# Connie L. > designer Location: San Francisco, California, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/conniel creative technology, immersive experiences, physical fabrication, and everything spatial. ## Work Experience ### Visual Designer @ Gray Area Jan 2024 – Present graphic design, marketing, and everything new media :) ### Lead Product Designer @ Palatial Jan 2024 – Jan 2025 democratizing 3D and XR creative workflows for indie developers and artists ### Experience Designer @ Adobe Jan 2023 – Jan 2023 Building equity and accessibility into Generative AI text-to-image tools and Adobe Firefly through robust prompt builders, uplifting creatives with cognitive and intellectual disabilities and making prompt building easier for everyone. ### CS1300 UI/UX Teaching Assistant @ Brown University Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 ### UX Research Assistant @ Human-Computer Interaction Lab @ Brown University Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 | Providence, Rhode Island, United States Assisting development and conducting usability studies of a new vector-based painting tool. SVG filters galore! ### UX Designer @ HerbUX Project @ Brown University Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | Providence, Rhode Island, United States - Increasing the accessibility of digital herbarium collections with the HerbUX Project, a research grant project designing proposals for an updated digital plant collection interface to accommodate the increased digitization of plant specimens across herbariums and museums around the world. - Creating wireframes and prototypes of interface proposals with non-expert audiences (such as students, museum visitors, and the general public) in mind, for use in classrooms, museums, and other public spaces. ### Design Event Coordinator at Design@Brown @ Brown University Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 Work collaboratively with the Events Department of Design@Brown, a student group aimed to increase Design presence at Brown, to establish timeline, logistics, and execution of campus projects and events. ### UX Designer @ NVIDIA Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 Granting businesses a greater understanding of their customers. Worked closely with a design mentor and engineering team :D ### Design Fellow @ The Tempest Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 Designed media layouts, content, and animations for The Tempest, a global women's media company. Collaborated with an all-women team of designers and managers to create a cohesive visual brand. ### Co-Founder and Designer @ Hack the Fog Jan 2017 – Jan 2019 | San Francisco Bay Area Founded and organized San Francisco’s first high school hackathon, featured in the San Francisco Chronicle Designed logo and visual layout of hackathon's website and merchandise Held weekly meetings to manage status and progress of each department in the organizing team Established and built relationships with sponsors and speakers to fund and promote event Extended outreach to educational institutions around the Bay Area to recruit students and attendees; final attendee demographic spanned the entirety of California ### Head of Graphic Design @ FIRST Jan 2017 – Jan 2019 | San Francisco Bay Area Directed Team 4159 Cardinalbotics' team of designers, managed timelines and deadlines of constant stream of multiple projects at once. Assigned roles across different personnel in the department and led weekly debrief meetings. Established branding standards and design cohesion across all platforms of outreach and public relations, and designed stickers, posters, flyers, buttons, and apparel for the team. ### Creative Technology Apprentice @ Dolby Laboratories Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | Gray Area Theater Worked collaboratively with an all-women team and used Processing to develop artwork exploring the ties between art and technology for the Dolby Laboratories' Digital Ribbon Screen on Market Street. ## Education ### Bachelor of Arts - BA in Triple Concentration in Computer Science + Visual Art + Literary Arts Brown University ### Rhode Island School of Design ### Copenhagen in Denmark, Graphic Design + Furniture Design DIS - Study Abroad ### Lowell High School Jan 2015 – Jan 2019 ### Summer Academy iOS Development Make School Jan 2018 ### Graphic Design & Illustration in Film Design, Playwriting and Screenwriting & Character Design Academy of Art University Jan 2016 – Jan 2018 ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/theconnieliu --- Source: https://flows.cv/conniel JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/conniel/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-25