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Ray Xia

Product Designer

Hi there, I'm Ray. I love playing around with tools and thinking about why they're made the way they are.

So far I've been bringing service innovations to life through designing apps, websites, and AI chatbots for small and large companies, automating customer services, and combating nursing shortage.

I'm currently pursuing a master's degree in human-computer interaction at Carnegie Mellon, where I'm learning how to make AI-powered products more explainable and acceptable.

Beyond designing, my strengths lie in managing people, articulating decisions, and navigating ambiguity.

Experience

Lead Product Designer

CMU ENAiBLE  |  Jan - Jul 2025

  • Led the design of real-time AI personalization for physical retail fashion stores, achieving 93% user adoption intent with a cursor-based prototype.
  • Tested and validated market opportunity through 70+ hours of user interviews and concept testing, mapping user pain points to retail business goals to define ENAiBLE's partnership opportunities and future product roadmap.
  • Secure cross-functional stakeholder buy-in by presenting compelling narratives, service blueprints, and insight-driven visual models.

UX Designer

BJC HealthCare  |  May 2023 - May 2024

  • Led the delivery of a web application that streamlines employee shift scheduling experiences, driving 245,000+ scheduled work hours and $1.2M in operational savings within one quarter.
  • Partnered with 3 UX Researchers to evaluate employee work satisfaction, resulting in an optimized product roadmap delivered to C-suite stakeholders.
  • Extended BJC's design system by creating scalable UI components across platforms and surfaces, ensuring consistency and responsiveness while adhering to brand guidelines.
  • Designed, prototyped, and tested 3 core product features that improve nurse communication, iterating in a research-informed, agile environment.

UX Designer & Engineer Intern

Rulai, Inc.  |  Jun - Sep 2022

  • Sole designer of a Conversational AI startup designing and developing low-code virtual assistant builder for 20+ enterprise customer service teams.
  • Revamped the product demo system end-to-end through by analyzing user behavior, improving visual design, and building interactive demos for 60+ new platform features.
  • Collaborated closely with Engineering and Marketing teams to create documentation that increased demo efficiency by ~40%.

UX Engineer

CMU PHORA  |  Jan - Apr 2025

  • Designed and developed the front-end for a clinical decision support system, which uses machine learning to analyze patient risk levels and improve physician decision-making.
  • Drove the AI-integrated treatment decision workflow, designing interfaces that display real time and historical patient data, increasing model interactivity and explainability.
  • Improved physician-AI collaboration experience by creating informative data visualization and integrating new features seamlessly to existing workflow.

Academic Projects

Conversation Game for People Living with Alzheimer's

Fabula(b)  |  Jan - Apr 2024

  • Conducted market research and interviews with subject matter experts and family members to evaluate the effectiveness, accessibility, and desirability of applied Reminiscence Therapy to support the community of people living with Alzheimer's.
  • Designed features and interactions from concept to high-fidelity prototypes of a conversation game to deliver more accessible Reminiscence Therapy.

Education

Carnegie Mellon University

2024 - 2025  |  Pittsburgh, PA

Master of Human-Computer Interaction

GPA: 4.06

Washington University in St. Louis

2020 - 2024  |  St. Louis, MO

Bachelor of Fine Arts

Communication Design Major, Minor in Computer Science

GPA: 3.97/4.00

Skills

User Experience Design, Product Strategy, Conversational AI Design, Human-AI Collaboration, User Interface Design and Development, Design Systems, Prototyping, Usability Testing, Visual Design, Graphic Design, Information Architecture, Qualitative & Quantitative Research, Market Research, Workflow Analysis, Data Visualization, Interpersonal Communication, Cross Functional Collaboration

Tools and Languages

Figma, Axure, Illustrator, Photoshop, After Effects, Tableau, Power BI, HTML/CSS/JavaScript (React, Svelte, Astro), Firebase, Cursor, Claude AI, Azure OpenAI Studio

Things I Make
Emoji Prosthesis
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Pipe Type
A modular set of characters designed with pipes, inspired by how much I love pipe games.
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How Cities Breathe
Visualizing the rhythms of city atmosphere using real-time weather data.
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