Lead UX Designer. Co-founder of the Alexa Design System team, setting the vision and strategy for how to scale Alexa experiences, features, and behaviors across devices, backed by code. Focus on TV experiences and enabling agent experiences, including agent to agent handling. Key projects include: Alexa on TVs and Alexa Skills for any device.
Alexa on TVs
Ask: Redesign Alexa on TVs to better fit the media viewing experience so that Alexa doesn’t stop a video when asked a question. Deliverables: New set of templates and behaviors that work on TVs and scale to smart displays. Redesigned so that when media is playing, Alexa only gives a visual response (ie doesn’t talk) and the visual response doesn’t take up the full screen.
Alexa Skills across device
Ask: Enable internal and external teams to easily create Alexa Skills for any device, including wearables, phones, tablets, smart displays, TVs, and PCs. Deliverable: New set of templates and the ability to write custom markup to design any experience
FX’s Alexa Skill is uniquely optimized for TVs and smart displays using design system componentry.