Instant Pickup on Amazon App


Supervised user research, ideation and design of "Instant Pickup" enabling customers to order online from a curated selection of hundreds of convenience items available immediately at nearby Amazon Campus Pickup locations.

Customer Problem

Customers were asking for a way to engage with Amazon to buy items on the spot during their visit to Amazon Campus pickup locations.

Business Goal

Use existing resources and experience to enable customers to choose and buy hundreds of convenience items during their visit to Amazon Campus pickup locations.

Final Impact

1. Rate of customer conversion reached 28% during Q1 2018.
2. Downstream impact on Prime and Student Prime.
3. Shortest order fulfilment time in Amazon's history (1 minute 23 seconds from order to delivery)

My Role + Team Credits + News

My role: Led UX design process & creative direction, design reviews, cross-team collaboration and alignment.
Credits: Tine W (UX Design), Carlye C (UX Design), Peter P (Visual Design)
Press Coverage: CNET, Reuters, CBS, Arstechnica and CNN

Design Phases and Customer Goals


Instant Pickup (IP) was conceived in 2015 and overall design and development of various modules was spread over four phases from 2016 to 2017.

Phase I - Instant Pickup Upsell Widget

Enable customers to discover and add Instant Pickup items to their current pickup while waiting at Amazon Pickup location.

Phase II - Instant Pickup Browsing Experience

Enable customers to browse categories and buy Instant Pickup items on Amazon Mobile App.

Phase III - Search Integration

Enable customers to search and buy Instant Pickup items anytime on Amazon Mobile App.

Phase IV - Dynamic Location Selector

Enable customers to change their location dynamically to shop Instant Pickup items while traveling.

Phase I - Instant Pickup Upsell Widget


Goal - Enable customers to browse and add Instant Pickup items to their current pickup while they're waiting at Amazon Pickup location.

Step 1 - User Research & Analysis Through Empathy Mapping

Finding - Customers wanted to utilize waiting time for their pickup in doing something meaningful.

Finding - When bored while waiting, all customers turned to their mobile devices, which indicated that Instant Pickup needs to be on mobile.

Step 2 - Paper Prototyping

Step 3 - Final User flow of Instant Pickup Upsell Widget

Phase II - Instant Pickup Browsing Experience on Amazon Mobile


Goal - Enable customers to browse categories and buy Instant Pickup items on Amazon Mobile App.
Since we were using UX and Visual Design patterns from Amazon Design System, we skipped paper prototyping and wireframing, and created final designs.

Phase III - Search Integration


Goal - Enable customers to search and buy Instant Pickup items anytime on Amazon Mobile App.

Step 1 - Brainstorming and Ideation

Step 2 - Paper Prototyping

Step 3 - Final User Flow for Search Integration in Instant Pickup

Phase IV - Dynamic Location Selector


Goal - Enable customers to change their location dynamically to shop Instant Pickup items while traveling.

Step 1 - Brainstorming and Ideation

Step 2 - Final User Flow of Dynamic Location Selector in Instant Pickup

Design Deliverables


Selected samples from actual deliverables (Functional and visual specs as well as design assets), which we created for development.