Summer 2025 - SHORTLISTED

Robin Ahn

Cypris is a research platform that centralizes global innovation data—patents, academic papers, company news, and organizations—for R&D professionals. As the company’s first in-house product designer, Robin Ahn was brought on to define the design vision and build a unified system that could scale with Cypris’ rapidly growing datasets. Partnering closely with engineers, analysts, and stakeholders, Robin led a ground-up reimagining of the platform—transforming it into an intuitive, accessible, and AI-powered workspace. With millions of new research papers and a rapidly expanding patent dataset, Robin designed interfaces to visualize complex legal metadata like patent families, events, citations, and global assignees. She also introduced a Lucene-based Advanced Search with Boolean builders, inline help, and real-time query feedback—making powerful functionality usable for both experts and casual users. Beyond search, she overhauled the dashboard, side panels, and interactions to improve navigation, discovery, and engagement with Saved Searches, Collections, and AI Reports. She also led a full redesign of Monitoring, simplifying setup, improving the email experience, and creating dashboards to track citations, legal events, and AI-tracked trends. Her work established Cypris as a scalable, enterprise-grade research product—elevating its design, usability, and ability to support global R&D workflows at scale.