Product designer who ships. Industrial design first, MHCI+D at UW, Seattle now (the rain and I have an understanding). I design the thing, then my AI agents and I build the thing. They've earned their spot on the team page.
Design side: malikzhang.com. Builder side: you're looking at it.
Portfolio · Product design and industrial design case studies, plus a few things you can poke.
FigBuild 2026, 1st place · Won with NeuraLyfe. We take those.
Before software · I designed physical things: an emotion-sensing paintbrush that lets autistic children say how they feel without saying anything, an underwater drone that recovers abandoned fishing nets without putting a diver in the water, and robots that collect trash and clean floors after big events, because someone has to and it doesn't have to be a person.
Locant · A free Mac app for people who build software with AI coding assistants like Claude Code, Cursor, or Codex. Normally, when a button or screen looks wrong, you describe it in words or paste a screenshot and hope the assistant guesses the right part of the code. With Locant you press a hotkey, click the thing you mean, type what should change, and the assistant receives that exact element along with the name it has in the code. It fixes the right thing on the first try. Open source, nothing leaves your machine. → Repo · Download
Moti: Plan · An AI-native planner: feed it chaos, get back a living, timeline-aware plan. Designed and shipped solo in two weeks, with Claude and Codex on the build; SLM + LLM under the hood. → App Store · Case study
Oryne · Catch a thought by voice or text before it ghosts you. On-device intelligence titles your Whispers and drifts related ones together into currents, and everything syncs through your own private iCloud. Privacy is the default, not a setting. Your 3am thoughts stay yours. → App Store · Case study
Inkwork · A styled-QR studio with a point of view. Designed, built, and shipped solo. Go press the cube. It's satisfying.
CalmMouse · Magic Mouse UX fixes for macOS, born from pure daily rage: the page should not scroll every time you click. Free, open source, installable via Homebrew. → Repo
Agents build with me, so I build for agents. It's a loop, and it compounds.
Malik OS · The operating system my agents run on, and the reason every app above got shipped instead of half-shipped. A kernel for how I work, skills for the design side (design engineering, PRDs, user research, storytelling, Figma conventions), agents with actual job titles (design reviewer, design engineer pair, user researcher, PM sparring partner), and a memory that means nobody re-explains me every Monday. Runs on its own runtime layer so the chassis can change without the judgment changing. Private, because it knows too much about me.
product-film · An agent skill that turns raw screen recordings into scored product films. AVFoundation pipeline, no ffmpeg, no editor, no tears.
screen-recording · Script-driven product capture across the iOS Simulator, websites, and Figma prototypes, with a staging protocol and measured-time auto-zoom. Works with Claude Code, Codex, and Cursor.
job-agent · My job hunt, but as a pipeline: it scans ATS boards, scores roles, tailors cover letters, and applies, with an autonomy dial so I decide how much it does on its own. How I run it now: OpenClaw drives it from my phone, it scans, ranks, and fills every application in a parked browser, and I do the last step myself: read the form, fix what needs fixing, click submit. The agent never submits. No shell, allowlisted commands, at-most-once execution. Also private, for obvious reasons.
Basketball and bouldering, home cooking (Asian flavors, recipes optional), long night drives, and quiet photography: stills from travel and everyday light.
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