Mars Tan
Senior Design Engineer at InstaLILY AI.
A good product is both crafted and built, and someone has to hold both at once. I think of design engineering as bringing taste into engineering.
At InstaLILY, I iterate on prototyping workflows that turn emerging ideas into shipped experiences, evolve a design system shared across humans and agents, and ship enterprise-grade agentic workflows for the physical goods economy.
Before this, I studied Arts, Technology, and the Business of Innovation at USC Iovine and Young Academy.
Projects
- Mars Universe BankA personal-finance OS.2026
- Maimai Per RoundArcade pricing across NYC and NJ.2026
- NessieLaunch video for Nessie Labs (YC 2025).2025
- AI AgentsAnimated agentic workflow.2024
- Diffusion-GANReproducing Diffusion-GAN. CMU 11-785.2023
- GroupooLaunch video co-animated.2022
- Motion ReelYears of animation work.2021
- AARDVARCUSC syllabus platform, since acquired by Salesforce.2020
- Lucky BallA simple p5.js crawl machine game.2019
- Japanese NotesMy JLPT notebook, in code.2018
- Portfolio SiteEarlier projects can be found here.2017