Alice Zhao | Product Designer

Currently leading the UX for AWS AI and storage agentic experience. Previously built design systems and enterprise applications at Morgan Stanley, Siemens, the National Science Foundation, and more.

Selected work

Amazon Web Services

2021 - current

Leading the UX for the AWS AI-native database experiences. Led UX for S3 Tables and SLG from concept to launch, driving a 10% WoW storage increase.

AWS S3 Tables: turn big data into insights in one click

I led the UX for S3 Tables, shaping its core user experience, from concept to launch in 8 weeks, resulting in 500+ TB stored in the first 6 months.

Design leadFrom concept to launchCloud infrastructure

Amazon Q assistant

I led UX for an agentic layer that makes AWS purpose-driven, not service-driven, reducing task completion time by 20%.

Lead UX DesignerAIFrom concept to launch

Simplifying data access: Unifying 3 endpoint products into 1

As sole designer, I led and delivered the design that merged 3 storage services into one, cutting months of setup to minutes.

Sole designerCloud infrastructurefrom concept to launchAPI

Previous work

Amazon Alexa

2020 - 2021

Alexa+

Morgan Stanley

2020

E*Trade enhanced digital experience Wealth management platform

Insperity

2017 - 2020

Insperity HR 360 Suite Insperity official website

Siemens

2017

Teamcenter PLM software

Purdue University

2015-2017

The National Science Foundation research portal

About

I'm Alice (Liang) Zhao, a UX Lead at Amazon , where I work on the storage agentic experience. I enjoy turning complex products and technologies into intuitive and customer-focused experience. Outside of work, I love to explore nature and capture everyday moments through photography.