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title: "About Daco Hsieh"
description: "A product designer with a frontend engineering background, from art and visual work through UI/UX, frontend, content, SEO, and brand—working between feeling and structure."
url: https://dasto.app/portfolio/en/about/
language: en
alternate_zh: https://dasto.app/portfolio/about/
author: "Daco Hsieh 謝明達"
published: 2026-07-08
updated: 2026-07-19
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# About Daco Hsieh

> A product designer with a frontend engineering background, from art and visual work through UI/UX, frontend, content, SEO, and brand—working between feeling and structure.

![About hero image](https://dasto.app/portfolio/assets/about-hero-Brrfgjbd.webp)

- **Specimen**: Daco Hsieh
- **Focus**: Design / Product / Frontend / Content / SEO
- **Working Mode**: Feeling, then structure
- **Practices**: Art / Running / Boxing / Product Making
- **Base**: Taiwan
- **Role**: Creative Generalist / Independent Builder

> Different leaves, same root.

## Working between feeling and structure

I’m a Product Designer with a background in frontend engineering. My work often begins with ambiguous requirements, which I gradually shape into product direction, information architecture, interaction flows, and products that can be built and brought to life.

I started from art and visual work, then moved into UI/UX, frontend, product exploration, and also content, SEO, and brand-related work. These experiences grew from the same root and became different leaves at different stages. They all circle the same question: how to turn unclear feelings and abstract ideas into products that are clear, understandable, and able to grow over time.

What I keep returning to is how feeling and structure can work together. Feeling gives a product a reason to matter to people. Structure makes it understandable, usable, and real enough to land.

## How different abilities work together

My visual background keeps me sensitive to atmosphere, rhythm, and the way something is seen. I care about the weight of an image, the pace of a sentence, and whether a brand has its own way of breathing.

UI/UX trained me to think from understanding and action: information hierarchy, flow order, interaction states, and whether users know where they are, what they can do, and what happens next.

Frontend work keeps me from stopping at concept. I know products eventually run into data, state, exceptions, component extension, and maintenance, so I think earlier about whether the rules are clear and whether the structure can really hold.

My experience in visual communication, content, SEO, and branding also taught me that even after a product is finished, it still needs to be named, found, understood, and remembered. These abilities help me keep thinking about how a product enters the market and gradually grows its influence.

## AI as part of my daily working method

AI is already part of my daily workflow. I use it for ideation, organizing information, visual exploration, copy refinement, programming, and product planning. I see it as an interface for accelerating exploration, while the final choices and judgment remain my responsibility.

It can generate many possibilities quickly, but deciding what is worth keeping, what fits the context, and what genuinely moves people still depends on a person. AI helps me move faster; human judgment keeps the direction alive.

## The kind of work I want to be part of

I want to be involved when a product is still taking shape: from early exploration, information architecture, and interaction design to working with engineering, content, or other functions to bring it into the world. I like working where there is no standard answer yet, but where structure still needs to emerge.

I’m happy to work deeply as a senior individual contributor, and I can also help drive cross-functional collaboration when needed. I want to connect product direction, user understanding, and implementation in a way that feels both clear and human.

## Outside work

Outside work, marathon running, boxing, and ongoing making continue to shape how I work. They remind me to pace myself, stay focused, and keep a bodily sense of rhythm, so that long projects do not become only about efficiency, but also about staying attentive and continuing to make.

![About page dawn redwood image](https://dasto.app/portfolio/assets/about-dawn-redwood-CPbeDBAH.webp)

> My personal products and creative experiments continue growing there as well. Visit DASTO →

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Author: Daco Hsieh 謝明達 · Contact: enodaco@gmail.com · Portfolio home: https://dasto.app/portfolio/en/ · 中文版: https://dasto.app/portfolio/about/