Malik Zhang

Product Designer

Open-source macOS tool, designed and built end to end: point at one UI element in any app and hand a coding agent structured data about it instead of a screenshot. Signed, notarized, and shipped with its own launch site and three-minute film.

• Designed the whole surface, from a double-tap Control gesture and hover overlay to a five-rung fallback ladder that names which rung it reached instead of failing silently, so the tool stays honest about its own confidence
• Scoped it to exactly two system permissions, Accessibility and Screen Recording, with no third prompt, no account, and no telemetry, and wrote the disclosure so a user reading the prompt can tell what never leaves the machine
• Built the integration as an MCP server verified end to end with Codex CLI, Claude Code, and Cursor, and published a compatibility matrix stating what is verified and what is untested
• Went from nothing to a working version in three hours and has shipped through v0.9.2, then ran a 40-run paired test against the screenshot workflow it replaced: the agent changed the wrong checkout's code in 14 of 20 runs with a screenshot and 0 of 20 with Locant, and reached the right file in a median 39s instead of 80s at about half the cost, after a first round found Locant short and one added sentence fixed it

Product Designer

Two AI-native iOS apps designed, built, and shipped end to end, an inspiration-capture tool and a planning tool, from concept through App Store review and the iteration that followed.

• Designed Oryne around one decision about feel, that capturing a thought should take less time than having it, and cut everything standing between the impulse and the record
• Owned flows, interactions, and visual design end to end, from interaction model to high-fidelity screens, motion, and gesture, and on to production SwiftUI
• Designed the AI features so on-device intelligence behaves predictably and the user can always tell what it did, treating the feel of an AI feature as a design decision rather than a model output

Product Designer · FigBuild 2026 · 1st Place of 690 Teams · $10K Grand Prize

Four-day build of a decision system turning a live helmet sensor stream into guidance for sideline medical staff.

• Structured the stream into three progressive views readable within seconds by someone making a consequential call under pressure, on a reusable set of visual signals and states
• Designed the protocol as five explicit states and decided which were advisory and which the system enforces, making removal non-overridable so a critical alert could not be dismissed in the moment
• Presented the reasoning and the trade-offs behind each state to judges and cross-functional teammates

Product Designer

Zero-to-one internal system for a graduate program, designed and launched end to end, that the program now runs its equipment operations on.

• Designed role-based access for administrators, members, and read-only users, and modeled the request and return workflow as explicit states with approvals and shift handoffs
• Built the admin surface around a dense filterable table with bulk actions, then ran it as its administrator as well as its designer, so every edge case I had not designed for came back to me

Product Designer

• Two open-source products built end to end, each with its own visual language and launch site: Inkwork, a styled QR code generator in React, TypeScript, and Vite, redesigned from an AI-generated first draft into a product with a point of view; and CalmMouse, a Swift macOS utility built with Claude Code

Technology and Equipment Manager

• Ran the program's equipment operations and designed and launched the system above to run them

UX Designer Intern

• Contributed interaction design for retail and service experiences, working with cross-functional product and engineering partners

Product Designer Intern

• Designed form and interaction for monitoring instruments, translating technical constraints into usable product concepts

MHCI+D in Human Computer Interaction + Design

B.E. in Industrial Design