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Brooklyn, NY

Sarah Chen.

Product Designer

Currently — Senior Product Designer at Tessera
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Product designer drawing the lines between craft and shipping. I care about how interfaces feel under your hands — the friction, the timing, the small reassurances. Currently designing core editor surfaces at Tessera.

Senior Product DesignerTessera
2023 — Present
Remote
  • Lead designer for the editor and document surfaces — the writing experience most Tessera users touch every day.
  • Shipped the new inline AI affordance, the slash-command rebuild, and the cycle-review template framework.
  • Coach two ICs on visual craft; run the internal design crit forum.
Product DesignerForeshore
2020 — 2023
San Francisco, CA
  • Designed the whiteboard tool's voting, timer, and audio-call features from zero to GA.
  • Owned the auto-layout v2 redesign — adopted by 90% of teams within six months.
Product Designer, DashboardTidemark Pay
2018 — 2020
San Francisco, CA
  • Redesigned the payments-volume analytics surface — primary entrypoint for the merchant dashboard.
  • Built the company's first design-tokens pipeline, picked up cross-team after launch.
Interaction designDesign systemsPrototypingEditorial layoutTypographyFront-end (HTML/CSS, light React)Brand identity
Wessex College of Art and Design
2014 — 2018
BFA, Graphic Design
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