Collaborative Digital Workspace for Streamlined Design Process

Design Playground is a digital workspace designed to enhance team collaboration, promote a consistent design language, and improve overall work efficiency.

My work focused on creating a shared digital space for collaborative design exploration to support non-design partners, such as Product Managers and Software Engineers. I conducted user research to understand team workflows, developed interaction concepts to facilitate seamless collaboration, and designed an intuitive system to maintain visual consistency across projects. Through usability testing and iterative prototyping, I refined the experience to maximize efficiency and ensure alignment with established design standards.

Due to NDA, I am unable to share project details. However, feel free to reach out via email or LinkedIn to learn more!

TEAM

Amazon Photos Team
Maria Bolivar-Tucker, UX Design Manager
Jia Hao, Design Mentor
Designers and Researchers from Amazon Photos

SKILLS

Concept Exploration & Development
Design System
User research & testing

MY ROLE

UX Design Intern

TIMELINE

May 2023 - August 2023

Challenge

Build design repository for non-design partners at Amazon Photos team in a way that allows them to independently visualize and implement ideas for customer problem-solving.

During the summer 2023, I had the privilege to be part of the Amazon Photos UX Core Team as a UX Design Intern. From being part of this internship experience, I was able to engage and work with an exceptional and nurturing community comprising dedicated UX Designers, UX Researchers, Product Managers, and Software Engineers, fostering both learning and collaboration.

The Amazon Photos UX Core Team focuses on crafting engaging and user-friendly experiences and interactions to enhance the digital services for various platforms (e.g. iOS, Android, Web and Desktop) while prioritizing customer satisfaction through elegant and simple designs that are backed by analytical precision and a commitment to end-to-end experience delivery. As an intern, I was tasked to create a shared digital space for collaborative design exploration for our non-designer partners (e.g. Product Managers and Software Engineers), fostering team communication, encouraging a cohesive design language, maximizing efficiency, and maintaining visual consistency with design standards, regardless of direct designer involvement.

To achieve the project's goal, I conducted an extensive research and exploration process, which led me to refine my research question into:
What strategies can be implemented to create a team-wide digital space that addresses technical challenges, provides clear guidance, and ensures consistency with the established design standards and styles within the team's existing design system?
What I did during internship
What I learned from internship
Some of the pictures that I took during my internship at Seattle!
If you would like to learn more about the project, feel free to reach out to me through my email or LinkedIn :-)

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