Michelle Dong
⟡ Product designer at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, shaping how 7M+ people experience Merlin Bird ID. Previously at Amazon Alexa.
FEATURED WORK
eBird Track Editing
Led end-to-end mobile design for track editing, improving data quality for one of the world's largest participatory science projects. Released spring 2025.
Amazon Alexa
Designed a multimodal framework for collecting customer sentiment across Alexa's voice and screen experiences.
Merlin Places
Designing Merlin's first feature to help casual birders discover where to go birding. Shipping spring 2026.
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Merlin Explore
Redesigned Merlin's Explore screen to stay accurate as users changed locations and searched for birds beyond their filters, fixing a long-standing disconnect between what the app showed and what users expected.
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