Xueyi (Sherry) Zhou.

• Lead product for Karmaplot, a novel reading app, running experiments on conversion and monetization data to turn TikTok traffic into readers and revenue.
• Use AI coding tools to work beyond design: ship production front-end pull requests and build the event tracking and analytics dashboards behind each experiment.

• Lifted app distribution 10.6% across 10M+ new devices by shipping 4 experiment tracks, with 75% click-through on the winning bundle.
• Designed OOBE app discovery flows for Samsung, T-Mobile and a dozen other OEMs, reaching tens of millions of new phones a quarter and seven-figure revenue.

Design system & guidelines

• Led MIUI Design System 2.0 for an OS used by 700 million people, aligning 7+ product teams and 6 SDK engineers on shared component rules and introducing design tokens.
• Grew the guideline team from 2 to 7 people while rebuilding the full set of component guidelines.
• Guided 20+ business teams through localization with multilingual guidelines: adaptive layouts that prevent text truncation, and cross-cultural rules for imagery, icons and color.
• Set the foldable-screen design guidelines adopted by every business team across the OS.

Lock screen & desktop

• Designed the MIUI lock screen editor as sole UX designer in a team of 11: one editing framework and two-axis gallery for 3 template families, 40+ screens in 10 months.
• Delivered desktop interaction design for MIUI 14, including large icons and folders, continuous widget adding and widget edit-mode specs, validated through usability tests.
• Designed and facilitated a 40-person co-creation workshop across departments on the desktop experience.

HCI research

• Ran Xiaomi’s first design-led HCI study end to end, mapping 144 touch zones with 40 participants into heatmaps, hot zone guidelines and an audit app.

• Designed gesture systems and cross-device interaction for 3 form factors: phones, tablets and foldables.
• Authored patents for cross-device interaction features.