Chevis Zhou is a product design engineer. He builds delivery systems and ships the interfaces they produce.
AethrDesign: TasteLed turns a client brief into a website ready for review.
I turned the web design process behind nineteen client sites into TasteLed, a product that takes a brief through to a website ready for approval. Through AethrDesign, I also work inside Arca Wealth's growth team, where my inline lead form and frontend tracking help the team understand who's responding to its campaigns.
Treevah: Cloud file navigation shaped by testing, and the design operation that carried it to release.
Treevah wanted the power of filters with the familiarity of folders. I worked through that tension in its cloud file manager, from a carousel that proved hard to learn to the tabbed navigation that shipped. I also led the design-system team and established the handoff that carried those decisions into engineering.
Solara: Developer documentation made coherent from the page layout to the component spec.
Solara lets developers build web apps in Python. As its product team’s sole designer, I redesigned the documentation to make functions easier to find and code easier to evaluate. The work connected page layouts to a shared component library and a seven-file design operation, giving engineering a consistent reference across the product.
GMU: An eye-tracking pilot tracing the reading problems magnification left unresolved.
For my M.A. capstone at George Mason, I investigated whether a magnifier could compensate for an inaccessible page layout. I ran sessions with three sighted students using simulated low vision, combining task performance with their comments and gaze recordings. The comparison exposed reading and navigation problems, alongside a flaw in what the simulation let us test.
