Hello
About
I'm Song Qian — a product designer and builder in Shanghai. I make calm, useful software, and the occasional beautiful website.
Product designer & builder · Shanghai, China
I'm a designer who codes. I care about the details other people skip — the weight of a divider, the exact easing curve on a hover, the difference between a page that loads and a page that feels instant.
I studied design and spent the first years of my career shipping interfaces nobody noticed — which is, I think, the highest compliment an interface can receive. Later I moved into design systems and product strategy.
Experience
- 2024 — Present
Lumen Labs
Product Designer
- 2021 — 2024
Meridian
Senior Product Designer, Design Systems
- 2019 — 2021
Fieldnote
Product Designer
- 2017 — 2019
Independent
Freelance designer & developer
- 2015
Aalto University
Exchange semester, Visual Communication Design
- 2014
Fine Print Studio
Design intern
- 2013 — 2017
Tongji University
B.A. Visual Communication Design
Elsewhere
Colophon
Designed and coded by hand. No themes, no templates — every pixel is deliberate.
Built with Astro, Tailwind CSS and TypeScript; self-hosted variable fonts; hosted on Cloudflare.
- Built
- Astro 7 · Tailwind CSS 4 · TypeScript
- Type
- Source Serif 4 · Inter · JetBrains Mono, self-hosted variable fonts
- Hosting
- Cloudflare, fully static
Written, translated and maintained in six languages.
— Song Qian, Shanghai, at a standing desk, most mornings.