karinasu.comKarina Su
Senior Product Designer · Design Technologist
I make complex products feel simple. Strong visual design and AI-powered building, from data mapping to coded prototypes, across fintech, enterprise and AI.
Experience
Solayer Labs · Fintech
Nov 2025 – Present · Palo Alto, CA
Founding Designer, with 1 PM and 4 engineers
- Took Solayer Pay from 0→1: design system, onboarding and card management, scaling to 1M+ users in 7 countries.
- Designed the Margin Trade terminal end to end, with data-dense dashboards driving $1M+ daily volume across 14+ countries; then its mobile Simple mode, +15% trading volume in three months.
- Designed and built Solayer AI Pay, a voice payment agent, prototyped and shipped with Claude and Vercel.
- Ran design reviews and workshops before every handoff, building a culture of fast iteration with engineering and product.
Mercor · AI
Aug – Nov 2025 · Remote
UX Designer
- Raised AI evaluation accuracy 40% and review efficiency 30% by defining benchmark dashboards and UI standards.
- Turned evaluation insights into model feedback that sharpened the visual and structural precision of AI-generated UI.
Microsoft · UC Santa Cruz capstone
Apr – Dec 2024 · Santa Clara, CA
UX Designer, Word AI Co-Agent
- Reached 90% NPS for Word’s AI Co-Agent by turning document summarization into clear visual metrics.
- Led journey mapping and turned research into high-fidelity prototypes with engineering.
Binance · Crypto
Jun 2021 – Mar 2022 · Remote
UX Designer
- Tripled risk analysts’ efficiency, from 3 to 9 cases a day, by replacing a table-based fraud tool with interactive data visualization.
Freelance · Jobscan, MEXC, Gate.io
Apr 2022 – Sep 2023 · Remote
UX Designer
- Grew subscriber acquisition 15% for Jobscan’s 1M+ users; shipped wallet dashboards and component libraries for MEXC and Gate.io.
Government of Singapore
Sep 2019 – Jun 2021 · Singapore
UX Designer
- Redesigned pension services for 4M citizens, restructuring the information architecture to WCAG accessibility standards.
Skills
Product design & systems
Product strategy, design systems, information architecture, data visualization, visual and motion design
AI, prototyping & code
Claude, Cursor, v0, Vercel, Figma, Framer, HTML/CSS
Education
MS, Human-Computer InteractionUC Santa Cruz, CA, USA
MSc, Integrated Product DesignBrunel University, London, UK
BA, Information ManagementYuan Ze University, Taipei, Taiwan
Case studies, prototypes and motion work at karinasu.comKarina Su · 2026