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VERA LIAO
Advancing business value through UX.
Hello!
My name is Vera and I’m a UX designer based in Seattle. My experience expands in all stages of the human-centered design process from define, decide, to deliver. I'm great at design thinking, UX flow, prototyping, and usability testing. I’m passionate about design patterns and love to work on end-to-end product design and initiatives.
My current work has been focused on improving cloud security and compliance at AWS.
Work Experience
2021 - Present
AWS
UX Designer II
Security Services and Compliance
2020 - 2021
Coding Dojo
Product Designer
Learning Experience Initiatives for Students
2020
FinityOne
Lead Product Designer
Fin-tech Software Design for Agency Client
2019 - 2020
KLOA
UX Designer
Mobile AI Exploratory for Content Creators
Education
Class of 2021
M.S Human-Centered Design and Engineering
University of Washington
Class of 2018
B.S Psychology
B.A Communication (Honors program)
University of Washington
Publication
“How the Design of YouTube Influences User Sense of Agency” (PDF)
ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI) 2021
Kai Lukoff, Ulrik Lyngs, Himanshu Zade, J. Vera Liao, James Choi, Kaiyue Fan, Sean A. Munson, Alexis Hiniker
Contribution
“Ecosystem or Echo-System? Exploring Content Sharing across Alternative Media Domain” (PDF)
Twelfth International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (2018)
Starbird, K., Arif, A., Wilson, T., Van Koevering, K., Yefimova, K., & Scarnecchia, D.
* Although my name was not included in the published paper, my work significantly supported the project’s analytical and visual components in the preceding work “Understanding the Alternative Media Landscape Surrounding the Syrian White Helmets”.
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