Leslie Liu

About

Product and interaction designer exploring how tools shape — and are shaped by — the people who use them. I work with technical users navigating complex data, combining interaction design, creative coding, and critical inquiry.

Based in EDT (UTC-4).

MS Computational Design (Carnegie Mellon ’26).

A dark slate-blue interface of a visualization tool titled 'M2020 Hindsight' with various panels displaying segments of a drive on Martian terrain. In the main area to the right are an enlarged image of a map, charts, and camera imagery.

Mars 2020 Hindsight A web-based interactive visualization tool that supports the Perseverance rover operations team in rapid retrieval of relevant drive data for planning and fault investigation.

A dark gray interface of a visualization tool that shows two rows of grayscale sky imagery. In the bottom: a list of potential objects from the imagery, a list of parameters, and a black and white chart.

Digital Sky Surveys A user experience probe for Caltech astronomers navigating high-dimensional multiwavelength data.

Three AI-generated images atop a light grey background. The image on the left depicts a woman leaning into a man, in a car against a vibrant sunset. The image in the middle is of a cow, rendered in a graphic, posterized style, against an orange background atop a side view of a truck. On the right is a similarly tiled image; on the top, a woman points to something in the distance, another behind her looking on in shock. Below: a cat next to an indeterminate form that resembles a clump of hair.

Google Labs Prototyping interaction patterns and community rituals.

A screenshot of dark gray book design software, open with a book spread showing grids and text boxes. On the right is an open panel of a list of scripts.

Generative Book Sprint Helper [In Progress] InDesign script for programmatic book design.