Hi, I'm Michelle Chiu.
Lead designer with experience at Coinbase, Meta Creative X, & MongoDB and startups such as ARI, Axiom, Daimo, Shibuya, etc. Fashion stylist featured on Medium, Rarible, Four Seasons, & Marie Claire Arabia.
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Recent highlights & more
2025 Mercury Spheres Selected Scholarship Attendee
2025 Emboldly NYC Events Manager
2025 EDGE NYFW Content Studio Manager
2024-2025 Girls Into VC Venture Fellow & Newsletter Editor
2020-2025 Mejuri Brand Ambassador
2024 Four Seasons Styling Assistant
2024-2025 Bureau Betak NYFW Stand-In Model
2024 Amber Rana's Backstage Intern
2024 Women Creatives Inaugural Dinner Guest
2022 NYFW Interior Backstage Intern
2022 Marie Claire Arabia Photography Assistant
2022 Rarible Editorial Content Freelance Writer
2021-2022 Kleiner Perkins Fellows Alumni Interviewer
2020-2022 Medium Top Writer in Design
2020 Bestfolios Editor's Pick Featured Site
2019 MongoDB Design Meetup Selected Speaker
2019 Adobe Design Achievement Awards Recipient
2019 Hexagon UX Mentorship Summer Cohort
2018 IDEO CoLab Makeathon Selected Participant
2017 Kleiner Perkins Engineering Fellow
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I enjoy
Meeting new friends, finishing my reading queue, playing tennis, and finding my next favorite restaurant
Select Writing (225k+ combined reads)
"Design fundamentals every creative should know"
“Redesigning components for an existing design system”
"How Olafur Eliasson uses art to address climate change"
"Hilma af Klint and Yayoi Kusama: Tapping spirituality..."
"Illuminating the Light and Space Movement"
"Why the Bauhaus lives on as the most influential school..."
"What we can learn from creative direction in fashion..."
"How Glossier tapped into customer empathy to build..."
"Charles and Ray Eames: The iconic couple of 20th..."
"Understanding Gary Hustwit’s 'Objectified' in 5 minutes"
"Tips on becoming a successful product design mentor"
"What I learned attending Figma Config, Awwwards..."
"Launching a blog post series to showcase our team"
"Portfolio presentations in product design"
"Traveling in Tokyo as a creative problem solver"
“How I left software engineering to become a designer”
"Takeaways from my first months as a designer at Meta"
"Reflecting on my first year as a product designer"
"Valuable lessons from my internship at Wish"
"What it's like to intern as a designer at BuzzFeed"
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