Eva Lynn Cheung

About

I read psychology before I read specs.

My degree is in it, with a business minor, and the habit stuck: before I touch a layout I want to know what the person was trying to do and the exact moment the software made them stop.

That turns out to be useful in the least glamorous corners of software — document SDKs, a Windows app older than some of its users, an enterprise page with four audiences fighting over one hero. Dense, high-stakes, unfashionable. It is my favourite kind of problem.

I moved from New Jersey to Canada in 2020 and now design for Apryse out of Ontario.

Eva Lynn Cheung standing under a cherry blossom tree in bloom.
Ontario, Canada. Work-authorised in the United States and Canada.

Experience

Two companies, three titles, nine projects.

  1. Apryse

    2021—Present

    1. Senior Product Designer Apr 2023 – present
    2. Product Designer Nov 2021 – Apr 2023

  2. HPE

    Hewlett Packard Enterprise

    2019—2021

    1. UX Designer May 2019 – Nov 2021

How I work with AI

A partner on parts of the work, not a replacement for it.

I sit on Apryse’s internal AI team. I use these tools as a partner on specific parts of the process rather than handing over the process — the work changes shape depending on what the initiative needs, and the judgement stays mine.

Prototyping
Building something that behaves like a live app in under a day, so a flow can be validated with real users in days instead of sprints.
Research
Pressure-testing a scoping document against its own goals and hypotheses to find the gap I have missed, and transcribing and summarising session recordings — with timestamps, so I go and watch the moment rather than trust the summary.
Copy
I write warm by default. AI is how I close the distance between my voice and the product’s, so the interface sounds like one thing.
Feasibility
Getting up to speed on an unfamiliar stack fast enough to ask engineering a better question, sooner. Exploration only — none of it ships.

What I actually use

Figma Make
Prototypes, and animation references for developers
Figma MCP
Batch edits, recolouring and reorganising existing components
Claude and Gemini
Scoping documents, research analysis, UX copy, filling knowledge gaps
Claude Code with AWS Bedrock
Code feasibility experiments, never production

Background

What I bring to the first meeting.

Education

  1. UX & UI Design Certification

    CareerFoundry 2019

  2. B.A. Psychology, Minor in Business

    Montclair State University 2015

Practice

  • Product design
  • Analytics
  • User experience design
  • User interface design
  • Cross-functional collaboration
  • End-to-end design process
  • Data-informed decision making

Off the clock

When I am not doing this.

  • RPG gaming (Legend of Zelda, Animal Crossing, Stardew Valley, Final Fantasy)
  • TV shows and movies
  • Spending time with loved ones