JAN 2021 – APR 2021 · INTERNSHIP | WATERLOO, ON

  • Designed the end-to-end experience for a student-focused grocery shopping app, simplifying how users discover, plan, and purchase groceries

Product Design Mentor, Freelance

APR 2020 – PRESENT

  • Mentored 20+ students through a self-created 16-week curriculum, helping them build their first UX portfolios

EDUCATION

University of Waterloo

Bachelor of Applied Science, Systems Design Engineering

SEP 2020 – MAY 2025

AWARDS

CredElection, Adobe Jam — 3rd of 156

New York Times competition finalist; presented to judges for a mobile app designed in 7 days to flag election misinformation

SEP 2021

UpBudget, TILE Designathon — 4th place

Mobile app designed in 24 hours that merges budgeting and automated micro-investments

MAY 2021

SKILLS

Design: Design Systems, Prototyping, UX Research, Product Strategy, Storytelling, Data-Informed Design, AI/LLM Product Design, Information Architecture, Usability Testing, Visual Design, Interaction Design, Accessibility

Tools: Figma, Claude, Cursor, Sketch, InVision, Zeplin, Adobe Illustrator, After Effects, Dovetail, Loom, Jira, Linear, Asana

Technical: HTML/CSS, JavaScript/TypeScript, C++, Java, Python