Meet Asana Design: Cici Chen
Welcome to our blog series, Meet Asana Design, where we feature members of the Asana Design team.
Why are you in design?
I started my journey with visual art and handcrafting when I was little, influenced by my grandpa’s art spirit. I then chose to go with graphic design in college, which opened the design world to me. I naturally elongated that passion for user experience design and became obsessed with the idea of problem solving. I love that product design combines both visual crafting and problem solving, so I can improve people’s day-to-day life with my skills.
What’s your day-to-day like as an Asana Design team member?
I am working with a fun team and learning new things every day at Asana!
We pretty much live in Asana for our day-to-day work, investigating new experience opportunities for our users. I often collaborate with the team or take “heads down” time for idea crafting; those are the main activities for my day-to-day work. We also like to have fun — happy hours and team hangouts are where I go to recharge myself and meet new people. Asana Design is an energetic team, and I didn’t expect joining a team remotely could be this much fun.
Who or what inspires you?
I love talking to our customers for inspiration on our product design, our product mission, and new perspectives on work and life. At work, my team is where I go for new ideas, feedback, and critique. Also, as a new Asana (Asana is what we call ourselves), I am continuously learning from collaborations with my team in design, product, and engineering, among other disciplines. Also, I often learn from life sketching, meditation, and time with friends and families.
Want to learn more about the Asana Design team? Check out asana.design and get social with us on twitter + instagram.
p.s. We’re hiring!
