Great products grow through collaboration and diverse perspectives.
It's about turning imagination into reality, together.
I'm Ann, a product designer at Automattic, based in Kaohsiung, Taiwan. I work on commerce, merchant tools, and the gentle places where humans meet software, trying to make them feel a bit kinder.
Selected work
Things I've designed, roughly chronological.
AI product descriptions
Creating product listings can overwhelm new merchants. This AI tool generates compelling descriptions instantly.
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About screens, with marbles
Unifying the most overlooked screen across Automattic apps, with a physics‑based marble interaction that turns a static legal page into a moment of joy.
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Combobox Patterns (with TreeSelect)
Establishing a scalable combobox + TreeSelect pattern for the WooCommerce design system. Five approaches iterated, one direction landed, built to handle deeply nested hierarchies from shipping zones to product categories.
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Order Attribution Analytics
See where your sales originate. Clear visibility into your WooCommerce order sources, all in one place.
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Brand in Hand
Enabling mobile-first merchants to create WooCommerce stores on the go, turning business setup into a seamless handheld experience.
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Remix
Transform any link, tweet, or story into a beautiful Instagram photo.
See it →More projects on the way, drop me a line if you'd like the longer reel.
On the side
Things I make on the side.
- Prototypr A hand-curated design platform with 20,000+ resources for the design community. Designed in collaboration with engineering. Visit →
- Letter A newsletter design tool. Make beautiful newsletters in minutes, not hours. Designed in collaboration with engineering. Visit →
- CatWatchPR A macOS pixel cat that pops up when there's activity on your GitHub PRs. Designed and built myself, scratching my own itch. Case study soon
Writing
Notes from the design desk.
- Recent Input Validation for Shipping How a fiddly shipping label form became clear, helpful guidance, four iterations and a lot of small decisions, refining one component until it stopped fighting merchants.
- Sep 2018 Side Project: Collectful A weekend side project tackling the digital piles of articles, videos, and resources we save and never revisit, and what I learned trying to design a "where does this go?" tool.
About
A short, mostly true self-portrait.
I grew up in Kaohsiung, spent four formative years in Canada, and once took an Amtrak across America just to see what was out the window.
These days I'm back in Kaohsiung, Taiwan and design product at Automattic, mostly working on WooCommerce and the small humane details that decide whether a tool feels like a friend or a chore.
Off-hours: bubble tea (less sugar), MLB box scores, slow walks past coffee shops, watching cats and dogs do the same eight things over and over and being delighted each time.
Now
What I'm up to this week.
Working on
Radical Speed Month at Automattic.
Building and shipping. Polish later.Drinking
Ok, but first, coffee.
Bubble tea, less sugar, less ice.Watching
The 2026 MLB season.
Currently rooting for: Shohei Ohtani.last updated, casually, by hand ✎