# Xiaohan Liu

> Director of Product Design

Location: San Carlos, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/xiaohanliu

## Work Experience
### Director of Product Design @ Palo Alto Networks
Jan 2022 – Present

### Senior Product Design Manager @ Palo Alto Networks
Jan 2019 – Jan 2022

### Product Design Manager @ Zingbox Inc.
Jan 2017 – Jan 2019
- Designed for machine learning based IoT solutions
- Led design team to work on end to end design at fast pace startup, ship weekly
- Collaborated with cross function teams
- Engaged users through testing and walkthroughs
- Facilitated design critiques and reviews
- Led designer hiring and coaching

### Product Design Lead @ Cisco
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017
- Lead product design for DNA platform, define product requirements from short term MVPs to long term vision
- Drive to create a holistic product experience (e.g. search, on-boarding, navigation and etc.)  across different apps and functional areas in DNA
- Coordinate between various PM and engineering teams to meet release and sprints goals 
- Conceptualize ideas,  create tasks flows, low to high fidelity mockups and specs

### Senior User Experience Designer @ Cisco
Jan 2014 – Jan 2017 | San Jose
- Worked on Cisco Identity Service Engine (ISE)
- Led various design projects, collaborated with cross functional teams(PM, Engineering, Sales and etc) 
- Initiated and led ISE policy redesign, taking the long term vision in mind, to create simple and intuitive solutions in the core function area of the product 
- Initiated and led mobile ISE project, aimed to create simple and spontaneous  experience for users on the go, and received great feedback from early field testing. 
- Led Hammurbi project, which to build a design system to drive consistencies among all Cisco security products.  
- Mentor junior designers in team, conducted regular design reviews and critiques

### User experience designer @ Cisco
Jan 2011 – Jan 2014 | San Jose
- Worked on nextGen firewall and SSP products
- Applied user centered design into everyday work: creating flows and story boards, making wireframes and prototypes, and conducting user interviews and testings with researchers
- Defined product requirements and built common understanding among stakeholders, visualized early concepts, mapped user journeys and product eco-system

### Interaction design @ Oracle Corporation
Jan 2010 – Jan 2011
- Designed for mobile HCM products
- Expanded the established design libraries and explored new mobile UI patterns (US patent 13364996 filed)

### Associate Instructor @ Indiana University
Jan 2008 – Jan 2010
- Taught course I310, Multimedia Arts & Technology 
- Instructed about animation principles, movie production theories, along with video and Flash production
- Mentored multiple teams to manage collaborative activities and to develop viral videos

### User experience research intern @ Nationwide Insurance
Jan 2009 – Jan 2010
- Helped to plan and conduct user research for Nationwide online insurance services projects
- Facilitated usability testing sessions
- Analyzed user experience issues and delivered final reports
- Built solid understanding of the collaboration between user researcher and designer


## Education
### M.S in Human Computer Interaction design
Indiana University Bloomington

### B.S in Digtal Media Arts & Technology (Information Engineering)
Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/xiaohanliu
- Portfolio: http://whattoexperience.com

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Last updated: 2026-04-13