Echo Buds

2017-2019
Team(s): Alexa International, Alexa cross-org design leads
Role: Lead UX Designer (voice, interaction, gesture) for International.
Activities: Voice + multimodal interaction design, user research & testing, privacy compliance.
Product(s): Echo Buds

I was a lead stakeholder on defining overall UX and owned multilingual/internationalization use cases for pre-launch Echo Buds which launched October 2019. I worked cross-functionally and cross-organizationally with executive leadership, program management, UX design owners (voice, screen, sound), industrial designers (Lab126/Echo Devices), software engineers, privacy, legal, and PR/marketing teams.

Work included:

System-level product definition for voice/screen/gestural UX in collaboration with cross-Alexa UX design owners, e.g. sound design, features (e.g. fitness, Music, smart home) and industrial design teams.
Future-proofed functional specification for multilingual/translation use cases to extend functionality to mobile + wearable use, incl. novel privacy and legal considerations, connectivity resilience, and gestural UI.
Designed and ran user research and testing for multilingual, multi-person, international use cases.