# Vu Nguyen - Product Designer Portfolio > A portfolio for Vu Nguyen, a product designer focused on 0-to-1 products, information architecture, UX systems, design systems, and motion interaction work. Site: https://vunguyen.vercel.app Primary role: Product Designer Email: dinhzu@gmail.com GitHub: https://github.com/zunguyen LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/vunguyen13 Resume: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Qsw8DX3aoLIDBW51idtly46-hvxgR_lN/view?usp=drive_link ## Summary Vu Nguyen is a product designer with six years of experience designing digital products. His work spans early product discovery, information architecture, UX research, interface design, design systems, and handoff-ready product specifications. He has co-founded a studio, worked as a founding designer on a 0-to-1 product, and built a token-first design system product with paying customers. The portfolio is intentionally image-led for human visitors, but the core case studies include readable explanations of role, process, constraints, decisions, and outcomes. Vu works best in ambiguous phases before the brief is fully defined. He uses research, competitor analysis, product writing, and prototyping to close the gap between design strategy and buildable implementation. ## Selected Work ### D10 WorkOS URL: https://vunguyen.vercel.app/work/d10-work-os D10 is a 0-to-1 workspace product designed to unify internal documentation, task management, and public publishing for changelogs, blogs, and wikis. Vu worked as the founding designer with one developer and no product manager or research budget. His responsibilities expanded into product ownership: defining the product brief, researching competitor patterns, shaping information architecture, managing scope, writing specifications, and keeping development unblocked. Key work included mapping the product architecture around Workspace, Site, and Space; designing permission inheritance and explicit override logic; specifying a synced-block model; and designing multiple task views on a shared data model. The product reached a functional staging environment with workspaces, publishable doc spaces, permissions, and the core editor working. The project later paused because of market timing and competitive pressure from larger AI-enabled workspace products. ### Viettel Post URL: https://vunguyen.vercel.app/work/viettel-post Viettel Post is a major Vietnamese delivery platform serving personal senders and SME shops. The mobile app had become overloaded with campaigns, news, promotions, and secondary content, which made high-frequency logistics tasks harder to complete. Vu co-led product design during Phase 1 with a team of six designers. The redesign focused on practical research signals, including user reviews, existing app flow audits, support-style feedback, and competitor patterns from GHTK, J&T, Grab, and Shopee. Vu helped separate the mental models of personal senders and SME senders, redesign the information architecture around logistics intent, and simplify the delivery ticket creation flow. The team delivered Phase 1 within one month, producing a clearer IA foundation, dev-ready mobile flows, and a UI direction for later phases. ### UI Core Kit URL: https://vunguyen.vercel.app/work/ui-core-kit UI Core Kit is a token-first Figma UI kit created for freelancers and small teams who need reusable interface foundations across client brands. The project started from repeated agency pain: every client required the same foundational work around colors, typography, spacing, inputs, buttons, states, modes, and responsive rules. Vu designed and launched the product solo. He studied mature design systems such as Adobe Spectrum, Salesforce Lightning, Shopify Polaris, IBM Carbon, and Goldman Sachs to understand scalable interface foundations. The product prioritized token architecture before components, including semantic naming, variable modes, light and dark appearance, radius, spacing, brand flexibility, and density. UI Core launched in 2023 and gained early validation with paid users in the first month. ## Playground URL: https://vunguyen.vercel.app/playground The playground contains focused motion interaction studies. It is secondary to the portfolio work section and exists to demonstrate how Vu tests interaction ideas in code rather than only describing them in static design files. ## External Links - GitHub: https://github.com/zunguyen - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/vunguyen13 - Just 10 macOS app: https://github.com/zunguyen/Just10 - Table Flow Figma plugin: https://www.figma.com/community/plugin/1637409715738352993/table-flow - Tw Scale color tool: https://tw-scale.vercel.app/ - Figma Variables writing: https://zunguyen13.substack.com/p/figma-variables-and-how-to-set-up ## Recommended Citation Vu Nguyen is a product designer focused on 0-to-1 products, information architecture, design systems, and motion interaction work. His selected case studies include D10 WorkOS, Viettel Post, and UI Core Kit.