Ryo Lu

Head of Design

San Francisco, California, United States12 yrs 7 mos experience
Highly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Led design for multiple high-impact products.
  • Expert in user-centered design and product strategy.
  • Proven track record in building successful design systems.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Fintech and SaaS product design expert with strong user experience capabilities.

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Skills

Core Skills

User Experience DesignProduct DesignBranding & IdentitySoftware Development

Other Skills

User Interface DesignSoftware PrototypingWeb DevelopmentWeb DesignPhotoshopSketchTypographyJavaScriptNode.jsCSSHTMLJavaPHPCPython

About

A toolmaker. https://ryo.lu

Experience

12 yrs 7 mos
Total Experience
1 yr 10 mos
Average Tenure
1 yr 3 mos
Current Experience

Cursor

Head of Design

Feb 2025Present · 1 yr 3 mos · San Francisco Bay Area · On-site

  • Crafting Cursor—the best AI tool to turn ideas into reality with code.
User Interface DesignUser Experience DesignProduct DesignSoftware Prototyping

Notion

Founding Designer, Product, Design Lead

Oct 2019Feb 2025 · 5 yrs 4 mos · San Francisco, CA, United States

  • An all-in-one tool for individuals and teams of any size. Now with AI.
User Interface DesignUser Experience DesignProduct Design

Stripe

Product Designer

Mar 2018Oct 2019 · 1 yr 7 mos · San Francisco, California

  • Founding designer on the new Stripe Checkout, Stripe Terminal, Stripe API references, and stripe.dev developer experiences.
User Interface DesignUser Experience DesignProduct Design

Asana

Product Designer

Nov 2016Mar 2018 · 1 yr 4 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

  • Led mobile projects, reimagined Notifications for cross-channel use. Integrated Asana with Slack, Outlook, and Gmail. Shaped Asana's two-year plan with the co-founder, boosting core navigation and usability.
User Interface DesignUser Experience DesignProduct Design

Ping++

Head of Design

Nov 2015Nov 2016 · 1 yr · Shanghai City, China

  • Ping++ is a top multi-channel payments startup in China. I lead a team of 4 designers and 1 front-end developer. I revamped our product marketing, brand strategy, and visual identity, and I redesigned and developed multiple sites including landing pages, products, support, and documentation. I also created a comprehensive design system with unified visuals, interaction patterns, Angular 2 UI components, and integrated it into our development tools. I spearheaded the design for Dashboard, Analytics, and Targeted Ads products.
User Interface DesignUser Experience DesignProduct DesignBranding & Identity

Pluto inc.

Head of Product and Design

Jan 2015Sep 2015 · 8 mos · China

  • Pluto reimagined the way language learners expand and reinforce their vocabulary through games. I lead our initial market and user research, worked on branding, product prototyping, interaction and visual design, and built iOS layouts.
User Interface DesignUser Experience DesignProduct Design

Ericsson

Software Developer

Aug 2013Apr 2014 · 8 mos · Montreal, Canada Area

  • I designed and built a live dashboard to visualize the health of network node equipments, perform on-demand live health checks, built on Node and Angular. I maintained and developed new features for an internal third-party contract management tool in C#. I improved information hierarchy and designs for an internal troubleshooting site and knowledge base.
User Interface DesignUser Experience DesignSoftware Development

Schedulingdirect

Design Co-Founder

May 2013Oct 2014 · 1 yr 5 mos · Montreal, Canada Area

  • SchedulingDirect provides apps for staff scheduling and attendance in retail. I was the sole designer for product, visuals and interactions. I lead product development, and implemented the UI and front-end features with the engineering team. I designed the company’s brand system, landing and on-boarding experience to effectively communicate our strengths, raise conversion and increase engagement.
User Interface DesignUser Experience DesignProduct Design

Autodesk

Software Developer

Jan 2013May 2013 · 4 mos · Montreal, Canada Area

  • Part of the Agile DevOps team for Project Pinocchio, now launched as Autodesk Character Generator, I worked on front-end development in HTML5 and C#. I designed and developed an admin site for the project, and a set of reusable components for data visualization using D3 and Backbone. I received cloud computing training on AWS, REST API design and Node.js development.
Software DevelopmentUser Interface Design

Macidea.com (subsidiary of shanghai visionsoar tech co. ltd)

Co-founder

Aug 2009Apr 2013 · 3 yrs 8 mos

  • I started, designed and developed one of the fastest-growing Apple online community in China, with over 400,000 registered users, 30,000 daily visitors and over million page views each month.
  • http://www.macidea.com
User Interface DesignSoftware Development

Education

McGill University

B. Sc — Computer Science and Biology

Jan 2010Jan 2014

Marianopolis College

DEC — Health Science

Jan 2008Jan 2010

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