Nicholas Kao
AI Product Designer
Solo designer on four internal products at Apple, gathering the requirements, designing the product, and implementing the frontend.
Innovation Award, 2026, for taking a product end to end, from the problem to a working frontend in production.
Work
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AI Collaboration Platform
Design the org’s first multiplayer AI product, where a team runs a manufacturing analysis together and builds on each other’s work.
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Environmental Reporting
Design how teams see the environmental impact of the materials they’ve chosen, using data collected from dozens of systems.
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Manufacturing File Approvals
Modernized a legacy bill-of-materials system where vendors submit manufacturing files and Apple’s approval sends the part to mass production.
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Org Site
Rebuilt and own the internal platform where the manufacturing design org finds its tools, resources, education, and culture in one place.