Hello, world.

I'm Chris Ota, a San Francisco-based product designer working at Lyft. I am passionate about researching problems and solving them through design while providing a pleasant user experience.

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My Work

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Lyft

Led the redesign of our Concierge dispatching tool to assist healthcare riders, standardized components to be used across our family of Lyft Business products, assisted with interviewing and hiring committees, and co-chaired internal design mentorship program.

Design, Research

Apple

Designed and built an internal dashboard reporting system for the Apple Maps Engineering team to display data from other tools used in the organization. Other team contributions included an internal design system, which assisted engineers with the styling of their applications.

User Experience Documentation, Design, HTML/CSS

Mall Redesign

A large mall was looking for a redesign to improve the online browsing experience for local and international visitors.

I was involved with creating user-experience documents (touchpoints, site audit, competitor analysis, sitemaps, responsive wireframes, user personas, customer and stakeholder interviews) and a mobile-first design approach.

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User Experience Documentation, Design, HTML/CSS, WordPress Integration

School Kine Cookies

School Kine Cookies was looking for a custom, backend dashboard system to help teachers manage local cookie sales in Hawaii. After launching, there was a 98% adoption rate with a steady increase of sales.

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Wireframes, Design, HTML/CSS, Ruby on Rails, Shopify Integration

Clearstream.tv

Headquartered in Chicago, Clearstream came to us looking for a custom dashboard reporting system. Built from the ground up, I worked closely with engineers and stakeholders during many different steps of the process.

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Design, HTML/CSS, Ruby on Rails

Resort Design

A local hotel and resort chain wanted to refresh the look of their current site and rethink the user experience when looking for a room. We also worked closely with the client on widening their appeal to a broader audience by coming up with social media strategies.

Wireframes, Design

Personal

CodePen

I like to test my front-end capabilities in CodePen from time to time. Whether it is illustrating something in pure CSS or squashing an annoying visual bug, I enjoy the challenge in trying to accomplish something new.

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Various

Things Around SF

Since I am not a San Francisco native, I have become more aware of my surroundings and environment. To reflect this, I started an illustration series called "Things Around SF". Each illustration was created for fun in a couple of hours. Enjoy!

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Illustration

About

Chris Ota Product Designer
Chris Ota Product Designer
Chris Ota Product Designer
Chris Ota Product Designer

14 Years Ago...

I graduated from Kapiolani Community College with a degree in Interface Design and began my career working for different agencies in Hawaii.

In 2015, I packed my bags and decided to move to San Francisco for a fresh start and to immerse myself in the world of design.

  • ♠️ K-pop/k-dramas
  • 🏃 Runner, swimmer, snowboarder #runtoeat
  • ⛩️ Japanese Japanophile いただきます
  • 🌱 Plant parent Resisting the urge to overwater
  • 🧹 All things Ghilbi How can you pick just one

Clock created with only HTML and CSS


Good design is long-lasting.

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