Hi, I’m Michelle Chiu

Lead designer with 7+ years of experience at Coinbase, Meta Creative X, MongoDB, and high-growth startups such as Axiom, BuzzFeed, Cherry Pick, Daimo, Wish, etc. My work has impacted ~3B+ users globally and contributed to ~$50M+ in funding and revenue across B2B, consumer, crypto/web3, and fashion-tech.

Clients/Experience:
Authoritative, Alta, ARI, Axiom, Beam, BuzzFeed, Cherry Pick, Coinbase, Daimo, DoorDash, Easy Labs, Frog Design, Instagram, Kodely, Megapot, Meta Creative X, MongoDB, Peanie, Pistachio, Prism, Rubi, Shibuya, Wish

Awards & Recognition:
Adobe Design Achievement Awards Recipient
Bestfolios Editor’s Pick Featured Site
Design Nation Conference Selected Attendee
Facebook GH Scholarship Recipient (1 of 25 worldwide)
Hexagon UX Mentorship Program Selected Participant
IDEO CoLab Makeathon Selected Participant
Kleiner Perkins Engineering Fellow
Medium Top Writer in Design (225K+ views)
Mercury Spheres Scholarship Recipient
Rarible Editorial Writer (front-page feature)
Unsplash Featured Photographer (3.5M+ views)

Other Highlights:
Bureau Betak Stand-In Model (2x)
EDGE NYFW Content Studio Manager
Emboldly NYC (Nonprofit) Events Manager
Four Seasons Styling Assistant
Girls Into VC Venture Fellow & Former Newsletter Editor
Interior NYFW Intern
Kleiner Perkins Fellows Program Alumni Interviewer (2x)
Marie Claire Arabia Photography Assistant
Mejuri Brand Ambassador
Slow Ventures Design & AI Dinner Invited Guest

Native mobile app that enables users to send and receive USDC worldwide on their own private keys. Investors include Vitalik Buterin (co-founder of Ethereum), Dan Romero (co-founder of Farcaster), and early operators at Coinbase, Ethereum Foundation, Optimism, etc.

I led 0-1 branding, design systems, logo conceptualization, product design, and UX strategy to raise $2.5M+ in a seed round. I also defined UX direction, color palettes, typography styles, and new components across mobile & web for cryptographic personal banking on our app.

Today, Daimo has now pivoted to a SDK for instant transactions from any coin, any chain, any wallet used by teams at Blockscout, Consensys, Ethereum Foundation, ZKP2P, Worldcoin, etc.

AI Tools
Branding
Creative Direction
Design Systems
Illustration
Interaction Design
Marketing
Mobile Design
Motion Design
Product Design
Web Design
Visual Design