Ordinal
University rankings, read against each other. A band like 101–150 counts at its middle in the composite, and gaps stay blank.
3,281 universities and 9,051 published placements in the build of 18 Oct 2026. Live since July 2026.
Yilin (Gevin) Zhu UX designer
Microsoft (Xbox) and Tencent internships, 2026 MSc UX Design, Wilfrid Laurier
I design software for complex, technical work.
01 Ordinal Live since July 2026. 3,281 universities in the build of 18 Oct 2026.
Work
CardCompare
Canadian credit cards, valued on what the person reading actually spends.
6,185 values from 946 source URLs, as of 7 Oct 2026.
Senior Mode
One brand language at three densities. Only the senior surface is enlarged.
39 screens: 27 senior, 8 adult child, 4 clinician. A redesign exercise on JD Health's public app from my 2026 Tencent internship, not commissioned by JD Health.
ThinkFirst
A writing tool that splits an assignment into timed phases so teachers can see the process.
WLU Product Design Competition 2026. Built in Figma Make over 218 versions, 9–13 Mar 2026.
Console Interaction Study
A comparison of Xbox and NEX Playground, with two prototypes.
TimeFold
A phone app prototype for keeping memories: daily capture, chapters, a yearly recap and a room for replaying them in VR.
Course project, team of five. 36 screens in seven flows, shown in a web shell that steps through each flow. Built in Figma Make.
Brdger
A career platform for new graduates: resume tools, role matching, an application tracker and warm introductions.
Team project in Figma Make. A teammate wrote the brief and the information architecture and supplied the logo and palette. 110 of the 119 prompts in the build log are mine. The landing page numbers are labelled as goals, because none of them had been reached.
How I build with Claude
Product direction, design decisions, the design system and the data policy are mine. Research legwork, data capture and code were done with Claude (AI) under that direction.
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1,833
CardCompare data corrections, each written only after I approved it.
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125,248
renders checked by Ordinal's scale-honesty script, with 0 failures. Run by Claude on the build of 3,296 universities.
Architecture taught me the constraint. UX taught me the person.
Five years of architectural studies at the University of Toronto were five years of drawing systems other people had to build: sets that had to stay consistent, circulation that had to survive real feet, drawings a contractor could argue with. Software turned out to be the same job with a faster feedback loop.
I like the problems where the interface has to answer to something physical underneath it: a medication schedule, or a controller in someone's hands.
Currently: MSc User Experience Design at Wilfrid Laurier, with systems engineering coursework alongside it.
Education
- Wilfrid Laurier University MSc, User Experience Design 2025–2027
- Harvard University ALM, Systems Engineering, pre-admission. CSCI S-188 completed. 2026–now
- University of Toronto HBA, Architectural Studies. Major in Visual Studies (Design), minor in Visual Studies (Art). Graduated with Distinction. 2020–2025
Certifications
- AI Professional, UX Design Professional, IT Support Professional
- Neo4j
- Certified Professional, Graph Data Science
- University of Toronto
- Sustainability of the Built Environment, Global Studies of the Built Environment
- Government of Canada
- TCPS 2, Ethical Conduct for Research