David Chan

I bring strong technical expertise and more than 15 years of design experience across SaaS, fintech, and ecommerce. I've worked in startup (preferred), agency and enterprise environments.

Following Dieter Rams' "Less, but better" philosophy, I believe good design goes beyond aesthetics and should create better experiences.

I work to communicate design in more compelling ways than static mocks by delivering working software or creating prototypes.

Feel free to reach out or book time to chat.

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How are rents trending year over year?

How are rents trending this year?

How are concessions trending this year?

What is the average rent right now?

How are concessions trending year over year?

VTS AI Analyst

Empowering asset managers and brokers in their everyday decision-making, VTS AI Analyst provides market data-driven answers anywhere within the VTS platform.

Proposal AI

Save time by uploading your LOI to populate the proposal form.

or drag and drop

VTS Proposal AI

Saving brokers time while improving data integrity, Proposal AI automates filling out proposal forms by uploading documents.

VTS Design System

Improvements to the design system include introducing page layouts, streamlining redundant components and extending the design system to mobile.

Affinity for Outlook

An Outlook extension that allows users to manage deals directly from their inbox and receive relationship-driven insights from Affinity.

Affinity Data Importer Redesign

Reducing business costs, improving data integrity and improving the user experience of the Affinity Data Importer.

Case studies available, book a meeting.

Company History

Oct 2023 - Present

Staff Designer and Design Lead for the VTS's core products. Currently focused on platform-wide AI initiatives.

Oct 2022 - Oct 2023

Mentored designers in systems thinking and Figma, while leading and managing the design system for RBC's Consumer Banking group.

Dec 2020 - Oct 2022

Design Lead for Affinity's Platform, API and Integrations team. Work included Affinity Pathfinder and Salesforce for Affinity.

Oct 2018 - Oct 2019

Freelance Product and Web Designer.

Mar 2015 - Mar 2017

Worked as Design Lead for the Digital Optimization team and primarily worked on increasing conversion through analytics and AB testing across the CIBC website.

Mar 2013 - Oct 2014

One of two hybrid designer / developers who managed the Sony Canada website, one of the largest e-commerce sites in Canada at the time.

Full work history on LinkedIn.

Side Projects

Nike Run Club

Visual breakdown of my running data from 2010 to 2024.

View Data

Questrade Tracker

Personal investment tracking tool for Questrade that allows for analysis of trades, dividends, commissions, and other investment activities.

Try the Questrade Tracker Demo

Figma Helpers

An automation plugin that helps speed up tedious tasks and manage your Figma workflow. Actively used by over 1,000 designers.

Try Figma Helpers

SC2 Revealed

SC2 Revealed identifies professional StarCraft 2 players on the Battle.net ladder. At its peak, the website had over 20,000 monthly visitors.

Visit SC2 Revealed

Want to work together? Reach out.

Thoughts

The Stockdale Paradox

Navigating Challenges

Why the Nintendo 64 lost the console war

Cruising speed vs peak power

Want to chat? Book a meeting.