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

Survived Dreamforce!
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

FromSoft

Connections

Evergoods

Synology

Eleventy

Midjourney

Polite Society

noodles

black cats

neon signs

wimmelbooks

Balatro

Figma

Mob Psycho 100

Procreate

Vespas

agave plants

rogue-like games

italian subs

Pokemon Emerald Rogue

French 79

We are Lady Parts

Hawaiian shirts

Obsidian MD