It's so nice to meet you, I'm Jingyi.

The human behind the pixels

Hello world!

I'm Jingyi Zhu, a product designer in the Bay Area. I work on complex AI products: the kind where an agent does real work, and a person still needs to understand it, check it, and make the final call.

Lately that has meant an AI co-scientist for materials R&D and an AI employee for finance teams, both built from zero, along with AI tools for creators and brands, and seller payments at eBay. I like owning the whole arc, from framing the problem to prototyping it in code.

Off the clock, I'm a full-time cat mom 😺, a self-taught photographer 📷 and an astrology enthusiast 🔮. You'll find me hiking in spring and fall, skiing in winter, and swimming in summer.

My take on AI product design

The through-line in my work

People keep asking whether AI will replace designers. It's the wrong question. As models grow more autonomous, the bottleneck moves from capability to context, and the designer's role moves with it: from Human-in-the-Loop, approving each step, to Human-on-the-Loop, setting direction and stepping in where it matters. When anyone can generate a hundred screens in a minute, judgment becomes the scarce thing, and the layer I design is what makes that autonomy trustworthy.