I'm Calvin Robert Lee

I am a T-shaped Product Designer with a background in architecture. I combine my knowledge in business, design, and systems to create intuitive & elegant design experiences.

Background

Having started in architecture, I approach challenges and complex systems as a problem solver.

Most recently, I designed and launched mobile features in the crypto space. Before that, I created a comprehensive brand for a startup in the neurotechnology space. I thrive best in cross-functional teams at tech startups in international markets.

My work and skillset have directly assisted founders and professors acquire funding in the tens of millions of dollars. I understand business goals, launching on pressing timelines, front-end dev, design systems, and mobile apps.

Design Philosophy

I value products that make people's lives easier. A creator needs to be able to abandon an idea if it isn't working. I value creators that work hard to solve difficult, real-world problems. Here are some principles I use when creating:

• Find the first principles of a problem
• Understand everything is a system, map it out
• Don’t forget the problem you are trying to solve
• Less is more, but too little is nothing
• Have grit, be open to feedback
• Communication is key, be transparent
• Design from intution
• Research is crucial to advance the details
• Know your constraints
• Revisit ideas and solutions from different viewpoints
• Bridge concepts from other fields

Digital Ecosystem

As a creator, I thrive the most when my digital ecosystem is thoroughly interconnected, here is a list of some of the apps I use on a daily basis:

• Craft for personal wiki, learning notes, and more
• Figma for designs, brainstorming personal projects, systems
• Things 3 for GTD
• Visual Studio Code for coding
• MindNode for mapping: projects, areas of knowledge, books
• Bear for longform notes and writing
• GoodNotes 5 for brainstorming in written form, markups
• Day One for daily journaling, documenting my life, reflections
• Bearable for daily intakes and self-tracking
• Way of Life for habit tracking
• Eagle for local multimedia storage, tagging, and organizing
• Raindrop.io for bookmark managment
• Alfred 4 for quicker global control of macOS
• Paste for clipboard organization
• Bartender 3 for a clearner menu
• Magnet for window organization
• BetterTouchTool or personalized hotkeys and shortcuts
• Spotify for lots of music!