/ about

I'm Guo — a product designer who thinks like a founder.

8+ years in SaaS, AI, and web. Independent and fully remote from Taiwan (GMT+8), working with startups in Hong Kong, Australia, and Japan.

Cian-Yu Guo, Senior Product Designer

Driven by design,
grounded in business thinking.

Driven by design,
grounded in business thinking.

Im Guo, a Senior Product Designer focused on SaaS, AI, and complex product systems.
Ive always been interested in what makes people stay, engage, or buy. That curiosity led me to product design, where I combine design with business thinking.
Today, I help teams turn unclear direction into structured decisions, so products move faster and scale with clarity.

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years in SaaS, App & Web product design

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markets worked across: TW, AU, PH, HK, JP

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Completed Projects

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Enterprise Users Impacted

/ How I think

Three habits that change what ships.

Not a process — the way I approach the work, and who'll vouch for it.

Business fluency

Outcome standards

Dev-ready delivery

You won't have to translate your business to me.

At imBee I had a direct line to the CEO, sales, and marketing, and sat in on revenue and retention reviews.

So when you say activation matters more than signups, I'm already there. No industry primer. You describe the problem in business terms — I come back with the design consequence.

She consistently prioritizes users while aligning design decisions with business goals, and can translate complex requirements into intuitive experiences.

Ken

Co-founder & CEO @ imBee

/ How I think

Three habits that change what ships.

Not a process — the way I approach the work, and who'll vouch for it.

Business fluency

Outcome standards

Dev-ready delivery

You won't have to translate your business to me.

At imBee I had a direct line to the CEO, sales, and marketing, and sat in on revenue and retention reviews.

So when you say activation matters more than signups, I'm already there. No industry primer. You describe the problem in business terms — I come back with the design consequence.

She consistently prioritizes users while aligning design decisions with business goals, and can translate complex requirements into intuitive experiences.

Ken

Co-founder & CEO @ imBee

/ Career so far

Four markets, eight years, one question.

Four markets, eight years, one question.

2025 — now

Taiwan

Independent Product Designer

Projects and retainers with startups and growing teams in Taiwan, Hong Kong, Australia, and Japan.

2021 — 2025

Hong Kong · Remote

Senior Product Designer at imBee.

AI Assistant, AI kiosk, omnichannel inbox, native payment, design system. Four years fully remote.

2020 — 2021

Taipei, Taiwan

UI/UX Designer, Yao Jin Technology.

Core flows and design system for web and mobile.

2018 — 2020

Makati, Philippines

Web Designer, B2B consultancy.

PMS, ERP, and CRM systems, on a team spanning Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Vietnam, and Taiwan — and my first HTML and CSS, written to help the engineers ship them.

2015 — 2017

Australia

Freelance Graphic Designer.

Branding for local businesses — my first time working directly with owners.

/ Where this came from

Business curiosity came before design.

Business curiosity came before design.

I got into design because I wanted to know why people buy.

Studying visual communication, I was never satisfied with "make it look good." I read business magazines more than design blogs. One article broke down why Starbucks took off in Taiwan while ordinary chains didn't — and the answer wasn't the coffee. It was the experience economy: people pay for how something makes them feel.

I went looking for the discipline that designs experiences, found UX, and took the obvious path. Ten years later, I'm still asking the same question.

/ Off the clock

Travel, old architecture, and seven sports.

Travel, old architecture, and seven sports.

Everywhere I go I study the same thing: why do people love this product, this brand, this place? The wider my view of how people live and choose, the better I design for them.

Places

4+ years abroad, two more as a digital nomad. Now based between Kaohsiung and Chiayi, reading old houses for the economics behind the aesthetics.

Taiwan

Philippines

Hong Kong

Australia

Sports

I collect sports the way some people collect books. Every new one is a new market to be curious about.

Muay Thai

Golf

Yoga

Weight training

Badminton

Pilates

Reading

The habit that started with business magazines never stopped.

Strategy

Consumer behavior

Brand histories

Experience economy

Status

Taking new projects

Engagements

Projects · Retainers · UX Audit

Based

Kaohsiung, Taiwan · GMT+8

Full-time

Open to remote senior roles for the right team

I blend product thinking with crisp UI craft to drive adoption and lighten ops. I work async across time zones with clear docs, design systems, and tight feedback loops, shipping fast without the chaos.

guocianyu@gmail.com

@2026 Cian-Yu, Guo All rights reserved.

Interested in working together?

Whether you have a project in mind or just want another product perspective, I'd be happy to talk.

I blend product thinking with crisp UI craft to drive adoption and lighten ops. I work async across time zones with clear docs, design systems, and tight feedback loops, shipping fast without the chaos.

guocianyu@gmail.com

@2026 Cian-Yu, Guo All rights reserved.

Interested in working together?

Whether you have a project in mind or just want another product perspective, I'd be happy to talk.

I blend product thinking with crisp UI craft to drive adoption and lighten ops. I work async across time zones with clear docs, design systems, and tight feedback loops, shipping fast without the chaos.

guocianyu@gmail.com

@2026 Cian-Yu, Guo All rights reserved.

Interested in working together?

Whether you have a project in mind or just want another product perspective, I'd be happy to talk.

I blend product thinking with crisp UI craft to drive adoption and lighten ops. I work async across time zones with clear docs, design systems, and tight feedback loops, shipping fast without the chaos.

guocianyu@gmail.com

@2026 Cian-Yu, Guo All rights reserved.

Interested in working together?

Whether you have a project in mind or just want another product perspective, I'd be happy to talk.