Vince MingPu Shao
Product engineer and designer focused on front-end
Summary
Multidisciplinary designer-engineer: repeatedly combines visual design and front-end engineering to build polished user experiences, demonstrated across portfolio work, design-system code, and product roles. vinceshao+2
Writer and public thinker: publishes essays and tutorials on design, product, and workflow topics via Substack, Medium, and personal blog, and actively shares learnings on social platforms. substack+2
Interactive and socially minded creator: academic work at NYU ITP includes interactive projects that explore social themes and storytelling, such as the thesis 'Chicken, Parrot and Sparrow' and collaborative pieces like 'Lennon Wall'. nyu+2
Active open-source and teaching orientation: maintains example code and tutorials (notably a SwiftUI design-system demo) intended to teach practical engineering-design techniques. github+1
Work
Education
Projects
Writing
Design is inevitable
December 1, 2024An essay arguing that design is unavoidable and discussing perspectives on design's role in innovation and product work.
How to build design system with SwiftUI
A tutorial on building a robust and flexible design system using the SwiftUI framework.
A better web development workflow: Confluence, Airtable, Jira and Abstract
An article describing a web development workflow that combines Confluence, Airtable, Jira, and Abstract to improve development speed and collaboration.