About

Hi! My name is David Zhao. I’m a product designer who has worked across consumer social and enterprise, data visualization and design tooling. I live in New York City with my laptop and a lovely assortment of houseplants.

Design appeals to me as an exercise in orienteering—of aesthetic and taste, incentive and behavior, scale and efficiency*—and for the present historical oddity as the territory looks to evolve faster than the knapsacks and compasses at our disposal.

*Why waste time ship wrong product when right design do trick?

Work
Autoflow (2019–)
Figma plugin for diagramming user flows, written in TypeScript/HTML/CSS. A collaboration with Yitong Zhang (2019–2020) turned solo project (2020–). As of April 2023, the #8 most installed Figma plugin worldwide.
Quora (2020–2023)
I worked on Monetization at Quora. I was closely involved in the launch of the company’s first subscriptions product, ran A/B tests, wrote React, iterated on the Quora ads manager, and hosted a weekly design team book club.
O/M (2019–2020)
O/M is a boutique digital product design studio based in San Francisco. With the support of the studio, I was fortunate to work as the founding designer on 0-to-1 projects with Google Area 120 and FLYR Labs.

Full portfolio available upon request. Email me Contact me: [this website name]@gmail.com

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