Rie Miyazaki Liu

Product /Visual Designer

Fremont, CA, USA
A committed designer who enjoys creating a product that offers intuitive user experiences to improve a product’s hospitality to make users feel comfortable and give them meaningful advice to meet their goals and increase their quality of life.

I embrace an iterative, lightweight and empirical process of collaboration to share a vision to identify business strategy and user goals and apply the vision into UX design practices.

Work Experience

Tellagami

Product Designer @ Firework

• Presented design solutions at design reviews to ensure alignment with customer needs and future commerce opportunities for designers, product managers, engineers, and executives
• Actively conducted user research and collaborated with the global customer sales team to identify user challenges and brainstormed creative solutions with the user's needs in mind
August 2022 - May 2023 California, United States

Tellagami

Visual /Product Designer @ Tellagami Labs

• Worked with Business management to analyze project requirements
• Collaborated with the team to release the best work possible
• Led the design process from wireframes to prototypes to user testing to provide the best UX solutions
• Presented design strategies at UX reviews to deliver solutions that delight users

Skills: Design Specifications · Brand Identity · Product Strategy · Design Systems · Competitive Analysis · Presentation Skills · Communication · Typography · User Interface Design · User Experience · Interaction Design · User Research · User Experience Design · Agile Project Management · User Interface Prototyping · Figma (Software) · iOS Design · A/B Testing
March 2015 - January 2022 California, United States

Xtranormal

Visual Designer @ Xtranormal

• Work with the Creative Director to grow and develop the brand
• Design the new and updated user experiences, visual mockups and specifications for mobile app
• Provide design concept to develop design solutions in response to business needs
• Work closely with writers, product managers to ensure one cohesive branded experience across company products and services
• Collaboration with engineers for quality assurance and user research
March 2012 - July 2014 California, United States

MH Industries

Graphic/Web Designer Lead @ MH Industries

• Designed marketing materials including logos, business cards, print collateral, advertisements, mailers, presentations and packaging
• Designed Style guides and guidelines for brand usage
• Designed websites, banner ads and email blasts
2007 - 2011 California, United States

Jakks Pacific

Graphic Designer (Branding/Packaging) @ Jakks Pacific

• Designed logos, packaging design, event collateral for kid’s toys for licensors including Disney, Mattel, Nickelodeon
• Worked efficiently with product manager, art director as a member of a large production team
• Designed Style guides and guidelines for brand usage
2006 - 2007 California, United States

Education

California State University, Fullerton

Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA), Graphic Design

Core classes:
- Special Studies in Graphic Design
- Computer Assisted Graphics
- Design for Interactive Art
- Computer Assisted Graphics
- Design for Interactive Art
- Writing in the Visual Arts
2003 - 2005 Fullerton, California, United States

Fashion Institute Of Design & Merchandising (FIDM)

Associate of Arts (AA), Graphic Design

2001 - 2002 Los Angeles, California, United States

Languages

English (Fluent),
Japanese (Native),
Chinese (Beginner),

Skills

Figma, HTML/CSS, Illustrator, Information Architecture, Interaction Design, InVision, Mobile (iOS/Android), Photoshop, Product Design, Sketch, Usability Testing, User Research , UX Strategy,

Organizations

Interaction Design Foundation
Starting October 2016
https://www.interaction-design.org/courses

Certifications

• User Experience Design
CareerFoundry GmbH
https://careerfoundry.com/en

• Front-end Foundations
Code School
https://www.codeschool.com/