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David Ye is a lead product designer who builds complex products.

9+ years of end-to-end experience across enterprise healthcare, federal government, consumer mobile, and AI-powered products. I specialize in simplifying complex systems used by millions.

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David Ye, Lead Product Designer
#1 Ranked ordering platform, beating long-standing competitors for the first time
4.8★ Customer satisfaction sustained across 6 consecutive quarters (up from 3.8)
3.4M+ Users across 400+ federal agencies on NBIS / Trusted Workforce 2.0
$160M Acquisition value of Citybase; the product drove $9M in first-year revenue

Selected Work

Case Studies

End-to-end product design across enterprise healthcare, government, consumer, and AI-powered products.

VIME was a 0-to-1 AI accessibility product for Estée Lauder Companies. I designed voice-guided flows that allow vision-impaired users to independently identify and evaluate cosmetic products, something participants said they had never been able to do before. I owned the full design from concept through a TestFlight pilot with 9 participants.

Key insight

Users wanted independence, not assistance; the design had to feel empowering, not assistive or remedial

Role

Sole Product Designer covering concept, research, interaction design, prototyping, and pilot validation

Methods

Accessibility research, VoiceOver testing, non-visual guidance design, TestFlight pilot with 9 participants

I led a senior design pod at Walgreens spanning 5 lines of business, building design-ops frameworks and async collaboration processes for a distributed, cross-border team. I established shared component libraries, design review rituals, and cross-team standards that improved design consistency and reduced cycle time across the organization.

Pod structure

1 lead + 3 designers spanning 5 lines of business across distributed, cross-border teams

Approach

Established async design review processes, shared component libraries, and cross-team design rituals

Outcome

Reduced design cycle time and improved consistency across 5 lines of business

Trusted Workforce 2.0 is the U.S. federal government's most significant personnel vetting modernization in decades. I owned the UX for Continuous Vetting and adjudication workflows end-to-end, spanning 9 scrum teams, 400+ agencies, and 3.4M+ users. I also owned the design system and 508-compliance patterns, and created designer↔developer mapping documentation to prevent implementation drift at scale.

Impact

3.4M+ users across 400+ federal agencies, representing the largest U.S. personnel vetting modernization in decades

Role

Senior UX Designer who owned CV and adjudication UX, the design system, and 508 compliance across 9 scrum teams

Methods

Agency workshops with 70+ federal SMEs, contextual research, 508-compliance patterns, designer↔developer mapping

About

How I work

I'm a lead product designer with 9+ years building digital products that span enterprise platforms, government systems, consumer apps, and AI-powered experiences. I focus on turning complex, ambiguous problems into intuitive, scalable products, and I stay through implementation to make sure the design holds.

My work has contributed to a #1 platform ranking, 4.8-star satisfaction sustained across six quarters, a government-wide vetting modernization used by 3.4M people, and a 0-to-1 AI accessibility product that empowered vision-impaired users to do something independently for the first time.

Core strengths

  • AI-powered and voice-first interaction design
  • Accessibility-first UX (WCAG, VoiceOver, non-visual guidance)
  • Design systems architecture and scalable components
  • Complex workflow simplification at enterprise scale
  • End-to-end product design from discovery through implementation
  • Design leadership across cross-functional, cross-border teams

Currently

Lead UX Designer @ EPAM Systems

Select engagements: Novartis, Estée Lauder, Walgreens

Education

Purdue University

B.Sc. Computer Graphics Technology: UX Design

Contact

davidye0250@gmail.com

847-682-0250

davidye.design ↗

Experience

Career History

2022 to Present

EPAM Systems

Lead UX Designer

Select Engagements

End-to-end product design across enterprise healthcare, consumer mobile, and AI-powered accessibility products.

  • Novartis (ROME): Led redesign from 3.8 to 4.8★ satisfaction, achieving #1 competitive ranking with 19% preference lead. Governed design across 5 designers, 3 platforms, 4 design systems.
  • Estée Lauder (VIME): Designed voice-first AI mobile experience for vision-impaired users from concept through TestFlight pilot with 9 participants.
  • Walgreens: Led senior design pod across 5 lines of business, establishing async cross-border ways of working and design-ops frameworks.

2019 to 2022

Fjord

Now Accenture Song

National Background Investigation Services

Owned adjudication UX and led Continuous Vetting design for Trusted Workforce 2.0.

  • Led UX for CV and adjudication workflows end-to-end for 3.4M+ users across 400+ agencies and 9 scrum teams.
  • Owned design system and 508-compliance patterns. Created designer↔developer mapping documentation to prevent drift at scale.
  • Partnered with 70+ federal directors and SMEs across agency workshops and contextual research sessions.

2016 to 2019

Early Career

UX Design

Select Projects

  • Citybase: Redesigned low-literacy public payment kiosk with an 80% reduction in task time across a 12-participant usability study. Drove $9M first-year revenue; company acquired for $160M.
  • Ford × Purdue: Led research team optimizing Ford training and software integration; synthesized findings presented to leadership (NDA).

Contact

Let's talk.

Open to full-time product design opportunities, particularly senior and lead roles where design drives measurable business and user outcomes.

davidye0250@gmail.com ↗ davidye.design ↗ 847-682-0250 ↗