# Liya (Julia) Zhu

> Designer +

Location: Seattle, Washington, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/liya

www.juliapig.com

## Work Experience
### Senior Product Designer @ Microsoft
Jan 2023 – Present | Greater Seattle Area

### Product Designer II @ Microsoft
Jan 2019 – Present | Greater Seattle Area

### UI/UX Designer @ Salesforce
Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | San Francisco
Design&User Experience | Creative Strategy | Sales

### UX Design Intern @ Electronic Arts (EA)
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Austin, Texas Area
· Conducted a holistic UX process on EA internal search for better employee experience
· Implemented various user research methods such as contextual inquiry, usability testing etc.
· Designed an interactive high fidelity prototype

### Associate Instructor @ Indiana University Bloomington
Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | Bloomington, Indiana Area
Course: Interaction Design Practice
· Assisted Professor in lectures and mentoring HCI/d master students

Previously in course: Information Representation(Database, MySQL)

### UX Design Intern @ IBM Studios
Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | Shanghai City, China
· Designed middleware platform for BPM (Business Process Management) assets
and collaborated with architects and devs
· Created design artifacts as scenario map, work flow, wireframes, interactive prototypes
and some of visual designs for cloud product like IBM Bluemix
· Integrated IBM Design Thinking practices to envision the user experience

### UX Design Intern @ Microsoft
Jan 2015 – Jan 2015
IMML(Information Management and Machine Learning), C&E(Cloud and Enterprise)
· Assisted senior UX designer to design user experience flow
· Designed usable graphics and icons for the final product
· Made high fidelity prototype to show product concept
· Cooperated with PM, Devs to refine the user experience
· Learned to write HTML & CSS to realize the front-end

### Ceramic Designer&Coacher @ Top Creative Pottery Workshop
Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 | Shanghai, China
Design ceramic works to sell (2 pieces sold);
Teach and help customers experience the process of pottery making and create an artwork of their own.

### Sony Student Design Workshop @ Sony
Jan 2013 – Jan 2014 | Shanghai, China


## Education
### Bachelor's degree in Industrial Design
Shanghai Jiao Tong University

### Master's degree in Human Computer Interaction Design
Indiana University Bloomington

### Industrial Engineering
INSA Lyon - Institut National des Sciences Appliquées de Lyon


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/juliazhu59
- Website: http://juliapig.com

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Source: https://flows.cv/liya
JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/liya/resume.json
Last updated: 2026-02-23