Liz Wells (she/her) is a product designer based in Brooklyn, New York. Liz is currently a senior product designer at Squarespace. Previously, Liz was a senior product designer at SuperHi and a senior user experience designer at Stink Studios where she created products and experiences that include a wide range of brands in music, health care, technology, fashion, media, and nonprofit.
Her work has been recognized by The One Show, Cannes Lions, D&AD, The Webbys, Awwwards, FWA, and Communication Arts, and featured in The Verge, The New York Times, Quartz, BuzzFeed, Adweek, Time, Fast Company, and Artsy to name a few. Her work for the Equal Justice Initiative was showcased in an exhibit at the Brooklyn Museum during the summer of 2017 titled The Legacy of Lynching: Confronting Racial Terror in America, and is currently on display at The Legacy Museum in Montgomery, Alabama.
Liz received her BFA in Graphic Design from the Rochester Institute of Technology in 2015. She has guest lectured at SVA and Parsons and taught a workshop at RIT. She also is the co-founded Desk Lunch, a community for all creative people of marginalized genders to share personal stories of what it's like to work in the creative industry.
Experience
SQUARESPACE
SENIOR PRODUCT DESIGNER
2021 TO PRESENT
SUPERHI
SENIOR PRODUCT DESIGNER
2020 TO 2021
DESK LUNCH NEWSLETTER
CO-FOUNDER & DESIGNER
2017 TO PRESENT
STINK STUDIOS NY
SENIOR USER EXPERIENCE DESIGNER
2019 TO 2020
USER EXPERIENCE DESIGNER
2016 TO 2019
JUNIOR USER EXPERIENCE DESIGNER
2015 TO 2016
USER EXPERIENCE DESIGN INTERN
2015
BIG SPACESHIP
DESIGN INTERN
2014
Press & Awards
DESIGNFLOWS 2021
AIGA SLC THE 100 SHOW
BÉZIER PODCAST
AWWWARDS
ADOBE LIVE
DESK MAGAZINE
CREATIVE CAREER STARTER PODCAST
ADOBE
DESK MAGAZINE
THE DOTS UK
ADC
AWWWARDS
INSIDE DESIGN
THE UX COLLECTIVE
THE DRUM
DESK MAGAZINE
CREATIVE BLOQ
BALLPOINT PODCAST
DESK MAGAZINE
CASE STUDY CLUB
Teaching
PARSONS
GUEST LECTURER,
“VISUAL CULTURE SEMINAR” OCTOBER 2019
“WEB FOR MOBILE DESIGN” MARCH 2019
SCHOOL OF VISUAL ARTS
GUEST LECTURER,
"INTERACTION DESIGN" FEBRUARY 2022
"SENIOR IXD PORTFOLIO" JANUARY 2020
“DESIGN FOR SOCIAL INNOVATION” JANUARY 2020
“DIGITAL DESIGN” FEBRUARY 2018
ROCHESTER INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
GUEST LECTURER,
"GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACE" SEPTEMBER 2020
THERE IS NO PROCESS WORKSHOP - LESSONS IN BUILDING USER CENTERED EXPERIENCES, NOVEMBER 2017
Clients
CONDÉ NAST
EQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE
EVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY
GOOGLE
MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING
NIKE
OSCAR
SIDEWALK LABS
SPOTIFY
THE LESBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL & TRANSGENDER COMMUNITY CENTER
TWITCH
TWITTER
VICELAND
Speaking
DESIGNFLOWS 2021 AWARD CEREMONY
MILAN, ITALY
MARCH, 2022
THOUGHT AT WORK
ROCHESTER, NEW YORK
OCTOBER, 2018
Education
ROCHESTER INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
BACHELOR OF FINE ARTS IN GRAPHIC DESIGN, MAGNA CUM LAUDE
ROCHESTER, NEW YORK, 2011 TO 2015
Notes
SKETCH PHOTOGRAPHY BY EMILY KORDOVICH
USING CLIFTON AND GT AMERICA
