Melody Yu

Product Design @Grafana | Prev @Docker🐳 | RISD Industrial Design + Computation

New York, New York, United States

About

👋 Hi I'm Melody 👩🏻‍🎨 I love using my design skills to not just make digital products look pretty, but products that work! Website: www.yujmelody.com Email: [email protected]

Experience

  • Grafana Labs (Full-time · 1 yr 6 mos)
    • Product Designer II
      Mar 2026 - Present · 5 mos

      Frontend + Mobile Observability

    • Product Designer
      Feb 2025 - Mar 2026 · 1 yr 2 mos

      Kubernetes monitoring

  • Product Designer at Docker, Inc
    Jun 2024 - Aug 2024 · 3 mos

    Docker Desktop team

  • UI/UX Designer at CompSciLib
    Nov 2023 - Jun 2024 · 8 mos

    - 500+student usage expansion resulting from leading end-to-end website+ mobile design of a SaaS software offering AI-powered homework tools - 15%revenue increase since 2022 resulting from conducting weekly user research sessions with beta testers to inform design decisions for a 1 to n product - Shipped out design iterations weekly to ensure timely development and implementation, in direct collaboration with front and back engineers

  • UX Researcher/Designer at Grafana Labs
    Jun 2023 - Aug 2023 · 3 mos

    - Optimized software agent efficiency for managing 100,000+ agents in B2B enterprises by designing interfaces independently for a team of 4 engineers - Saved company $120,000 annually by presenting developed user panel practices during a critical stakeholder meeting - Conducted 13 in-depth user research interviews, synthesized data, and proposed design recommendations based on quantitative and qualitative data sources - Multileveled stakeholders provided feedback on project pitch crafted to enhance communication, fostering cross-team collaboration through arranged meetings

  • 3D & UI Designer at Brown RISD Game Developers
    Feb 2022 - May 2023 · 1 yr 4 mos

    Executed visual direction of scenery narrative and in-game user interface for Ascension, a student-initiated zero gravity 3D shooter game