Product & UX Design

Ashley T. — Product & UX Design portfolio

Senior Product Designer · New York City

I make things easier to love. At Amazon I redesigned how millions of people discover books. Now I'm looking for the next problem worth solving.

click to change · move to interact

Project 01 · Amazon Books

Designing a Shared Language for Recommendations

AMAZON · UX DESIGNER II · SUMMER 2025 – WINTER 2025

Recommendations existed across Amazon Books, but every team defined similarity differently. This project established a shared taxonomy and decision framework other teams could design against, work that shaped direction without shipping a single screen.

StrategySystems thinkingCross-team alignmentFrameworks
A shared taxonomy
Three similarity types, defined and named
A decision framework
From customer intent to explanation
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Project 02 · Amazon Books

Books Quickview

Amazon · Design Lead, Desktop Experience · 2023–2025

Reimagining how customers discover, evaluate, and purchase books without breaking their browsing flow. One immersive modal to replace a fragmented ecosystem across an entire org, driving a 220% increase in acquisition clicks and a sustained 48% lift in CTR over 9 months.

Interaction designMotionUser researchDesign systems
220%
increase in acquisition clicks following launch
48%
lift in CTR sustained over 9 months

Add to List usage increased significantly vs. detail pages. Reading and buying CTAs up 59–60%.

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Project 03 · Amazon Books

Publisher Merchandising

AMAZON · UX DESIGNER · 2023–2024

Redesigning paid publisher placement slots on Amazon Books genre pages for the first time in a decade. A rotating billboard carousel, a parallax scroll experience, and a flexible template system that gave publishers more creative power while protecting Amazon's design standards.

Motion designSystems designStakeholder managementVisual design
200%
increase in carousel clicks (launch month weblab)
50%
increase in carousel click through rate, year over year
VP approval
on all three slot designs at presentation

Final launch scope was shaped by later engineering and business decisions.

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Project 04 · Independent Product Design

A La Carte Recipes

Product Designer, Design Lead · 2026–Present

A personal frustration turned product experiment. I designed and led A La Carte end to end to test how far AI assisted tools could take a single designer from idea to a fully built, production ready product.

Product designAI assisted workflowDesign leadEnd to end
Fully built
production ready app in pre-launch
Pre-launch
no public metrics yet; case study covers product thinking

Production ready. Currently in pre-launch.

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