David Chan

I bring strong technical abilities and more than 15 years of design experience across SaaS, fintech and e-commerce. I've worked across startup, agency and enterprise.

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

Founding Designer / Design Engineer at settled.ai during the day, exploring game development and 3D printing at night.

Work + Play

2026 - Present (WIP)

Pixel UI and Camera

A digital camera built from off-the-shelf parts: a Raspberry Pi, NoIR camera module, and touchscreen LCD display, housed in a custom CAD-designed and 3D-printed enclosure. Designed and built the full software stack — live viewfinder with focus peaking, physical controls and performance tuning.

2026 - Present

Settled.ai

Founding Designer and Design Engineer building an AI-native dispute resolution platform for legal professionals.

2025 - Present (WIP)

Origin

A modern terminal replacement built with Electron, xterm.js, and React. Origin blends the standard shell experience with interactive UI elements, smart commands, searchable history, pinnable commands and clickable file/directory links.

2023 - 2025

VTS

Staff Designer and Design Lead for the company's core products including VTS AI and the design system. In addition to my core responsibilities, I also made over 400 Github contributions towards design debt and the design system over the course of 2 years.

Figma Helpers is a set of automated actions that speed up and help manage your workflow. Used by over 10,000 designers.

2022 - 2023

RBC

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

2020 - 2022

Affinity

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

SC2 Revealed identifies professional StarCraft 2 players on the Battle.net ladder. The website peaked at over 20,000 monthly visitors and is still used by the community today.