Ed Chen
Senior Product Designer · Institutional Finance & Fintech
Open to Senior/Principal Roles · Global · Available Now
Five years shipping production design at a regulated ASIC broker. 100K+ traders, 40+ jurisdictions, 150 components, 8 regulatory rewrites absorbed, zero compliance findings.
What you get that most designers can't offer
Regulation read before Figma opens
Most designers need someone to summarize the regulation. Ed reads MiFID II Article 27, ASIC RG 268, and FCA COBS before the first wireframe. The design voice carries weight in compliance reviews because the preparation already happened.
Design systems that survive regulatory change
At ACY Securities, a 150-component system absorbed 8 regulatory rewrites without a rebuild cycle. Each event that used to cost 3–4 engineering weeks now costs 3–5 days. That compression shows up as gross margin the business keeps.
Institutional domain depth — not retail polish
FIX 4.4 order entry, TWAP/VWAP execution surfaces, GARCH volatility models, HMM regime classifiers, EDD onboarding under FinCEN and FATF. Not learned from articles — shipped in production at a regulated broker serving 100K+ traders with $2B+ daily volume.
AI-augmented output velocity
Using Claude Code, Codex, Figma MCP, and Antigravity AI for production campaigns — 2–3 shipped per day in 2026. High-output without quality compromise. The AI work on this portfolio is interactive demos, not slides.
Roles Ed is built for
Senior / Principal Product Designer
IC track at a trading platform, prime brokerage, or regulated fintech. Drives design direction across complex multi-surface products. Deep compliance and technical fluency. Works across PM, engineering, legal, and compliance without mediation.
Design System Lead
Architect and govern a compliance-first component library at scale. Token-first architecture, multi-platform export (CSS/JSON/Tailwind), regulatory change absorption built in at the primitive level. Proven at 150 components across 5 platforms.
Design Engineering Hybrid
Ships working code: HTML/CSS/JS, React, React Native. Builds interactive demos for AI-augmented financial workflows, institutional terminals, and compliance surfaces. Bridges design and engineering without translation loss.
Shipped at an ASIC-regulated broker
Each case study has a named client, a regulatory anchor, and a measured outcome. Concept work is labeled separately and never conflated with shipped production.
150-component design system across 5 product surfaces. Absorbed 8 regulatory rewrites (MiFID II, ASIC RG 268, FCA COBS, FINRA) at the token layer — no surface-level rebuild. Covers 100K+ traders, 40+ jurisdictions, $2B+ daily volume.
- KYC drop-off: 73% → 45% at Enhanced Due Diligence
- Order execution time: 8.2s → 2.9s on institutional ticket
- Regulatory rewrite cost: 3–4 weeks → 3–5 days per event
- Zero material UX-related compliance findings across 4 years
AML-compliant digital onboarding for ultra-high-net-worth clients. Where editorial craft meets regulatory obligation — each disclosure line serves both brand trust and audit trail requirements.
Redesigned financial data widget platform. 40% reduction in analysis time. Pooled-SD A/B methodology, Cohen's d = 2.47 across a 90-day post-launch window.
Working surfaces, not slides
Every AI-augmented project on this portfolio runs in the browser. Click through, not just scroll through.
Frameworks designed around in production
Where Ed's profile fits
Firms that operate under regulatory scrutiny and need a designer who treats compliance as a product surface, not an afterthought. Companies where design decisions have P&L and regulatory consequences.
The regulation is already read. The domain is already deep. The system is already built. If your team needs a designer who can walk into a compliance review, a product sprint, and an engineering standup in the same day — and add signal to each one — let's talk.