Ann Niou

Product Designer

Hi!
I'm Ann.

I'm a systems thinker with a front-end development background who thrives in solving unprecedented challenges.

Over the past 11 years, I've had the pleasure of innovating with small startups to fortune 500 enterprise companies around the world and across multiple industries.

I love partnering across disciplines to build scalable programs and systems, imagine novel solutions, and turn deep technical complexity into intuitive high-quality products people love.

In my free time, find me at the pottery studio, out for a run, nerding out about coffee somewhere, or planning (if not on) my next travel adventure.

Ann Niou

My Experience

Google

Aug 2021 — Present

UX Designer, Google Cloud

Launched and scaled Cloud’s largest horizontal UX program across 12+ UX teams, unlocking $40B market.

Led Generative AI for Security, Privacy, and Compliance portfolios, shipping experiences that reduced time-to-value by 90%.

Co-led unification of enterprise compliance offering that unblocked a $275M+ pipeline.

Established design system ecosystem (Figma library, governance, and working group) for new converged product comprised of three previously separate design systems, enabling the team to scale without fragmenting.

Meta (Facebook)

Nov 2020 — Jul 2021

Product Designer

Led end-to-end redesign of the advertiser trust experience across Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, and Messenger — reducing fraud and friction.

Scaled and launched experience from advertisers to sellers for nascent commerce offering under aggressive timelines.

IBM Cloud Garage

Apr 2018 — Oct 2020

Global Design Strategist

Led design strategy and UX delivery for cloud modernization and AI adoption across Fortune 100 clients and startups — spanning insurance, climate tech, financial services, healthcare, and government

IBM Watson

Mar 2015 — Mar 2018

Lead Product Designer

Led research and design for a $30M AI-powered legal research platform — designing the end-to-end experience and building a design system adopted across 15 global engineering teams.

IBM

Jul 2014 — Feb 2015

Front-End Developer

Built responsive front-end interfaces for enterprise client applications using HTML, CSS, and modern (at the time :)) JS frameworks.