Chevis Zhou is a product design engineer. He builds delivery systems and ships the interfaces they produce.
AethrDesign: TasteLed makes client delivery repeatable, from the first brief to the final handover.
I built TasteLed to turn client-configured briefs into delivered sites: one product spanning intake, design decisions, generation, review and handover. Nineteen client engagements sit behind that system. Alongside it, AethrDesign carries custom AI web apps and my embedded design-engineering work on Arca Wealth’s growth pod. This is the product and operating layer behind those outputs.
Treevah: Folder-like navigation, powered by filters and backed by a design operation that shipped 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: A visual system that makes a Python framework feel ready for production.
Solara needed a developer experience as capable as its Python framework. As the product team’s sole designer, I redesigned its documentation around how developers find, evaluate and use code. A 100+ component Figma library and 49 semantic color variables connect that journey into one coherent experience, from first visit to reference detail.
GMU: An eye-tracking study of simulated low vision: where magnification falls short.
A 2022 graduate capstone at George Mason University's Visual Attention and Cognition Lab, using Tobii eye-tracking to compare navigation and reading across two websites under simulated low vision. Three participants used a scotoma simulator with magnification available, revealing where the tested layouts helped them keep context and where assistive tools fell short.
