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Jeremy Xie · Product Designer

Shaping the yet unshaped

A question to carry forward

Jeremy Xie · AI Product Designer

I’m a product designer with eight years of experience. I led design for the entire Zoom Sheets product and owned brand and product experience design at Shimo, leading a team of 3–4. I connect product judgment, AI workflows, and design delivery.

My experience spans collaboration software, advertising, and real estate services. From task dependencies in spreadsheets to AI inputs and outputs, I keep returning to one question: how can complex systems become easier to understand and use?

Collaboration / Data tools / AI interactions / Product development

An evolving design practice

When tools respond, how do we design our relationship with them?

Pygmalion fell in love with an ideal he had sculpted. As AI begins to respond to our expectations, I’m interested in how the tools we shape also change our judgment, habits, and expectations.

A question to carry forward

An evolving design practice

When tools respond, how do we design our relationship with them?

Looking back at my work through this question, I focus on how intent is clarified, differences are made visible, and decisions can be reconsidered.

A question to carry forward

An evolving design practice

Zoom Sheets: product experience and AI design.

As lead designer for Zoom Sheets, I connected the overall experience with charts, conditional formatting, onboarding and data validation, taking user workflows through design decisions, delivery and results.

Lead designer for Zoom Sheets

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Relationships take shape through use.

Like Pygmalion carving his ideal into stone, design gives imagination a tangible form. Colour, proportion, and detail spark the first connection. Through thoughtful interactions, that form finds life in everyday use, shaping how people understand, act, and collaborate—and how a tool earns their lasting affection.

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How I work

  1. Start with the task

I start with people’s roles, goals, and workflows, then define the problem and organize the product around it.

  1. Make the rules visible

I make states, permissions, dependencies, and consequences clear so people know what is happening and what they can do next.

  1. Carry the design through

I carry designs through prototyping, interaction specifications, and engineering collaboration. In my own projects, I also build the tools and examine how the design behaves in use.

Let’s build tools that work better for people.

If you’re looking for a product designer focused on AI, collaboration, and data tools, I’d love to hear from you.