Chris Zhang
Strategic Product Designer
I'm a product designer who obsesses over a particular moment: when the problem framing isn't quite right and getting it wrong poisons everything downstream. Right now, I'm fascinated by how AI is shaping human cognition and its implications for experience architecture and interaction design.
At M+A, I lead UX as an Associate Director. My proudest work is a healthcare platform rebuild where the real job was helping the organization understand itself before designing the experience. What I built there still shapes the company today. Separately, I was the sole designer on an AI copilot for accounting, where I owned the end-to-end design of an augmented-judgment product until acquisition.
I build stuff in Claude Code, write essays on the cost of attention, host dinners in my Park Slope backyard, and travel whenever I can. I play pickleball and love the sustain-release of techno — some of the few things I don't overthink. My cat Ollie is thoroughly unimpressed.
