Product Designer
Luke Schenker
Product Designer & Builder @ SHRP
May 2026 - Present
Designing and shipping a social screentime app
Product Designer & Builder at SHRP. Designed and built the MVP in 2 months to test product-market fit; 5 beta testers reduced their social media use by 39% on average. Now in public beta on iOS and Android.
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Building AI infrastructure to ship an app solo
Designer & Architect. Enabled one-person company operation with a custom system of AI agents, shared knowledge and workflows, shipping a product in 5 months that would have taken me an estimated 18 to 24 months.
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2020 - 2025
Designing and building a smartphone operating system to treat phone overuse
Founder of Anew. Led design, research and engineering of Anew OS; a 30-day pilot study achieved a 49% reduction in daily user anxiety. Managed 6 Carnegie Mellon master's interns across design, research and engineering.
2020 - 2021
I started by designing an experimental, design-centered IDE for tweaking how everything in your digital smartphone environment works.
Alongside that, I sought funding from VCs, the NSF and the Shuttleworth Fellowship, and pitched research proposals to scientists at the National Institutes of Health (NIMH & NIDA).
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2022
Pilot Product & User Study
The first version of Anew was tested in partnership with Carnegie Mellon University.
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2023 - 2024
Commercializing Product
Based on the pilot’s findings, Anew was taken into high fidelity and full production.
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2023 - 2024
Hosting Master's Internships
Anew hosted 6 master's internships from recent CMU MIIPS graduates, and one undergraduate internship.
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2025
Book on Smartphone Mental Health Mechanics
A 255-page deep dive into the research, frameworks, and design strategy behind Anew.
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2018 - 2020
Redesigning Map Maker, the tool that turns raw AV data into self-driving maps
Senior Interaction Designer at Uber ATG. Redesigned Map Maker's input schema and core annotation workflows, increasing the mapping team's overall efficiency by 27%.
Reusable Geometries
Drawing efficiency improved by up to 60% across polyline map features.
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Improved Visualization and Annotation
Creation efficiency of mission-critical map annotation increased by 70%.
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Drastically Improved Ease-Of-Use
Redesigned and unified input schema increased overall output efficiency by 27%.
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2016 - 2017
Preventing costly trading errors and introducing UX processes to a finance company
UX Designer at John Hancock Financial. Established design practice from scratch, as 1 of 3 first design hires, by teaching and embedding UX research and design best practices into PM and engineering workflows.
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