Design shapes how we experience everyday life, yet in technology, the goal is often to make it invisible, something we barely notice. In San Francisco, design extends beyond the products people build into the communities that form around them. From workspaces to independent creative scenes, technology creates new ways for people to connect, exchange ideas, and build a sense of belonging around a shared vision of what’s next.

Chi Quách is a product designer, creative, and community builder originally from Saigon, Vietnam, whose work spans the full range of how important good design can be. Hosting workshops with UW, Stanford, UCLA, and RMIT, and founded Design Meetup, she focuses on building spaces for designers to connect and learn from each other.

What makes her broader creative practice compelling is how she navigates across various routes. Her personal projects, her Design Meetup community initiative, and her college workshops all reflect someone who sees design as a way of building relationships between people and the things they use. The community dimension of her work is not separate from the product work. It is informed by the same instinct, that design only matters when it actually connects with the person it was made for.

She’s building a practice that understands design as more than craft. It’s about communication, and community, and care for the person on the other end of whatever you are making. That perspective is rare, and it shows up clearly in everything she has worked on.