Chevis Zhou is a product design engineer. He builds delivery systems and ships the interfaces they produce.
AethrDesign: TasteLed makes client delivery repeatable, from the first brief to the final handover.
I built TasteLed to turn client-configured briefs into delivered sites: one product spanning intake, design decisions, generation, review and handover. All nineteen delivered client websites came through that same evolving pipeline, now packaged as TasteLed. Alongside it, AethrDesign carries custom AI web apps and my embedded design-engineering work on Arca Wealth’s growth pod. This is the product and operating layer behind those outputs.
Treevah: Folder-like navigation, powered by filters and backed by a design operation that shipped it.
Treevah, a filter-driven cloud file manager taking on Google Drive, carried a real product tension and no design structure to resolve it in. I redesigned the navigation that settled the tension, then proposed the operating model that let a ten-person design org ship it, and led the Design System Team that ran it.
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 study of simulated low vision: where magnification falls short.
A 2022 graduate capstone at George Mason University's Visual Attention and Cognition Lab, using Tobii eye-tracking to compare navigation and reading across two websites under simulated low vision. Three participants used a scotoma simulator with magnification available, revealing where the tested layouts helped them keep context and where assistive tools fell short.
