Design Lecture Series, Spring 2024: Liana Kong

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Please join us for another edition of our Design Lecture Series with Product Designer, Liana Kong.

Liana worked previously as a product designer at Cruise Self-Driving Cars, defining hardware interactions for the Cruise Origin. She has a passion for designing the space between people and the physical objects around them. Previously a designer on the Device Interaction Design team at Google Nest, Liana specializes in how users interact with hardware through affordances such as physical buttons, touch, haptics, LEDs, and more. When not designing, she makes clay vases through her studio, Lili Buds. Liana graduated from the School of Design with a BFA in Industrial Design in 2015. lianakong.com