About

Howdy! I'm Ray Yuen, a designer based in San Francisco.

I've worked at startups like NextLesson, medium‑sized enterprises like Quantcast, and industry leaders like Salesforce and The Pokemon Company International where I've successfully launched products and design systems and run design teams.

Now

Working at Salesforce on events and designing characters!
Building an Etsy biz with AI generated art.
Learning conversational Cantonese.
Tinkering with 11ty for building simple websites.

Updated: Feb 2025

Past

Participated in Art of the Game, an NBA All Star art show.
Participated in Inktober!
Illustrated 2 children's books, Tiger Tiger and Monkey Mo.
Drew caricatures at Six Flags Great Adventure.
Made Darth Pickle, where I host code projects
Studied Graphic Design at Rochester Institute of Technology.
Grew up in NJ, lived in Rochester and Brooklyn.
Can solve a Rubik's Cube >1m.
Pandemic hobby: sewing dopp kits.
I finally beat the game Sekiro.

Things Making Me Happy

FromSoft

Shogun Showdown

agave plants

wimmelbooks

Sawayama Solitare

Procreate

Pokemon Emerald Rogue

Chastity Belt

Obsidian MD

black cats

neon signs

Figma

Sekiro

noodles

iPad Mini

bookbinding

Evergoods

italian subs

Vespas

Balatro

Midjourney