It's me, Mel!

I'd love to talk to y'all. Feel free to send me an email at yobochua@gmail.com

Open to contract and full-time product design roles. Based in San Francisco, happy to work remote.

I'm a product designer who leads with craft. At a global biopharma company, I design product and set the art direction for a digital health app: I wrote the illustration standard, scaled it from just me to a team of three, and set the motion patterns other designers copy into their own files.

Before that, I was the only product designer at Hidden Door, an AI storytelling game, and at CanWe, a dating app, where I designed and shipped the features in my case studies. I started at Brain Racers, an edtech and gaming startup, building its style guide and the illustrations in its investor materials.

Underneath all of it is thirty years of art: a BFA from UC Santa Cruz, an experimental MFA in Trondheim, Norway, and a year-long tattoo apprenticeship. I do my best work with researchers, engineers and other designers, and I'm looking for a team that wants all of that in one person.