designer · developer · tokyo

Yanwen

I design and build multilingual websites and products.

Designer and developer in Tokyo. From UX to production code, shipped solo, in English, 日本語, and 中文.

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Selected work

Mizuki Travel

Trilingual marketing site for a Japan tourism company, serving guests in three languages.

Sole designer and developer

Live in EN, 日本語, and 中文 at mizukitravel.com

  • Web
  • Next.js
  • i18n

Daijoubu

AI app that helps foreigners in Japan understand official mail and paperwork.

Sole designer and developer

1st place, AI Meets Her hackathon

  • AI
  • Product
  • Web

The Global Feminist Atlas

Interactive map pairing feminist literature with women's rights milestones, drawn like dye spreading on cloth.

Sole designer, developer, and researcher

Live in EN and 中文 at the-global-feminist-atlas.vercel.app

  • Web
  • Data Viz
  • i18n

UCSB Library

Full-stack web development and UX work for the university library's Drupal platform.

Web development and UX

+20% average session duration after redesign

  • UX
  • Web

More projects in the Coding and UX archive. Or bring me a new one: let's talk.

Yanwen Chen
sideways on purpose :)

I studied applied mathematics and art at UC Santa Barbara, and I have worked across product management, QA engineering, data analysis, and full-stack development. The same hands that mixed indigo and cochineal dyes now design and ship software. That mix is the point: I care about how things work and how they feel.

More about me
Indigo dye experiments Cochineal dye experiments Self Portrait painting

Playground

Dyeing, drawing, and experiments that keep the work interesting.

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Let's build something

Freelance projects, collaborations, and interesting problems. I usually reply within a day.

Taking on freelance projects now. Open to the right full-time role too.

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