About

Howdy! I'm Ray Yuen, a designer based in San Francisco.

I've worked at startups like NextLesson, medium‑sized enterprises like Quantcast, and industry leaders like The Pokemon Company International where I've successfully launched products and design systems and run design teams.

Now

Starting a job at Salesforce!!
Building an Etsy biz with AI generated art.
Learning conversational Cantonese.
Tinkering with 11ty for building simple websites.
Growing lemon trees and propagating monstera plants.

Updated: July 2024

Past

Participated in Inktober!
Illustrated 2 children's books, Tiger Tiger and Monkey Mo.
Drew caricatures at Six Flags Great Adventure.
Made Darth Pickle, where I host code projects
Studied Graphic Design at Rochester Institute of Technology.
Grew up in NJ, lived in Rochester and Brooklyn.
Can solve a Rubik's Cube >1m.
Pandemic hobby: sewing DOPP pouches.

Things Making Me Happy

black cats

French 79

FromSoft

One Piece Netflix

Figma

Vespas

Polite Society

Hawaiian shirts

Eleventy

Evergoods

italian subs

Dave the Diver

Balatro

Midjourney

Procreate

Mob Psycho 100

agave plants

We are Lady Parts

Synology

Obsidian MD

rogue-like games

neon signs

wimmelbooks

noodles

Connections