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Sophie Woods
Senior UX Designer with experience in research, flows, interaction quality, accessibility, and user outcomes. Practical work includes Interaction design, Prototyping, User research, Accessibility.
Experience
Amazon
Seattle · United States
Senior UX Designer
Jan 2021 - now
- As workstream lead, combined UX research with prototyping of a financial task, comparing labels and recovery paths in Sketch; changed the flow when participants mistook a saved draft for a submitted request.
- With responsibility for the review standard, tested typography and layout in an HTML and CSS prototype with long names, zoom, and narrow screens; adjusted reading order and inline errors so the task remained understandable without the desktop layout.
- Observed users completing a multi-step task, separated navigation failures from comprehension issues, and retested the revised flow with the same task wording.
- Owned a user-research prototype using wireframes and usability tasks, resolved navigation ambiguity and increased unassisted completion from 6 to 9 of 10 participants.
- Published an HTML interaction specification using keyboard and screen-reader checks, enabling engineers to reproduce focus order and validation states before implementation.
Adobe
San Jose · United States
UX Designer
Mar 2016 - Dec 2020
- Paired with analytics to monitor 5 journey outcomes after launch; aligned review standards and decision owners across the participating teams. Working with partner teams, gave support and product owners a clearer follow-up path.
- Annotated the delivered design with spacing, type and interaction decisions, reviewed the first implementation with engineering, and corrected differences that affected comprehension or accessibility.
- Tested a revised layout with realistic long text, empty content and error states, annotated the places where the hierarchy broke down, and adjusted labels and spacing while preserving the established design system.
Selected project
UX Designer — independent case study
Cross-functional project lead
Mar 2023 - Jul 2023
- Specified keyboard, focus, validation, and recovery states for 19 complex components; aligned review standards and decision owners across the participating teams
- Created a self-directed design brief with a defined audience, content hierarchy and accessibility constraints; compared distinct visual directions using the same content rather than changing the message with each mockup.
- Checked the chosen design at its intended display or print size, annotated readability and contrast problems, and delivered editable source files with typography, color and export specifications.
- Owned the independent design review using actual-size proofs, resolved contrast and reading-order defects and completed an annotated before-and-after specification.
Education
University of Cincinnati
Cincinnati, Ohio · United States
B.S. Communication Design
Sep 2008 - Jun 2012
Relevant coursework: Typography, visual communication, interaction design, design research
Skills
Role expertise
Interaction design · Prototyping · User research · Accessibility · Design systems · Figma
Certifications
IAAP Certified Professional in Accessibility Core Competencies (CPACC)
International Association of Accessibility Professionals
Nov 2023
Publications
- Published a personal design case study using the prototype test record, explaining how audience needs changed the hierarchy and documenting the accessibility limits of the final design.


