Chevis Zhou is a design engineer. He builds the pipeline a product comes out of, then ships that product's interface to production.
AethrDesign: One file per client, and the delivery system that turns it into shipped work.
AethrDesign is my design practice, run since August 2025 on one argument: one person directing AI can carry strategy, design, code and client operations at team scope. The test isn't shipping alone. It's whether that leverage travels, and since August 2026 it has, on the growth pod at Arca Wealth. Some of the work below runs live on this page.
Treevah: Navigation that feels like folders and works like filters, and the design operation built to ship it.
Treevah, a filter-driven cloud file manager taking on Google Drive, carried a real product tension and no design structure to resolve it in. I redesigned the navigation that settled the tension, then proposed the operating model that let a ten-person design org ship it, and led the Design System Team that ran it.
Solara: One visual system, and the documentation portal it gave an open-source Python framework.
Solara, an open-source Python web framework, lacked the infrastructure to sell. I owned the design strategy for its documentation portal, and built the visual system underneath it: a 100+ component Figma library resolving through 49 semantic color variables. The portal launched into the framework's steepest year of growth.
GMU: An eye-tracking study of low-vision users: assistive technology assists, it does not repair.
A 2022 graduate capstone at George Mason University's Visual Attention and Cognition Lab, using Tobii eye-tracking to test whether WCAG compliance is optional for making a website usable by everyone. When 97.4% of top websites fail the guidelines, the burden falls on assistive technologies that were never designed to compensate.
