Chevis Zhou is a design engineer who designs the product and ships it — from user research to production React, for startups that need both at once.

A capstone research project at George Mason University's Visual Attention and Cognition Lab, using Tobii eye-tracking to prove that WCAG principles are essential — not optional — for creating websites usable by everyone. When 97.4% of top websites fail accessibility guidelines, the burden falls on assistive technologies that were never designed to compensate.

Solara, an open-source Python web framework, lacked the infrastructure to sell. I owned the design strategy for a documentation portal that drove 170,000 monthly downloads and reached 30,000 developers — growing the total addressable market to $10 million.