Open to opportunities

Keyan Huang designs for clarity and confidence in complex experiences

I’m a curious product designer who untangles messy, ambiguous problems to uncover what’s really happening beneath the surface. I connect the dots and turn complexity into intuitive, engaging experiences that feel deeply human.

Selected Projects

Designing a Dashboard
for Action and Analysis

Redesigned a legacy data table into a dashboard that connects actionable work with meaningful analytics.

Performance Discussion Form interface preview

Re-architecting the End‑to‑End
Personal Action Workflow

Rebuilt the system behind hundreds of thousands of decisions that shape employees’ careers.

PAF Redesign interface preview

Additional Projects

Dashboard Customization
Testing Study

Compared two ways to customize a dashboard, with 15 participants helping shape the final direction.

Dashboard Customization Testing Study interface preview

Hackathon Toyota Challenge Winner - EggV

Designed and delivered within 24 hours to empower EV owners with energy insights and gamified motivation.

EggV artwork with a green dinosaur, leaf, Toyota logo, and colorful circles

Plastic Universe

Making plastic recycling approachable for children through playful characters, illustrated stories, and an interactive exhibition.

The seven Plastic Pals characters lined up on a white background

About Keyan

Keyan standing on an autumn tree-lined street in a blue jacket

Education

The University of Texas at Austin

BFA in Design

GPA: 4.0

Skills

  • User Interviews
  • Competitive Research
  • User Testing
  • Problem Solving
  • Vibe Coding

Tools

FigmaAdobeClaude CodexJiraUserTesting

Strengths

  • Deliberative
  • Restorative
  • Harmony
  • Achiever
  • Discipline
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Experience

Paycom

Product Designer
2024–2026

Served as the sole designer across 20+ initiatives, managing three concurrent projects with five PMs and three engineering teams while mentoring two design interns through biweekly critiques and project guidance.

Owned the end-to-end redesign of the Personnel Action Form, a workflow used by 350K+ managers, cutting employee-transfer process time by 50% through a rearchitected approval flow.

Reframed the Performance Discussion Form around real-time performance insights, driving a 25% increase in adoption and surfacing 60% more priority actions and data trends.

Product Intern
Summer 2023

Designed a CRM architecture and led 16 interviews to streamline sales workflows and inform data visualization recommendations.

IBM

Student Designer
Spring 2024

Designed solutions to urbanization challenges and interviewed local business owners to help preserve Austin’s culture.

Design for America UT

Project Manager
2022–2024

Led monthly workshops on design research methods and delivered projects addressing issues across university services.

AIGA Student Chapter

Program Director
2021–2022

Organized design workshops and coordinated 5 professional development events with industry leaders.

Keyan's colorful art and inspiration wall above her desktop
Keyan at the Austin Design Studio
Keyan and collaborators with the Plastic Universe installation
A garden filled with orange and purple wildflowers
Keyan and colleagues at a Paycom team event
Keyan visiting Yellowstone in a blue jacket
Keyan visiting a glacier in a yellow jacket