SHORTLISTED
Summer 2025 - SHORTLISTED
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.
Mellowee is a conceptual menstrual care subscription brand designed to make an essential product feel personal, soft, and natural. At the heart of the project is customization: customers can set their own delivery cycle to match their menstrual rhythm and build a package that reflects their needs. Depending on flow, length, or personal preference, users can choose different sizes and quantities of pads, creating a subscription that feels both practical and uniquely their own. The brand name combines Mellow—symbolizing softness and calm—with Wee, where We represents togetherness and the added e stands for the consumer. This reflects Mellowee’s vision of a brand built alongside its users, positioning menstrual care as a natural, supportive part of daily life. The brand’s core values are Customization, Softness, and Sustainability. These are expressed not only through the service but also the design. Products are framed as natural, everyday essentials, and packaging highlights both emotional warmth and environmental awareness. Visual identity reinforces this philosophy through pastel tones of baby pink, deep green, pastel yellow, and magenta pink. Watercolor-inspired textures convey fluidity and softness, while rounded, cloud-like typography adds a friendly and approachable touch. The packaging system emphasizes ease and delight, making the unboxing moment feel special rather than routine. With the tagline “Everyday & Feel Special,” Mellowee challenges the idea that menstrual care must be clinical or impersonal. Instead, it reimagines it as a personalized, thoughtful experience that values comfort, inclusivity, and emotional well-being.
LooperRoom App is an AI-powered mental health support platform designed to bridge the gap between therapy sessions. Created for both patients and clinicians, it combines friendly chatbot interactions with clinician-facing dashboards to reduce patient dropout and strengthen continuity of care. I led the end-to-end product design—from user flows and questionnaire logic to interface systems and enterprise-level clinician tools. My work included designing conditional form logic based on patient age, setting up modular components for responsive UI, and crafting a tone that balances trustworthiness with approachability. I also collaborated closely with PMs and engineers to ensure clinical accuracy and data compliance. LooperRoom is not a virtual therapist, but a connective system—keeping patients engaged, informed, and emotionally supported between sessions. As a designer, I focused on creating an ecosystem that empowers both sides of care: patients and providers. The result is a product that is scalable, accessible, and deeply human-centered.
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