Staff Product Designer · New York

I’m Steven, a designer connecting people with their curiosity to explore.

I combine systems rigor, visual craft, front-end fluency, and a teacher’s perspective to shape accessible products that help people create, build skills, and access valuable services.

Open to select opportunities

Steven Chu smiling in a white shirt, custom overalls, and oxford dress shoes

ENTERPRISE PLATFORM · CONFIDENTIAL

Accessible institution-level theming for 1,000+ financial institutions on one shared platform

A shared banking platform needed to support the identities of more than 1,000 banks and credit unions without fragmenting into separate products.

Within a multidisciplinary product team, I architected institution-level theming logic in close partnership with design and engineering. The system translated each institution’s palette into accessible semantic roles while preserving one shared product foundation.

Public details limited by confidentiality.

BODYMAP · INDEPENDENT PRODUCT · AI-ASSISTED BUILD · 2026

A visual feedback tool for movement instructors

I independently designed and built BodyMap using AI-assisted development. This computer-vision web app helps movement instructors annotate student videos, organize coaching guidance, and share visual feedback students can revisit. I shipped the working beta in three weeks.

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A BodyMap pose-correction annotation over a kicking figure, with coaching callouts for "Point the big toe" and "engage and extend," and a before/after toggle.

BOSE · DESIGN SYSTEMS · 2024–2025

Eliminating 90 production defect overrides—and rebuilding the system behind Bose.com

Bose teams were working from a monolithic design library with 2,000+ components, recurring production defects, and inconsistent implementation logic.

I led remediation of the canonical components behind visible site issues, helping the team eliminate 90 defect overrides within three months. I then restructured the library architecture, modernized legacy components, and established clearer foundations, patterns, and governance.

A visual overview of Bose design-system foundations, components, patterns, and governance.

Services

User-Centered Design

End-to-end product research and iterative design process, going from 0-1 and 1-X, and solutions rooted in inclusivity and flexibility.

Front-End Development

10+ years developing fast, modular, responsive e-commerce and marketing websites. Shopify Accelerator & Shopify Expert certified.

Brand Growth Strategy

Drive growth, conversion, customer satisfaction and brand trust through data-driven testing.