Hi, I'm Lizzie :)

Design is my second act. I spent two years in digital marketing for PR and fashion houses before I switched. That background is my advantage: I know how attention is earned, held, and converted — and I design products accordingly.

I'm a product designer 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, iterate, and deploy it. Closing the gap between concept and live product is where I do my best work.

Currently, I lead design at Indigo, where I design HQ — a shared AI context layer for teams. It launched #1 on Product Hunt and now runs across 600+ companies and 3,800+ deployments.

Before that I was the sole designer at ShopSwap, taking a brand-partnership platform from zero to 300+ onboarded brands in 12 months.

Zili Liu

I own design end to end: discovery, product, brand, and the design system that holds it together — then the front-end that ships it. Research and usability testing keep it honest; when the testing contradicts the design, I change the design.

AI runs through the whole day. Midjourney, ChatGPT, and Nano Banana sit in my workflow, and I code my own design tools — ASCII and halftone generators and animators — that I reuse across projects. Designing AI products at a startup means the ground shifts weekly, 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