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New comment by iamstephenliu in "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (September 2026)"

iamstephenliu — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 15:47:02 +0000

Location: SF Bay Area

Remote: OK

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: UX Design, Product Design, Design Systems, Information Architecture, UX Research, Claude Code, Figma, Replit, HTML/CSS/JS

Résumé/CV: https://iamstephenliu.com/StephenLiuResume.pdf

Email: hireme@iamstephenliu.com

Product Designer with 11+ years of experience in design, research, and some front-end. I've worked on design systems, AI-powered dashboards, fintech, fleet mobility platforms, B2B and B2B2C SaaS, and standards development. Most recently I was working on skills to facilitate prototyping spec-accurate designs and flows for ecommerce, as well as another skill to enable client-facing teams to create full prototypes for pre-sales demos. I've worked in both startups and large corporations, and I'm interested in opportunities where I can learn and build on top of designing for complex systems.

New comment by iamstephenliu in "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (August 2026)"

iamstephenliu — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 17:57:50 +0000

Location: SF Bay Area

Remote: OK

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: UX Design, Product Design, Design Systems, Information Architecture, UX Research, Claude Code, Figma, Replit, HTML/CSS/JS

Résumé/CV: https://iamstephenliu.com/StephenLiuResume.pdf

Email: hireme@iamstephenliu.com

Product Designer with 11+ years of experience in design, research, and some front-end. I've worked on design systems, AI-powered dashboards, fintech, fleet mobility platforms, B2B and B2B2C SaaS, and standards development. Most recently I was working on skills to facilitate prototyping spec-accurate designs and flows for ecommerce, as well as another skill to enable client-facing teams to create full prototypes for pre-sales demons. I've worked in both startups and large corporations, and I'm interested in opportunities where I can learn and build on top of designing for complex systems.

New comment by iamstephenliu in "27-inch iMac gets a major update"

iamstephenliu — Wed, 05 Aug 2020 17:27:18 +0000

IIRC the iMac and the PowerBook were among the last computers to get an update after Apple announced that they were switching to Intel, and they were also the first computers to get Intel processors.

So this probably doesn't mean anything in that regard.

New comment by iamstephenliu in "AT&T giving $1000 bonus to all its employees because of tax reform"

iamstephenliu — Wed, 20 Dec 2017 20:13:31 +0000

Having corporate insurance doesn't mean employees aren't subject to paying premiums that could increase next year.

New comment by iamstephenliu in "Introducing Surface Laptop"

iamstephenliu — Tue, 02 May 2017 16:40:41 +0000

Apple has a bottom bulge on their notebooks whereas Microsoft doesn't: http://www.pcmag.com/media/images/427048-apple-macbook-air-1...

New comment by iamstephenliu in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2016)"

iamstephenliu — Sat, 02 Jul 2016 02:41:19 +0000

Standard resume format or federal resume format?

New comment by iamstephenliu in "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (June 2016)"

iamstephenliu — Thu, 02 Jun 2016 00:51:01 +0000

Location: Chicago, IL

Remote: Sure

Willing to relocate: Yes, SFBA preferred

Technologies: HTML/CSS/Javascript, Sketch, Photoshop

Résumé/CV: http://www.iamstephenliu.com/resume.html

Email: stephen@iamstephenliu.com

Accomplishments & Fun Facts:

- I'm a full-stack designer specializing in design research and UX design.

- I designed, developed, and deployed IBM's SPSS Online Community (http://developer.ibm.com/predictiveanalytics) and helped grow it to over 20k visits per month.

- I was an experimental music major in undergrad, and my thesis project was basically me trying to channel John Cage. Kinda.

- I tried to use littleBits to teach 3rd graders about the science of sound while in grad school. "Tried" is an important qualifier.

New comment by iamstephenliu in "Android 6.0 Marshmallow Reviewed"

iamstephenliu — Mon, 05 Oct 2015 19:40:53 +0000

Join the Windows side. We have Dark mode.

New comment by iamstephenliu in "Windows 10 is unfinished"

iamstephenliu — Fri, 31 Jul 2015 20:44:11 +0000

IIRC, 10.7 was buggy as mad hell.

I'm surprised Microsoft still hasn't fixed the dual interfaces problem, though.

New comment by iamstephenliu in "The AT&T Next Hustle"

iamstephenliu — Sat, 04 Jul 2015 23:00:31 +0000

How is that "worse"? They have two other installment duration options.

Again, though, that's the same thing that happens if you break your phone on T-Mobile before 24 months if you don't have Jump, which not everyone has.

New comment by iamstephenliu in "The AT&T Next Hustle"

iamstephenliu — Sat, 04 Jul 2015 17:41:56 +0000

It's nowhere near being "worse" than the article states. The Next plans are literally just $0 down, 0% interest installment plans. It's exactly what T-Mobile is doing, except AT&T does a really shitty job of explaining how it works and, instead of having you pay $10 for Jump to trade-in whenever you want, you can opt to trade it in a few months before the payments finish.

My friend's T-Mobile phone broke halfway through her installment plan. She had to buy a new one and still pay for her old, broken one for the next year.

New comment by iamstephenliu in "Is It Better to Rent or Buy?"

iamstephenliu — Thu, 18 Jun 2015 17:23:24 +0000

Depends on what level of education; K-12 is generally funded out of property taxes.