🤙 Chris Ota

I'm a Staff Product Designer based in San Francisco at Lyft, specializing in B2B and healthcare. I’m passionate about web experiences, culture building, accessibility, and crafting seamless user experiences.

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My Work

Professional

Lyft

Led the redesign of our business suite and Concierge dispatching tool for healthcare riders, standardized web components for compliance across products, contributed to interview and hiring committees, and co-chaired the internal design mentorship program.

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Design, Research

Apple

Designed and built an internal dashboard reporting system for the Apple Maps Engineering team to display data from other tools used in the organization. Other team contributions included an internal design system, which assisted engineers with the styling of their applications.

User Experience Documentation, Design, HTML/CSS

Mall Redesign

A large mall was looking for a redesign to improve the online browsing experience for local and international visitors.

I was involved with creating user-experience documents (touchpoints, site audit, competitor analysis, sitemaps, responsive wireframes, user personas, customer and stakeholder interviews) and a mobile-first design approach.

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User Experience Documentation, Design, HTML/CSS, WordPress Integration

School Kine Cookies

School Kine Cookies was looking for a custom, backend dashboard system to help teachers manage local cookie sales in Hawaii. After launching, there was a 98% adoption rate with a steady increase of sales.

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Wireframes, Design, HTML/CSS, Ruby on Rails, Shopify Integration

Clearstream.tv

Headquartered in Chicago, Clearstream came to us looking for a custom dashboard reporting system. Built from the ground up, I worked closely with engineers and stakeholders during many different steps of the process.

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Design, HTML/CSS, Ruby on Rails

Resort Design

A local hotel and resort chain wanted to refresh the look of their current site and rethink the user experience when looking for a room. We also worked closely with the client on widening their appeal to a broader audience by coming up with social media strategies.

Wireframes, Design

Personal

Helping through experience

Whether it’s speaking to a room full of eager students or flying to Japan to share perspectives on working at a design-centric company, I love teaching and sharing my experiences to help others on their own journeys.

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About

Chris Ota Product Designer

16 years ago...

I graduated from Kapiolani Community College with a degree in Interface Design and began my career working for different agencies in Hawaii.

In 2015, I packed my bags and decided to move to San Francisco for a fresh start and to immerse myself in the world of design.

My fun design fact? I got Netflix to add a photosensitive warning to an episode of Squid Game in Season 1.

View my professional journey on LinkedIn.

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Good design is long-lasting.

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