# Anna Shi > Product Designer & Creative ( •ॢᴗ•ॢ⋈) | UX Designer @ Amazon 🧸⟡˖ ࣪ Location: Greater Seattle Area, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/annashi 🌸 Hi! I am a Product Designer with a background in visual arts. I'm fluent in translating ambiguous spaces into focused actionable steps + driving impact through value-focused stories and intentional strategies to bring stakeholders together ʕ•̫͡•ʕ•̫͡•ʔ•̫͡•ʔ 🌟 I have designed & delivered impact for internal growth tools, HR & operations, tourism, software design, education, mental health, and healthcare 🎨 Currently finding passion in... • playing with color & sketching memories • documenting life through vlogs • tasting every matcha latte and boba shop in seattle Feel free to drop a hello! ☕️ DM or email at anna.shi127@gmail.com 📧 Portfolio and resume available upon request:) ## Work Experience ### UX Designer @ Amazon Jan 2023 – Present | Seattle, Washington, United States Delivering integrated, people-centric solutions and incentives that increase attendance and reduce attrition for a global workforce, one iteration at a time 🖌️ Leading and supporting design for 5+ products ### Lead Product Designer @ University of Washington Department of Psychology Jan 2023 – Present | Seattle, Washington, United States 0 to 1 Design & research on AI Behavioral Coach 💬 ### Product Designer @ University of Washington Department of Psychology Jan 2023 – Present | Seattle, Washington, United States Worked with the Simoni Lab in a crossfunctional team of product managers, developers, and designers to develop a WeChat-based Mini Program to bring accessible computer-based education and counseling intervention to individuals newly diagnosed with HIV in China. Our goal is to improve mental wellness, encourage medication adherence, and build supportive communities through cognitive behavioral therapy. ### Figma Student Leader @ Figma Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 | Seattle, Washington, United States • Led Friends of Figma University of Washington student chapter 2022-2023, empowering over 100 designers to grow through workshops, resources, and tutorials • Partnered with student-led design organizations (UX@UW, Dubstech) and hosted 3 events to support 100+ students in improving their Figma craft ### Undergraduate Research Assistant @ University of Washington Information School Jan 2021 – Jan 2023 | Seattle, Washington, United States Under iSchool Professor Jason Yip, I analyzed how youths search for health and financial information for families with lower English literacy levels or lower socioeconomic status. • Collaboratively worked to identify how technological systems can be better designed to fit the needs of younger users who search for health and financial information for their family • Facilitated and analyzed user interviews with first-generation college students and children, engaged in thematic analysis coding, and audited interview transcripts • Assisted in co-design sessions with the Vietnamese teenagers in Seattle community ### Virtual Reality Researcher @ University of Washington Information School Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 | Seattle, Washington, United States Under Professor Margie Morris, I explored self-representation in social and collaborative VR by analyzing how avatar choices and other aspects of self-representation relate to disability and gender. ### Director of Design @ UX @ UW Jan 2021 – Jan 2023 | Seattle, Washington, United States UX@UW is a UW community for students of all levels that want to grow their UX skills. As a club, we host workshops and panels to support UXers in their UX career. In the past year and a half, we held 17 workshops with over 500+ total attendees, invited Figma educator & designer Miggi to teach 4 various Figma workshops, and hosted a Figmathon with over 150+ participants. • Collaborated in a cross-functional team to develop UX curriculum, invite guest speakers, and organize social media content • Co-taught UX-related topics in bi-weekly meetings along with guest speakers, now growing with a 25% increase in membership turnout • Established clear design branding through consistent design styles and engaging content for social/marketing deliverables, leading to a 300% increase in followers and 60% increase in engagement in the past 24 months ### UX Design Intern @ Amazon Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 | Seattle, Washington, United States Making managers' lives easier one iteration at a time @ Amazon Talent Products Team • In a team of 6 designers 2 researchers, I applied research findings to craft a simplified end-to-end user experience of assigning growth areas to employees to advance their career growth, supporting more than 800,000 users around the world • Worked cross-functionally and iteratively to increase the usability of assigning growth areas by auditing existing product and leveraging competitive analysis • Led usability tests to identify confusions and low-performing areas of the assigning process, improving usability of growth assignment by 100% Incoming Full-time UX Designer in 2023 ### Design Lead and Co-Director @ Figmathon Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 | Seattle, Washington, United States Led by UX@UW, this design hackathon aims to give designers and other participants the opportunity to build their UX skills by practicing research, prototyping and presenting an innovative to empower and uplift us into brighter and more equitable future. • Ideated and proposed design branding vision and guidelines • Coordinated amongst officer team to delegate and review designathon deliverables • Defined hackathon vision, workshop schedule, judging, prizes, mentorships etc • Communicated with cross functional sponsors and strengthened corporate sponsorship with Figma • Led social media marketing, resulting in 150+ student registrations within 3 days ### UX Design Lead @ Recess Media Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | Seattle, Washington, United States • Led a 3-person design team to develop and create Recess Media's first website • Conducted competitive analysis of other creative websites to draft the layout and navigation • Oversaw the website creation and execution by communicating with cross-functional team for content and assets ### UX Designer @ NaireAtive Jan 2020 – Jan 2022 | Seattle, Washington, United States NaireAtive is a B2C/B2B telemedicine application platform that simplifies the automation of patient health questionnaire forms. We aim to reduce psychiatric burnout and deliver our solution to underserved clinics, mental health facilities, and hospitals. • Collaborated in a team of 10 including front-end & back-end developers and product managers • Led the UX design team of 2 in translating research and opportunity areas into hi-fi prototypes that streamline the documentation process for patient health questionnaires while maintaining accessibility for older demographics through ADA-compliant solutions • Conducted A/B usability testing with 2 physicians at Seattle Children's Hospital University of Washington Medical Center to inform design decisions and reiterations • Reduced information load and clicks to complete tasks on our platform compared to Epic, the current platform physicians use to document patient health questionnaires ### Product Design Intern @ croftery Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | Seattle, Washington, United States Through Croftery, a B2C/B2B startup, cottage businesses and certified home bakers can connect with local customers. • Worked with the Director of Product Design to create branding and hi-fi prototypes for web and mobile • Designed visual elements, interactions, and maintained high accessibility for the older demographic by using ADA-complaint solutions • Assisted in designing a mobile design system to reduce handoff friction with Figma variants, components, and styles • Assisted in conducting usability tests to analyze the customer experience and brand image • Presented design opportunities to the team that resulted in the prioritization of customer reassurance for potential undelivered orders and checkout solutions to streamline the consumer order experience by 23% ### Product Design Lead @ KiwiLinkApp Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | Seattle, Washington, United States KiwiLink is a B2C start-up Android/iOS app that helps UW students access and find study buddies and creates a social and study-centric environment for our college community that has been impacted by COVID-19. • This project was created, engineered, and designed by a group of UW students. App was released on September 24, 2020 now growing with 1,500 + users • Worked cross-functionally with a group of developers and led a 5-person design team to propose and implement the profile card swipe feature to simplify the process of finding a study buddy • Leveraged insights gathered from our user reviews and beta testing to generate design iterations • Card swipe feature implementation led to a 550% increase of users in its first month of release with over 10,000 total connections made between users • Pioneered the UX team to take the lead on usability testings and present findings to the team ### UX Designer & Researcher @ Design for America Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 | Seattle, Washington, United States • Worked in a 6-person design team to develop an accessible resource system for the LGBTQ community • Conducted research and interviews with members of the LGBTQ community • Synthesized research findings and insights to inform ideation and design decisions ### Director of Design @ Inclusify by Design Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 | Seattle, Washington, United States • Researched inclusive topics in various industries for the new club • Designed posts for social media, now growing with with 91 followers, up 61+ in the past 8 weeks ### Climate Change UX Designer & Researcher @ University of Washington Human Centered Design & Engineering Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 | Seattle, Washington, United States • Conducted user research to increase community participation in the tracking Western red cedar—a tree in PNW forests that offer a unique opportunity to track the effects of climate change in our region • Interviewed communities from an environmental, indigenous, and tree novice background • Prototyped design solutions that promote reflection and care for nature and trees ### UX Researcher @ University of Washington Human Centered Design & Engineering Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | Seattle, WA, United States • Explored design for multi-species care and collaborative survival in cataclysmic climates • Examined emerging design practices that emphasize the interrelations between human and nonhuman factors that have been traditionally ignored in design processes • Created zines to showcase the concept of designing for posthuman ### Product Design Intern @ EvoEco Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | Seattle, Washington, United States EvoEco is a B2B startup that creates and provides interactive bins to show users how to sort their waste and empower businesses' sustainability efforts. • Assisted in the process of revamping EvoEco's website by designing high-fidelity prototypes, using competitive analysis • Created responsive designs for desktop, mobile and iPad view • Redesigned the Evo Bin modal on the website's dashboard to improve the bin selection experience for companies, leading to a 20% increase in user satisfaction ### Ecommerce Business Owner @ Depop Jan 2017 – Jan 2020 ## Education ### Bachelor's degree in Informatics + Human Computer Interaction University of Washington Information School Jan 2021 – Jan 2023 ### Bachelor's degree in Informatics + HCI University of Washington Jan 2019 – Jan 2023 ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/anna-shi - Portfolio: https://mobile.twitter.com/nanash1o_ --- Source: https://flows.cv/annashi JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/annashi/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-30