Michelle Dong
⟡ Product designer based in NYC, focused on emerging tech
⟡ Leading design for Merlin Bird ID's 7M+ monthly active users. Previously at Amazon Alexa
FEATURED WORK
eBird Track Editing
Led end-to-end mobile design for track editing and best-practice distance, 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 personalized location recommendations to help casual birders discover nearby birding spots for a specific species. Currently in beta.
Coming soon
our shared kitchen
Personal project experimenting with Figma Make and generative AI to build a recipe sharing app for friends.
Coming soonADDITIONAL WORK
Merlin Explore Search
Shipped improvements to Merlin Bird ID's search functionality across iOS and Android to over 7.5M monthly active users, reducing search-related support tickets by over 80%. Released summer 2025.
eBird Projects
Designed new observation types and interaction flows to achieve feature parity between web and mobile, enabling better data collection for 20+ existing community science partnerships. Released spring 2025
