Hi, I’m Yingying Zhang. I’m a Senior User Experience Designer at Amazon Web Services, where I design AI-native, cloud infrastructure and IoT platform experiences. Previously, I designed products spanning financial services, e-commerce, and recruiting.

I came to UX design from computer science. I’m comfortable going deep with engineers and coming back with something that actually works for users. What started as curiosity about “why is this so hard to use?” evolved into a career making complex technology feel intuitive.

Beyond my professional work, I actively experiment and build. I’ve been at it with AI tools since 2023. Recent experiments:

• Building a visual recognition iPhone app using Claude Code, under 6 hours – discovering users delight in AI “mistakes”, an insight I applied to designing error handling
• Programming a simple tic-tac-toe game on hardware using Claude, Arduino – gaining firsthand understanding of the constraints AWS IoT customers face

Interested in my work? Contact me for more details.

You can also find me here: LinkedIn • Sketchnotes • Blog • 微信公众号：涂生活