Nate Tran
Résumé
White pampas plumes against deep green hillside foliage, photographed by Nate Tran

Product Designer + AI Builder

Imperfection,by design.

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Design direction.
AI-directed builds.

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San Jose, California
Photography by Nate

A practice, always in progress.Design / Build / Review

No design ships perfect.
I design products, direct AI
through the build, and keep
iterating toward a better version.

I’m Nate. Photography taught me to look closely. Running a business taught me to care about what happens after the first impression.

A little more about me

Selected work.

Real products and service systems.
The decisions behind them.

Stellar dashboard with two daily priorities, weighted tasks, and habits
Product design + AI-directed build

Plan what actually fits.

A task planner that makes daily capacity visible. Two priorities keep the important work in view, while weighted tasks show how much the day can hold.

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Stella Booth website with its brand, photography, and booking packages
Service design + operations

From inquiry to invoice.

A photographer-run business shaped from both sides of the booking. Brand, published pricing, and an AI-directed CRM build connect the first impression with the work that follows.

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Original Explorite activity discovery prototype on a phone
UX research + interaction design

Find a time. Go together.

A travel-coordination project that moved from browsing activities to finding a time friends could agree on. Research informed a no-account crew-voting flow.

Research prototype / Live PWARead case study
Three core projects. A few further explorations.View all work

The person behind the work

The tools change.
The eye stays.

From editing portraits to reviewing a product build, I look for the detail that makes the experience feel considered. The tools change, but I still have to decide what’s worth keeping.

Meet Nate