Open to AI product manager roles
Hi, I’m Joe,Senior Product Designer,moving into AI PM.
I turn AI into products,and bring it into teams.
13 years in product design at D-Link. I pushed AI tools on my design team twice and learned what it takes for people to actually use them. Lately I’ve built a voice AI app and a few AI workflow tools.
How I judge an AI feature
Four questions
Before building anything with AI, I ask these four. Each comes with something I actually did, and where to read about it.
- 01
Who is it for, and what does it fix?
Only worth AI if it hurts and happens often. Pick the people and the problem before the tool.
What I didTwo failed rollouts →I pushed AI tools on my design team twice and nobody changed how they worked. I'd skipped all three: no person, no problem, no number.
- 02
What happens when the AI gets it wrong?
Decide up front where a mistake gets caught, and put a person at that checkpoint.
What I didRésumé workflow →My résumé workflow: the AI lists its edits and stops until I approve. Testing a free model, it invented experience I don't have. That checkpoint caught it.
- 03
Quality, speed or cost: which comes first?
The use case decides, not the leaderboard. Then write down what “good” means so it can be tested.
What I didPace tone spec →Pace, a voice app: I picked a small open model that replies in 1.3s over a larger one that wrote better but took 12.8s, and wrote the tone as a spec checked by 32 test cases.
- 04
How will we know it worked?
Decide what to measure before launch, or all you have afterwards is a feeling.
What I didWhat I measured →My résumé workflow: before building it, I picked two numbers, time per application and mistakes. One application went from about two hours to a fifteen-minute conversation, and the first run caught one mistake repeated 45 times across 18 old résumés.
How I work
How I make calls
Before the products I’ve made: bringing AI into a team. What I got wrong twice, the use case I missed, and what I measure first now.
Selected work
Four shipped projects
Side projects
All live. Go press them
ReshiTrip
Photograph a Japanese receipt; it reads the amounts and files the expense.
Vision API · Web
Pace
A voice health journal with no scores. Say one sentence and it's logged.
Voice · Figma · React
LunchLuck
A spinner that settles the daily what's-for-lunch argument.
Web · Motion
Not Walking Alone
A graduation song for my design bootcamp. I wrote the lyrics, Suno did the music, and the page follows the lyrics line by line.
Suno · Web · Audio sync
All built the same way:IdeaFigmaClaude CodeVisual reviewShipThe design file and the live product stay the same thing.
- Years in product design
- 13+
- Fewer UI errors (est.)
- 70%
- Faster design delivery
- 30%
25 years in design, 13 in product
I started in advertising, then graphic design and photography, and moved into product design. So I care whether a screen reads well as much as whether it works.
At D-Link I worked on smart home and IoT products, built a design system shared by four shipped products, and started using AI to go from Figma straight to production. Before that: Armorize Technologies, and agency work back to OgilvyOne in 2001.
- AI product strategy
- Requirements & prioritisation
- AI workflow adoption
- Prototype to launch
- User research
- B2B & IoT
- Design systems
- Claude Code · n8n
Kind words
From LinkedIn
Written by former managers and teammates on LinkedIn.
Joe meets his deadlines, produces quality work and is a pleasure to have as a part of any team or project.
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Joe is a wonderful designer and a great guy.
I had the pleasure of working with Joe over the course of nearly four years. Joe is professional, hard working, and very capable. Joe was constantly improving his skills and evolving his personal style throughout the entire time we worked together and it showed high quality of his work.
Joe meets his deadlines, produces quality work and is a pleasure to have as a part of any team or project.
A passionate, professional and hard-working designer who can precisely turn product owners' imaginations into vivid visualizations.
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I'm very pleased to recommend Joe Chen because he is a passionate, professional and hard-working designer who can precisely turn product owners' imaginations into vivid visualizations. For several years working in a fast-paced industry, Joe has demonstrated his abilities that handle challenging tasks reliably and deliver high quality outputs constantly. And his easy-going character provides a great balance to the team. I enjoy working with Joe and looking forward to having chances to work together again.
His skills as a graphic designer, his attention to detail, and his willingness to work long and hard towards the best-possible end-product were key in building up the company's sales and marketing portfolio.
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From 2007 to 2010, I was responsible for all website content, corporate marketing materials and product literature at Armorize Technologies. In this capacity I worked closely with Joe Chen.
As senior visual designer, Joe was a principal member of the marketing team. His skills as a graphic designer, his attention to detail, and his willingness to work long and hard towards the best-possible end-product were key in building up the company's sales and marketing portfolio.
Joe is a consummate team player. I would welcome the opportunity to work with him again and would have no hesitation in recommending him to future employers.
Joe is a talented, self-motivated, and detail-oriented GUI visual designer.
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Joe is a talented, self-motivated, and detail-oriented GUI visual designer, who utilizes any technology and communication skills he can to accomplish the everyday's work. He's also very concentrated at work while he has multiple capabilities. It's been a great pleasure to work with Joe, as much as with his honesty and kindness.
