About
My name is Sydney Anh Mai and I am a product designer. If you don’t work in tech and wonder what that means, let’s just say I design human workflows on the web. My passion for workflow optimization, purposeful interactions, and stellar typography has taken me across industries and products — currently, Kickstarter. I believe that good designers understand the material of their design, be it paper, brick, or code.
I was a bored communication major when I took my first web design class — it changed my life. When I’m not building weird things in my free time, you can find me waddling at the beach, browsing videos of cats, Googling the capital of Kyrgyzstan , or resuscitating my many dying plants.
Experience
- Kickstarter
- Product designer, Creator Tools — current
- SelfMade
- Product designer — 2019-2020
- Abacus by Emburse
- Product designer — 2018-2019
- Havas
- Frontend developer freelancer — 2017
- Warner Music Group
- Web intern — 2016
Education
- New York University
- 2013-2017
- B.S.
- Communication & Web Development
Awards
- Indigo design awards
- 2020
- Silver
- UX, Interface & Navigation
- Silver
- Digital Tools and Utilities
- dotCOMM awards
- 2020
- Gold
- Website/Small Business
Publications
- TECHCRUNCH
- Hacking my way into analytics
- CORE 77
- The UX of invisibility
- DESIGN WEEK
- More science than art