01 Work
Selected work
Client details anonymised throughout. Screens show prototype sample data.
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Payment links for a gaming operator
Deposit app and agent tool for a system with no web cashier. -
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Let the algorithm choose the amount. Or prove it should.
A configuration page for an algorithm that suggests deposit amounts, and a split test so merchants can see whether it works. -
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Rebuilding a payments dashboard around approval rate
The old one showed how much happened. The rebuild shows whether payments are working. -
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Migrating a rule engine without changing what it does
No new features allowed, so every improvement had to come from structure, naming and grouping. -
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Let merchants change the colours. Not the contrast.
Themes for e-commerce and gaming merchants, and the controls that let them brand a cashier without breaking it. -
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I designed the page. Then I taught two teams to build it without me.
Piloting a new internal page-building tool on Hispanic Heritage Month, then handing the workflow to the teams who run event pages. -
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Amazon Pharmacy Design System
Building a design system for Amazon Pharmacy.
02 Experience
Twenty years, and how they add up
Before design I launched and ran a fashion retailer’s online store and the workflows behind it, growing its profit 120% in two years. That commercial half is why I work on the surfaces where money moves — cashiers, deposits, routing rules, limits and thresholds.
It is also why a lot of my work is about limits. What a merchant can change and what they cannot. When a payment has to be refused with no override. Whether an algorithm’s result can be checked rather than taken on trust.
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2024 — 2026
Senior UX/UI Designer Paysecure
Set the design direction for the cashier on a payments orchestration platform, working with product in London and engineering in India. Owned the work end to end, from requirements through to sign-off on what shipped, and mentored a junior designer from onboarding to independent delivery.
- Rebuilt the platform dashboard around approval and decline rate by payment method. The old one counted transactions; it never showed whether payments were succeeding. Live in the React platform.
- Redesigned the rule engine for its move to React. Routing rules are written by operations staff, not engineers, and no new features were allowed — so every improvement came from structure, naming and grouping.
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2023 — 2025
UX Design Mentor GoIT
Mentored students moving into UX. Reviewed and graded assignments against a course rubric, wrote individual feedback on each submission, and taught the fundamentals of research, structure and interface design.
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2023 — 2024
Freelance UX/UI Designer Independent
Wireframes, prototypes and design systems for client projects. Presented and defended design decisions directly to clients.
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2014 — 2023
Amazon
Nine years, moving from production design into motion, then into the systems other teams built with.
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2019 — 2023
UI Designer Amazon
Designed campaign and store landing pages across European and North American markets, in multiple languages — then turned that production into templates other teams could run themselves.
- Piloted a new page-building tool for two US cultural events. Identified the features it was missing, worked with a design technologist to extend it, then documented the workflow and trained the two stakeholder teams to run it. Page execution went from 14 days to 3, graphics needed from 56 to 14, and the stakeholder teams’ own effort for an event page from three weeks to one.
- Built five templates and an SOP for an international product team so they could build their own storefronts: one build rendering to desktop, tablet and mobile, with live text over banners for localisation and screen readers. 14 hours saved across five marketplaces.
- Defined a 23-component design system for Amazon Pharmacy that reached around 300 pages, specified against WCAG contrast requirements with pass and fail documented per text size.
- Cut development iterations 30% by introducing wireframes and prototypes for stakeholder alignment before build.
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2017 — 2019
Motion Designer Amazon
Ran end-to-end video editing for product content. Assessed video coverage and quality in customer experience review groups, and wrote the SOPs that defined new operational workflows.
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2014 — 2017
Senior Graphic Designer Amazon
Held image defect rate at 0.3% by writing 10+ Photoshop scripts and actions that standardised the workflow.
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2006 — 2014
Online Store Manager Nelmar
Launched the company’s online store, built the operating workflows behind it, and grew profit 120% in two years. Ran it for eight years, owning merchandising, digital campaigns and customer retention.
03 Contact
Get in touch
The quickest way to reach me is email. I am happy to walk through any of the work in detail, including the parts that did not ship.
- Emaillaiuandreea3@gmail.com
- LinkedInandreea-laiu
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