
LILLIANLINYANG
Los Angeles based UX Designer | Los Angeles Product Design Founder | Thechefcharette founder
FEATURED WORK

PRODUCT DESIGN
IN LA
2020 - Present
Experience
Oct 2022
Launched Los Angeles Product Design to bring community I embraced from the east side to the west side.
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May 2020
Road tripped from NYC to LA within 3 days, designed @ Thrive Market, then Flex.

UX/UI DESIGN
IN NYC
2017 - 2020
Oct 2018
Designed @ Dialogue Theory, then Baldor Specialty Foods.
Apr 2018
Enrolled into NYCDA’s UXDI Program after realizing my passion is to design digital experiences over spatial experiences.

INTERIORS
IN TOKYO
2014 - 2016
Moved to Tokyo to hone design skills, design Itoya's rooftop cafe and Apple's R&D Center for Jun Mitsui and Associates inc. Architects.
BLOGGING
IN TOKYO
2015 - 2016
Frustrated with language barriers, launched my blog: The Chef Charette and spent weekends experimenting, drawing, and diagramming recipes for a growing audience to understand.

ARCHITECTURE
IN LOS ANGELES
2009 - 2014
Attended USC’s School of Architecture to make parents proud of blending art and math, but almost died from allnighters.
PRESS SPEAKING

BROOKLYN PRODUCT DESIGN
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June 2019
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Featured as a lightning talk speaker for June 2019 and discussed the value of diagramming and benefits of some best practices. Watch Designing Better Instructions to Build Better Products.
FLATIRON SCHOOL
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July 2020
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Featured as a speaker to discuss my life as a design professional, process of finding a job as a bootcamp. grad, and the path to where I have been now.
USC PECHA KUCHA NIGHT
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March 2017
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As one of the 20 selected USC Architecture alumni to participate in USC School of Architecture’s 2017 Pecha Kucha presentation, a Japanese-style presentation with 20 slides for 20 seconds each, I presented how I used my architecture skills to launch my blog, The Chef Charette.
With the slides set at 20 second intervals, I shared how my architecture diagrams and living abroad motivated me to diagram recipes with AutoCAD to create recipes easily and universally understood by everyone. Watch the full presentation here, and my pecha kucha presentation from 1:36.
USC SAWA
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Feb 2021
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Paired with a USC alumni to guide USC Architecture "SAWA" students in my pathway from architecture, food blogger, and UX designer.
CONTACT
Want to collaborate, work together, or simply chat about cool ideas?
Contact me!
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