Portfolio ’26

Cynthia Shen

A Product Designer based in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Designing AI products end to end — from research and design systems to shipped, human interfaces.

AI

AI in practice

Running end-to-end AI production pipelines and backing design decisions with funnel data.

How I work with AI
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Reference-Driven Creation

A five-stage concept-to-delivery pipeline with model-per-shot-type selection across Midjourney, Kling, Runway, Seedance and Sora.

Dreamina (ByteDance) · Creative Partner
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Reproducible AI video

JSON-structured prompting — camera, light, material and rhythm as separate fields — that turns generative video from lucky one-offs into a stable production process.

Dreamina (ByteDance) · Creative Partner
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Component Doctor

A 2,222-line custom Figma plugin that automated the cleanup of a 19,020-node file — 423 component masters down to 27 canonical ones.

Friant & Associates · Lead AI Product Designer
Toolkit Midjourney · Veo 3 · Wan 2.2 · Kling · Runway · Dreamina / Seedance · Sora · JSON prompting · Claude Code · MCP · agent workflows DeepLearning.AI — Agent Skills with Anthropic, 2026

Lab & Studio

Visual playground

Posters, illustrations and visual experiments — expressing an idea by building the aesthetic logically.

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Years of design
across brand, UX and campaign work
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Faster flagship timelines
through agile workflows and automation
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Marketing production speed
after rebuilding a modular brand system