A watercolor hummingbird in flight

An illustrated custard tart

An illustrated frosted bun

An illustrated shiba inu

An illustrated basket of strawberries

An illustrated lamb

An illustrated bundle of carrots, kohlrabi, and kale

An illustrated cup of coffee with a dog's face in the foam

An illustrated cup of instant udon

An illustrated espresso portafilter

An illustrated golden retriever wearing a cone

An illustrated frosted cupcake

An illustrated dog curled up asleep

Irene Cheung

product designer

I design internal tools and data workflows
for engineers and researchers.

Designer who builds and ships code

San Francisco | ex-Meta R&D

Designing...

Wilde Pod powered by Mega-detector

ML pipeline to capture wildlife

Tanmigo

Video annotation platform

My First Art Show

Dog portraits in Bernal Heights!

Case Studies

Abstract wireframe dashboard with two tile grids side by side, marked NDA, with a close button in the corner

Meta

The capture dashboard behind Codec Avatars

Redesigning the internal tool that orchestrates 300+ camera and sensor streams.

Internal ToolsHardware R&DShippedNDA Protected

The live Tanmigo app showing a tango video alongside its timestamped annotations

tanmigo

A 0-to-1 video annotation platform for dancers

Bridging the gap between video discovery and physical practice, designed and built in code with an engineer.

TypeScriptFront-End DevelopmentLive Product

The Claude Code redesign prototype in VS Code: an .mcp.json file open beside the Claude panel, with a context log of edits and a bash command permission prompt

Claude Code

Developer experience in Claude Code

Restoring a sense of agency in AI coding tools, tested with a working prototype.

Agentic Developer ExperienceConceptPrototype

Coming Soon

Felidae Conservation Fund

Shipping a redesign on a nonprofit's legacy site

Rebuilding the public homepage for a wildlife conservation nonprofit on infrastructure it was never built for.

Web DesignLegacy SiteHTML

Coming Soon

More Projects

Two Blue Bottle survey screens: a visit-frequency question and a multi-select on whether customers were given enough information

Operational Redesign Adopted by Corporate

Three years behind the counter, turned into a feedback loop that Blue Bottle's corporate team adopted.

AdoptedSurvey Design

A YouTube livestream with a Moderator Panel showing viewer counts, audience sentiment, an AI chat summary, and quick actions, alongside an Engagement Panel of live chat messages

Agentic Chat Moderation Tool for YouTube

Created a dual-panel moderation dashboard for human moderators to make safe decisions at scale.

Agentic ExperienceConceptDemo

Open Resource

An illustrated blue dove carrying a balloon, with a small chick below

Building a portfolio can be fun, but it's also tedious. I'd rather we learn from each other. If you're a designer who ships your own site, the repo is public.

Tech Stack

Next.js + Tailwind + TypeScript

Tools I used

VS Code

Claude Code

Figma

Code is public. Artwork and content: all rights reserved.