Chevis Zhou is a product design engineer. He builds delivery systems and ships the interfaces they produce.
AethrDesign: TasteLed turns a client brief into a reviewable website build.
I packaged the web design pipeline behind my nineteen delivered client websites as TasteLed. Structured intake turns a client's brief into scope, a reviewed specification and a staged build. Through AethrDesign, I also work as a design engineer on Arca Wealth's growth team, where I built an inline lead form for the team's conversion tracking.
Treevah: Folder-like navigation, powered by filters and backed by a design operation that shipped it.
Treevah is a filter-driven cloud file manager competing with Google Drive. I redesigned its navigation around a tension between power users and people arriving with folder habits, tested it over fifteen rounds, then proposed the operating model that aligned product designers, my Design System Team and engineering around one handoff.
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 pilot under simulated low vision: where magnification fell short.
A 2022 capstone in George Mason's Visual Attention and Cognition Lab. Three sighted graduate students completed the same information tasks on two websites through a low-vision simulator, with a magnifier available. I combined task times, usability ratings, think-aloud notes and Tobii gaze recordings to see where each layout held up, and where magnification did not help.
