With over a decade of product design experience spanning startups and Fortune 500 companies, I'm passionate about creating intuitive, user-centered and accessible experiences with real utility that people love. As a Senior Product Designer at Goodreads (an Amazon subsidiary), I lead the design of discovery, personalization, book tracking, and rating experiences—all informed by foundational and iterative UX research that puts readers first. During my time as an early designer at Brave Browser, I shipped cross-platform features like onboarding, the new tab page, Brave Shields, Brave Talk, Brave News, and VPN, while mentoring junior designers and scaling the user research function. I've built two design systems in the past at both Brave and Goodreads, which has made me adept at identifying UX patterns, systems thinking, setting accessibility standards, and contributing to design system MCP development. My work in design systems and experience in motion design using Figma, LottieFiles, and AI-powered prototyping all help me in creating visually delightful experiences that genuinely improve people's lives.
2023 — 2026
San Francisco, California, United States
2021 — 2023
San Francisco, California, United States
2021 — 2026
San Francisco, California, United States
2021 — 2021
San Francisco, California, United States
2018 — 2020
San Francisco, California, United States
2017 — 2018
New York, New York, United States
2015 — 2016
New York, New York, United States
2013 — 2015
Greater New York City Area
Feel free to contact me at karenliu@placeholder.flows.cv