I design the parts of software where money and records have to be right.

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ALLEN KANG

Senior Product Designer

Toronto · 8 years

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“Allen has this rare ability to zoom from the tiniest UI detail all the way out to cross-product systems thinking without missing a beat.”
Natalie Freckleton · Director of Product ManagementFour more colleagues

Try a redesign

A live slice of my cancer care redesign. Pick a stage.

Where patients are waiting

Illustrative data

106 of 175 patients in active treatment are past their target date.

Diagnosis10 of 12
Neoadjuvant chemo34 of 67
Surgery8 of 19
Adjuvant chemo6 of 12
Radiation48 of 65
15+ days late8-14 days1-7 daysOn trackSee the full redesign

Selected work

All work

  1. Aplos (now Velora) · Senior Product Designer · 2025 to 2026

    Aplos × Keela: Connecting CRM and Accounting for Nonprofits

    The first feature two merged companies shipped together: a data sync that turned out to be a trust problem.

    12finance managers interviewed, which reframed a data sync as a trust problem

  2. Interactive

    Aplos (now Velora) · Senior Product Designer · 2025

    Transaction Workflows: The Feature That Was Causing Churn

    One payment can be a donation, a gift and a ticket at once. The product couldn't record that, and it was our top churn driver.

    70%fewer categorization support tickets in the first month

  3. Keela, then Aplos · Lead, then Senior Product Designer · 2024 to 2026

    Orchid: A Design System Born From a Merger

    Three products, 340+ components, and three teams who didn't choose each other. One shared system.

    340+components brought into one shared library

  4. Keela · Product Designer · 2021

    Automation for Nonprofits: When the Real Obstacle Is Fear

    A no-code automation builder where the hardest design problem was fear, not complexity.

    13%ARR increase, 30% adoption across 355 orgs

  5. Interactive

    Aplos (now Velora) · Raisely · Senior Product Designer · 2026

    Fee Opt-In: Winning the Moment Donors Change Their Mind

    An A/B test on the moment a donor edits their fee. The winning design took opt-in from 75% to 92%.

    75% → 92%Donation fee opt-in, A/B tested

Data visualization, interactive

Dashboards I designed, rebuilt as working versions.

  1. Interactive

    MyJourney · UX/UI Designer (part-time) · 2019 to 2022

    Cancer Care Dashboards, Revisited

    Dashboards for clinicians tracking cancer patients and for the teams running cancer conferences, and what I would have done differently: four interactive redesigns and one system-level fix.

    4dashboard screens rebuilt as working redesigns you can try

  2. Interactive

    Keela · Lead Product Designer · 2024

    Keela Contacts: A Record That Says What to Do Next

    The contact record a fundraiser opens before every call, redesigned to show what changed and what to do about it. Includes a working version of the design.

Between two worlds

I’m a builder and a translator. Most of my work happens where two sides don’t share a language yet.

Fine art and Product design

Trained in pencil, watercolour and oil before Figma.

Where it started

Korean and English

Built the bilingual script reader a forty-person musical rehearsed with.

Toronto Yuwol

Design and Engineering

Prototype in code, and review pull requests with engineers.

Orchid

Software and The people it forgets

Design for accountants, clinicians and donors who never asked for software.

Transaction Workflows

Built end to end

Playground

Products I designed and shipped myself, from research to release.

Live app

Mobile App

ARND

A map-first app for the city's small shows: buskers, pop-ups, and small-venue sets. Started as a concept, now a working app running on live curated Toronto listings, in beta at arnd.app.

Live app

Internal Tool

Toronto Yuwol

Internal tooling for a bilingual musical company of forty: scheduling and attendance, a Korean-English script reader used daily, and a bill splitter for a company that shares its costs.

Side Project

Forkestrate

I partnered with a PM and two engineers to build an AI cooking app from zero to MVP in under three months. It also taught me how to design for AI before it hit my day job.

Off the clock

I’m an optimist. Optimism is a design tool: it’s how you get people to believe a better version is possible, then go build it.

  • On stage in a 40-person musical this August, 350 tickets sold, running on apps I built.

  • Building for the arts scene: Toronto Yuwol, ARND and ArtsGaze.

  • Grew up around cooks and musicians. Most of my ideas start there.

  • Ran a half-marathon on my own.

  • Raised $1,000 for SickKids Hospital.

  • A daily streak for years: French, now chess.

More about me

That’s the show.

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