Costco IT — Core Engineering Team
Designed for Costco's internal platform — its design system, AI tooling, and the landing page for Costco's first agentic AI.
#design-system#ai#internship
Daphne Cheng
Daphne is a designer driven to make complex
interactions feel natural through code and research.
Experience
- Georgia Tech / M.S. Computer Science’26 – now
- Costco IT / Product Design Intern’26
- Tricia 42 / Product Designer’24 – 2025
- Here For You / UI/UX Designer’24
- Tech4Good Lab / UX Researcher’23 – 2024
- UC Santa Cruz / B.A. Game Design’20 – 2024
Works
some reflections on my design process
Shipping a hand-drawn design system
Turned my airplane draft into a production-ready component library and a React Native timer app.
#design-system#react-native#storybook#wobble-svg#illustration
UniLink: Designing a Mentorship Platform for Exchange Students
A mobile app that connects incoming global students with peer mentors to help them navigate academics, culture, and daily life in a new country.
#mobile#community#ui#interaction#uxresearch
Travel Bestie: AI Itinerary for You
Deploying a Travel Planner that cut user planning time using AI-generated suggestions based on Yelp and user preferences.
#mobile#travel#ai#frontend#ui#hackathon#ACMxGraceHopper
Playground
some fun things I make
friendship wrap
Modeled after my friend's squishmallow. An interactive three.js wrap with particles and shaders — made to wrap our 2025!
floating digital card
I'm into card making — but for long-distance friends it had to go digital. Device tilt, pure CSS, no canvas.
BodyFlow +AR
FigBuild 2026 hackathon — speculative AR sport coach built in Figma Make. Real-time cues, post-set summaries, and a 3D buddy for proprioception.
Hi, I’m Daphne.
thanks for checking out my work
Who I am.
I’m a product designer who makes complex interactions feel natural. I started in game design, but a game reaches one player at a time — tools and products reach everyone, every day.
I grew up between California and Taiwan, so I design for more than one reading of a screen: how a layout breaks in another language, and which users a single-language team might miss.
What I’ve been up to.
I just wrapped a product design internship at Costco, where I came in to finish a design system project and ended up modernizing it. Now I’m studying at Georgia Tech and looking for a team where designers work directly with engineers, building tools that make agentic AI better.
Outside of work.
While not designing, I’m grinding Teamfight Tactics, working through a movie list with my partner, whisking matcha with my own kit, ranking matcha spots on beli, and hanging out with my cat — he’s my everything right now.
Based in California
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