Lennon Cheng | Principal Product Designer, System Thinker and Storyteller

📮 [email protected] / YouTube / **LinkedIn** / Substack / Instagram

Hello

hi hi, I am Lennon 🙋🏻‍♂️ a queer immigrant from Shanghai, now living in Amsterdam.

As a creative, I’ve worked on and played with a wildly mixed bag of things: from digital products and web apps to brand, podcast, exhibitions, photography, events and more.

Currently, I am a Product Designer at Remote.

You can find me:

sharing my tiny adventures on YouTube
mumbling my thoughts on Substack
posting graded photos on Instagram

Experience

Current

Designing Global HR Experience at Remote

Past

2022-25 Led AI discovery, search, and product architecture at Canva
2020-22 Tinkered on Design System at Xero
2018-20 Shaped web apps, brand, and interaction design at Today
2015-18 Designed web apps and digital experiences at NetEngine

🔗 See my full experience on LinkedIn

ex-Canva

I wrapped up an (almost) 4-year journey at Canva at the end of 2025.

In 2022, I started in the Search Experience team, where I helped establish the product-wide search and filtering patterns with Easel, the design system team at Canva.

Throughout the years, I collaborated directly with the founder and senior leaders across a dozen teams to:

Embrace the wave of AI and rethink the role of search and filtering
Establish Canva’s AI discovery pattern across the homepage and Editor — combining search and generative AI (patented) to help users find the right creative starting point
Refresh Canva’s global IA to support a more intuitive and scalable product surface
Simplify mobile experiences for clarity, speed, and everyday ease of use
Explore how documentation and prototyping could supercharge how we work

I departed the company as a Principal Product Designer in search for my next adventure.

I ran a workshop with the Canva community exploring the newly launched Canva AI and Canva Code features at So-fi Stadium, LA during the 2025 Canva Create Launch

Cats

Of course, you are here for Chipper and Sesame, my two rescued cats. I do not blame you :)

Chipper and Sesame are friends usually for a good chunk of the day. The rest of the time though, they are archnemesis.

Chipper is a classic ginger. He knows he’s adorable so he demands your pats but with a lot of affection and warmth. He looks slightly chunky because he doesn’t really have a neck, but he’s in fact a small and light cat.

Sesame is a swift and nimble cow cat. She’s curious but slightly timid. She wouldn’t show up until you have spent a decent amount of hours in the house. She likes to ask for pats and jump onto your lap before you go to bed.

👀 Currently noodling on…

@orange.juicerice

Jan 2026 — now

I started 📹 orange juice rice — a YouTube channel exploring storytelling, colour grading in moving pictures, and documenting my new adventures moving to Europe.

[☝️ My favourite episode yet](https://youtu.be/imjqBcwR0vM?si=lPHfJHvCAXTcNpNP)

☝️ My favourite episode yet

brand

🔗 Visit the channel