# Xuan Liu

> Senior Design System Designer at Amazon

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

Focusing on building scalable design systems across various platforms and devices, with pixel-perfect standards for accessibility, scalability, usability, and technical feasibility. 

Email: xuanliux93@gmail.com
Github: github.com/xuan6
Portfolio: xuanliu.xyz

## Work Experience
### Sr. UX Designer (Design System) @ Amazon
Jan 2023 – Present | Greater Seattle Area
@ Device & Service Design Group

- Design and document system patterns across Amazon devices
- Develop and curate internal trainings to share best practice of building, delivering, maintaining, and utilizing design systems

### UX Designer (Design System) @ Amazon
Jan 2017 – Jan 2023 | Greater Seattle Area
@ Device & Service Design Group

- Work with designers and engineers to build design systems for multimodal Alexa devices.
- Systematize designs with engineering patterns to ensure compatibility, feasibility, and scalability across Android, iOS, Web, and React Native platforms.
- Create and maintain Figma and Sketch design libraries at scale. 
- Document, communicate, and govern the use, adoption, and evolution of design systems.
- Define and promote best practices of maintaining and delivering design systems.

- Focused areas: Alexa Echo Show OS Level Features and Design Systems, Communications and Social, Smart Home. 

- Shipped products: Echo Show 15, Echo Show 10, Echo Show 8, Echo Show 5, Echo Show 2nd gen, Echo Spot, FireTV App, and Alexa App.

### UX Designer @ Amazon
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Greater Seattle Area
@Device & Service Design Group

### UX Designer & UI Developer @ Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Greater Seattle Area
@Communication & IT Directorate

Worked with Custom Development team to design and build 3 React-based internal web app tools.
- Designed and iterated user flows, hi-fidelity mockups, and interaction using Sketch.
- Developed core UI components using React.js, CSS, and HTML.
- Planned and conducted usability testing to analyze user feedbacks.

### Front-end Engineer & Designer @ ExtraHop
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Greater Seattle Area
- Developed one HR reporting dashboard web app with React, D3, HTML, CSS.
- Developed the front-end UI of a Chrome extension with React, HTML, CSS.
- Designed and iterated user flows, UI and interaction using Sketch.
- Led user research to identify and analyze product requirements.

### UX Designer @ Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | Richland/Kennewick/Pasco, Washington Area
@Communication & IT Directorate

Collaborated with a multi-disciplinary intern team for 2 projects:
(1) Lab Web & Newsletter Redesign:
- Led user research planning, analysis, documentation, and presentation.
- Conducted focus groups and interviews to identify requirements.
- Collaborated in 3 design iterations to build wireframes, mockups, and prototypes.
- Administered 7 user testing sessions with scenario based tasks and card sorting.
- Reported to CIO and leadership team.

(2) Lab Monthly Financial Report Enhancement:
- Interviewed stakeholders to understand workflows, pain points, and expectations.
- Redesigned the Lab Monthly Financial Report, providing suggestions on content, data processing, analyzing, and visualization.
- Reported to CFO and leadership team.


## Education
### Master’s Degree in Information Science
University of Washington

### Bachelor’s Degree in Finance
Hunan University


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/xuanliux
- Portfolio: https://xuanliu.xyz

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Last updated: 2026-03-31