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title: "About"
url: https://sydbydesign.com/about/
description: "Sydney Anh Mai is a product designer in Brooklyn, New York. Experience, education, awards and publications."
published: 2026-08-13
updated: 2026-08-13
---

# About

Published 2026-08-13

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](https://techcrunch.com/2021/04/29/hacking-my-way-into-analytics-a-creatives-journey-to-design-with-data/)

**CORE 77**: [The UX of invisibility](https://www.core77.com/posts/104567/The-UX-of-Invisibility)

**DESIGN WEEK**: [More science than art](https://www.designweek.co.uk/issues/30-november-6-december-2020/more-science-than-art-exploring-ux-design-practice/)