Hi, I'm Lizzie :)

Design is my second act. I spent two years in digital marketing for PR and fashion houses before I switched, and I still make content for 100K+ followers. That background is my advantage: fashion gave me a sharp eye for what feels current, and content taught me how attention is earned, held, and converted. I design products with both.

I'm a product designer and design engineer with 6 years across product, brand, and motion. I don't stop at the handoff. Figma is where I shape the vision; Claude Code, Vercel, and GitHub are how I build and ship it.

Currently, I lead design at Indigo, where I design HQ, a shared AI context layer that 2,800+ people now rely on. Before that I was the sole designer at ShopSwap, taking a brand-partnership platform from zero to 300+ onboarded brands in 12 months. I also helped brands like Voyage, Abacus, HPO, and Moonflow refresh their identities, from guidelines to digital and physical products.

Zili Liu

I own design end to end, from research and discovery through product, brand, and design systems to the front-end that ships it, and I test with real users at every stage.

AI tools run through my workflow, from Claude to ChatGPT and Midjourney. When the tool I need doesn't exist, I build it: my own ASCII and halftone generators and animators, which I reuse from project to project.

Designing AI products at a startup means the ground shifts daily, so I make sure my craft moves just as fast.

7+
Years of Experience
30+
Projects
100K+
Followers
100+
Brand Partnerships

Design Lead @ Indigo12/2024 - Present
UI/UX Designer @ ShopSwap2/2023 - 12/2024
Freelance UX Designer9/2022 - 2/2023
UX Intern @ iQIYI10/2020 - 3/2021
Social Media Marketing Specialist @ MRG5/2022 - 12/2022
GQ Branding & Marketing Intern @ Conde Nast7/2019 - 1/2020
Marketing & PR Intern @ Weber Shandwick1/2019 - 2/2019

University of Michigan / Certificate of UX Research and Design2022 - 2023
University of Southern California / Master of Communication Management2020 - 2022
Communication University of China / Bachelor of Management2016 - 2020
Communication University of China / Bachelor of Arts2017 - 2019