# Augustina Liu

> Senior Product Designer at Toast; Award-winning Product/UX Designer based in Seattle; 
Red Dot Design Winner & iF Design Award Winner; 
Marketing Director @ IxDA Seattle

Location: Greater Seattle Area, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/augustina

Award-winning adaptable and high-performing UX/product designer, passionate about building teams sitting at the intersection of business, design, and development, I produce thoughtful, timeless designs that connect business objectives with clean aesthetics that deliver lasting, and impressive user experiences both on and off-screen.

Basics:
- Design: Figma, Adobe XD, Sketch, Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign, 
- Prototype: Figma, Adobe XD, Sketch, Principle, Framer
- <> React, CSS, WordPress
- Languages: English, Native Mandarin

Highlights:
- UX Design
- Inclusive Design
- Accessibility
- Design Thinking
- Creative problem solving
- Design System

## Work Experience
### Senior Product Designer @ Toast
Jan 2023 – Present | Seattle, Washington, United States

### Product/UX Designer @ Wynd Technologies, Inc.
Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 | San Carlos, California, United States
Led and owned the product & user experience design for 2 major product lines, including enterprise web & desktop apps and consumer mobile & tablet apps. Collaborated with a cross-functional team to ensure seamless product lifecycles. 
Designed and launched a mobile app and a web portal for Sentry, a smoke & noise detector, by applying the end-to-end design process. 
Created a web portal, Commercial Real Estate, for managing indoor air quality for enterprise clients and customer supports to improve overall user experience.
Established and maintained the web & mobile design system, fostering consistency and efficiency between developers and designers and increasing scalability across major product lines.

### UX Designer @ Photon
Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | Seattle, Washington, United States
Worked with a cross-functional product team at Photon's client Alaska Airlines Ops360 team to design an airline operational tool. Built and maintained the design system.
Delivered comprehensive end-to-end UX solutions through effective communication with PMs; conducted user research and usability testing to engage stakeholders.
Collaborated with PMs, SCRUM master, business team, design team, and engineering team through daily SCRUM, design handoff, and QA testing.

### UX Designer @ Fresh Chalk
Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | Seattle, Washington, United States
Worked with a cross-functional team on the design of a recommendation-sharing platform
Provided user-centered mobile and web designs within a fast-growing environment
Revamped visual concepts and interaction patterns

### UX Designer @ Nav.it
Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 | Seattle, Washington, United States
Designed the MVP for Nav.it, a financial management app
Worked with Product Engineer to conduct user research, construct user flow, deliver information architecture, wireframes, and hi-fi prototypes in the UX process
Created and maintained components for Nav.it design system

### UX Designer @ Remmie Health
Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | Seattle, Washington, United States
Worked with PM to refine user flows and design the wireframes and high-fidelity user interfaces for MVP
Created and maintaining the design systems of products
Constructed the new design for the user manual

### UX Design Intern @ Genemod
Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | Seattle, Washington, United States
Designed a shared freezer inventory management tool for scientific research. Increased the engagement rate by 27%.
Led communications among stakeholders, business team, and engineers to gather insights and design requirements. Increased existing customer referral rate by 16.9%.
Built high-fidelity prototypes using the Genemod design system

### UX Design Intern @ AdaptiLab
Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | Greater Seattle Area
Redesigned user flows and visuals of the company’s website based on SaaS and user-centered guidelines

### Student UX Designer(Capstone Project) @ Nordstrom
Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | Seattle, Washington, United States
Collaborated with UX designers and UX researchers at Nordstrom for the HCDE Capstone project
Led the team of 4 in the evaluation stage, including concept testing and iterating fom wireframe to high-fidelity design
Reinvented the Chatbot experience for Nordstrom to deliver better customer service for online shopping

### Undergraduate Research Assistant @ University of Washington Human Centered Design & Engineering
Jan 2018 – Jan 2020 | Greater Seattle Area
Assisted research about exploration for enriching user experience through the voice design. 
Conducted literature review, proposed the instruction and protocol for participants, and ran the study.
Drafted a research paper about the study.

### Undergraduate Course Assistant @ University of Washington Human Centered Design & Engineering
Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | Seattle
Collaborate and communicate with the instructor team to teach human-centered design techniques and concepts for the introductory class of HCDE Provide constructive and responsible feedbacks to students on their coursework

### UX Designer @ International Recruiting LLC
Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | Greater Seattle Area
Redesigned the company website to best present the company brand and services.


## Education
### Bachelor of Science - BS in Human Centered Design Engineering
University of Washington
Jan 2016 – Jan 2020


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/augustinal
- Portfolio: https://augustinaliu.com

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Last updated: 2026-03-30