AMAZON

Unified
Payments Experience

A strategic redesign of the end-to-end UX to resolve top customer painpoints. Delivering a fast, secure, and scalable system that drove business results across all surfaces.

Years
2021-26

Role
UX Lead

Impact
Delivered an Amazon Store CEO-level UX initiative, shipping 10+ UX patterns serving 300MM+ customers, and driving 1B+ scale annual commerce impact¹.

PROBLEM

Fragmented UX & wasted resources

Siloed Legacy: 10+ years of disjointed build-up across 100+ payment methods.

High Waste: Massive engineering churn from reinventing redundant interfaces.

Result: Unscalable UX and fragmented user journeys.

STRATEGY

Unify and Governance at Scale

Shifted from local silos to a centralized global framework, establishing governance for consistent, accessible, and scalable interactions.

PRINCIPLES

Design at Scale

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Unified

Modern CX, universal application. Consistent experiences across surfaces.

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Trustworthy

Designing for confidence. Enhancing security, accessibility, and ease-of-use to build customer trust.

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Scalable

Build once, reuse everywhere. A modular system designed to scale across all geos and surfaces.

Leadership buy-in

When the UX and Product teams presented this system problem and a 5 year plan to Amazon’s senior leadership on the customer problem, it immediately got buy-in and strong reaction


“Why aren’t we even doing this?”

Former Amazon CEO, Worldwide Consumer
Former Amazon CEO, Worldwide Consumer

Road to land the Vision

Strategic Influence

Promote adoption and enthusiasm for UX best practices.
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THE SOLUTIONS

Global UX Patterns

To tackle this fragmentation at scale, we need to move to away from page-level fixes to a system of Global UX Patterns.Driving a unified global upgrade through modular design. Below are selected UX patterns that I led defined and shipped.

    Card Entry

    Redesigned registration form with error validation and security messaging.

    Business Impact: 9-Figure Scale

    Balances

    New UI widget for balance-based methods on Amazon Stores.

    Business Impact: 9-Figure Scale

    Use BNPL

    Unified and simplified payment plan selection in a bottomsheet.

    Business Impact: 8-Figure Scale

    1-Click BNPL

    1 click to use BNPL versus 6 clicks in the previous experience.

    Business Impact: 9-Figure Scale

    Discounts / Fees

    Defined messaging styles for payment discounts and fees

    Business Impact: 9-Figure Scale

    Smart Checkout

    ML powered adaptive checkout flow and smart payment choices.

    Business Impact: 8-Figure Scale

    BNPL - Mixed Items

    UX pattern for items with different interest rates (0% APR vs. Interest).

    Business Impact: 8-Figure Scale

    BNPL Hosted UX

    Hosting partner experience on Amazon to drive conversion and reduce drop off

    Business Impact: 9-Figure Scale

    BNPL Buying Option

    New pattern 2026 rolling out in emerging countries

    Business Impact: 9-Figure Scale in 3 yrs

    Search

    Payment link buying option autocomplete and fast add to cart from Search

    Business Impact: 8-Figure Scale

    OUTCOMES

    Launched across 9 regions, enabling
    1 billion+ scale annual commerce impact¹

    Led end-to-end UX design for a global payment experience.

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    Detail 1
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    Hand Phone
    Mobile UI 2
    Laptop
    UI 3
    UI 4
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    Flow Chart
    Comp A
    Comp B
    Mobile UI 5
    List UI
    Installments
    Buttons 1
    Buttons 2
    Dark Mode
    TV Interface
    Smart Object
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    PROJECTS

    Amazon Affordability and Discovery

    ServiceLink Inspect Suite