I turn

chaos

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Hi! I am April Zhu.

Product architect. I build complex digital products from 0 to 1 — from the system logic underneath to the interface people touch.

Trained in spatial logic, I now design digital systems — from DeFi and financial derivatives to climate intelligence and data-heavy B2B platforms.

My work sits between product logic, UX architecture, interface design, brand systems, and AI-assisted prototyping.

Selected Systems I’ve Built

Three 0-to-1 products where I led design from concept to shipped reality — translating complex underlying systems into clear product experiences.

Pendle

Decentralized Finance · Trading Protocol

As lead product and visual designer, I shaped Pendle V2 from the ground up — taking abstract yield primitives like PT, YT, maturity, and implied APY and making them legible enough for users to trade with confidence.

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Role

  • Product Design
  • UIUX
  • Branding
  • Product Logic
  • Project Management
  • $0 → $54BMonthly trading volume
  • 0 → 42,500Monthly active users

Boros

Decentralized Finance · Derivatives Platform

I designed Boros from the ground up — taking leveraged yield trading, with all its funding-rate and liquidation complexity, and making it legible enough to trade with confidence.

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Role

  • Product Design
  • UIUX
  • Branding
  • Product Logic
  • Project Management
  • $0 → $19.1BCumulative trading volume
  • 0 → 3,005Unique traders

AlphaGeo

Climate Intelligence · B2B SaaS

I led AlphaGeo’s product and visual direction — turning complex climate, geospatial, and real-asset data into decision tools investors and infrastructure stakeholders can act on.

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Role

  • Product Design
  • UIUX
  • Branding
  • Project Management

Select Clients

  • Lennar
  • Oaktree
  • Zurich Group
  • EQT
  • CapitaLand
  • MARA
  • ENGIE
  • G42
  • Green Street Advisors
  • BayWa
  • Cherre

End-to-End
Design Leadership

I work across product direction, UX architecture, interface design, brand systems and delivery — keeping the product coherent from the first decision to the final launch.

01.

Product Strategy & Direction

I define what to build and why — turning ambiguous goals into clear direction.

02.

Experience Architecture

I turn complex systems into flows and patterns people can navigate with ease.

03.

Brand & Interface Systems

I shape how the product looks, feels, and speaks — identity to interface.

04.

Delivery & Product Ownership

I take work from first concept to shipped product, hand in hand with engineering.

AI & Tools

Claude skills I design and share, and the tools I build to make design faster for clients, teams and everyday users.

AI Skills

Skill

Playable

One image of a robot, or any rigged 3D model, becomes a character you drive in the browser: walk, run, jump and light it up.

Demo

Shipwright

A parametric 1800s warship drawn from numbers: slide the hull, gun decks, masts and sails, randomise a new design, orbit it and export it as .glb.

Try it

Demo

Open House

A pop-up booklet of houses around the world on a 3D desk: open it, raise each house off the page, cut it open and take it apart.

Try it

Demo

Robots

3D robots that watch your cursor, or mirror your body, hands and face through your camera. Strike a pose, restyle it live and share your build.

Demo

Phone Evolution

Mobile phones from 1983 to 2026 on one desk: drag the timeline and each phone turns into the next, does what it could do in its day and comes apart layer by layer.

Try it

Skill

Neon Diagrams

Dark, interactive diagrams in one HTML file: teardowns, flows and charts with one accent colour.

Tools

Selected Consulting Work

Design consulting across DeFi, fintech, insurance, real estate, wine, architecture, community brands, and data products.

Architecture & Art

Before product design, I studied architecture — spatial logic, systems, narrative, and the relationship between people and complex environments.

That training still defines how I design today: I structure ambiguity, build mental models, and turn invisible systems into experiences people can navigate.

Let’s work together.

For product design, UX architecture, design systems, AI-assisted prototyping, or consulting work, get in touch.

April Zhu