# Stephan Ye

> Product builder, close to a decade of experience.

Personal site of Stephan Ye: bio, experience, notes, case studies, and visual experiments. Every entry below is available in full at https://stephanye.design/llms-full.txt.

## About

- [Ride as much or as little](https://stephanye.design/ride)
- [God damn it, you've got to be kind](https://stephanye.design/be-kind)
- [Skillset](https://stephanye.design/skills): Tools and disciplines I work with.
- [Hard Problems](https://stephanye.design/hard-problems): The kind of work that keeps me interested.
- [Bikepacker](https://stephanye.design/bikepacker): Slow travel on two wheels, one pannier at a time.
- [Autobio](https://stephanye.design/autobio): A longer, more personal version of the story.
- [Profile Photo](https://stephanye.design/profile-pic): The face behind the pixels.
- [About](https://stephanye.design/bio): Product builder, close to a decade of experience.

## Experience

- [Lead Product Design (Altura, 2024 — current)](https://stephanye.design/experience-altura): Leading product design at Altura.
- [Lead Product Design (Alphadoc, Amsterdam, NL, 2022 — 2024)](https://stephanye.design/experience-alphadoc): Lead Product Design from 0 to 1 within DevEx tooling space
- [Product Design Service (Stephan Ye Design, Amsterdam, NL, 2016 — current)](https://stephanye.design/experience-stephanye-design): Design partner for SaaS across ClimateTech, Fintech, DevEx, and AI.
- Fullstack Web Developer Bootcamp (Le Wagon, Amsterdam, NL, 2022): 3 month web development bootcamp
- [Senior Product Designer (Lightspeed, Amsterdam, NL, 2020 — 2022)](https://stephanye.design/experience-lightspeed): Rebuilding the native Point-of-Sale around how retail staff sell.
- [Product Designer (Verifone, Amsterdam, NL, 2019 — 2020)](https://stephanye.design/experience-verifone): Merchant onboarding, a payment gateway, and Verifone's first design system.
- [UX Designer (Lynk&Co, Gothenburg, SWE, 2016 — 2019)](https://stephanye.design/experience-lynk-co): Infotainment, mobile app, and the brand's first design system.
- [Industrial Designer (Edorado Marine, Shanghai, CHN, 2015 — 2016)](https://stephanye.design/experience-edorado-marine): Industrial and service design for an electric speedboat.
- Master of Arts (Tongji University, Shanghai, CHN, 2014 — 2015): Double degree exchange in Industrial Design.
- Erasmus Exchange (Delft University of Technology, Delft, NL, 2012 — 2013): Erasmus exchange in Strategic Product Development.
- Master of Science/Engineering (Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, SWE, 2008 — 2014): B.Sc and M.Sc in Industrial Design Engineering.

## Notes

- [Gated demo (Demo)](https://stephanye.design/gated/gated-demo): A password-gated post, here to prove the gate works. Safe to delete.
- [Ride as much or as little](https://stephanye.design/ride)
- [God damn it, you've got to be kind](https://stephanye.design/be-kind)

## Souvenir

- [Humane Lighting (LumenRadio, Gothenburg, SWE, 2019)](https://stephanye.design/lumenradio): Consolidating AirGlow's light commissioning into one workflow, from planning to install to daily use.
- [Carbon Counting (CarbonCloud, Gothenburg, SWE, 2018)](https://stephanye.design/carboncloud): A food climate-impact tool, from kitchen input to guest-facing menus.

## Canvas

- [Placeholder piece](https://stephanye.design/canvas/placeholder-piece): Placeholder generative piece.

## Optional

- [Full content](https://stephanye.design/llms-full.txt): every entry, complete, in markdown
- [Content index (JSON)](https://stephanye.design/content-index.json): flat plain-text corpus with metadata
- [RSS](https://stephanye.design/rss.xml): full-text feed
- [Résumé](https://stephanye.design/resume): printable CV