Rares Cimpean
Is a product designer & emerging design engineer, shaping products with the help of agentic tools, turning ideas into working products & prototypes. With a decade of experience across startups, studios, and global brands, such as Mymind, NASA, Prime, eBay, SoundCloud, Verizon and more.
Selected Work · 2023 - 2026
Mymind · Lead Product Designer
Worked on Mymind across platforms, at the intersection of AI, memory, and interaction design. Turned a complex knowledge system into an experience that feels effortless, delightful, and quietly valuable each time people return to what they saved.
Semplice · Lead Product Designer
Evolved Semplice into a more capable, creative environment for designers building on the web. I led product systems and visual craft together across the editor, creating flexible systems that support creative precision without flattening individual expression.
StepApp · Design Engineer
Turned a long-standing interest in iOS app development into a fully working product by designing and building StepApp with Codex. This project really became my first end-to-end dive into design engineering, where design and development evolved together.
HOVS · Lead Design Partner
Partnered across various products, and digital experiences at HOVS, from early direction and ambiguity through production. Helped with strategy on products, systems thinking & hands-on craft across projects for Semplice, Mymind, Carbonmade, and NASA.
Design Archive · 2023 - 2026
Semplice · Website Awards
While working on the product at Semplice, I was also involved in curating the Semplice Weekly Showcase, and Semplice Awards, below are the 2023 and 2024 websites that we designed for the Semplice yearly awards.
Mymind · Custom App Icons
Had the opportunity to design some pretty unique custom 3D app icons for the Mymind catalogue, below are a few of my all time favorites, these were usually released with major features/app improvements as a little treat.
