Costco, Product Design Internship
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 Science2026 – now
- Costco IT / Product Design Internsummer 2026
- Tricia 42 / Product Designer2024 – 2025
- Here For You / UI/UX Designer2024
- Tech4Good Lab / UX Researcher2023 – 2024
- UC Santa Cruz / B.A. Game Design2020 – 2024
Case Studies
some reflections on my design process
Winning 1st Place with TravelBestie
Deployed an AI Travel Itinerary Planner that saves planning time and won first place.
#mobile#travel#ai#frontend#ui#hackathon#ACMxGraceHopper
Shipping a hand-drawn design system
Turned my 'airplane draft' into a production ready component library
#design-system#react.js#storybook#ai#illustration
UniLink: mentorship for exchange students
Peer mentorship app for the first 30 days abroad — research, system, and prototype in 4 weeks.
#mobile#community#ui#interaction#uxresearch
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!
shaker 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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