About
I’m Chris West, a Senior UX Designer specializing in consumer AI/ML products and enterprise developer tools. I spend my time translating highly technical systems into clear, customer-centered experiences at scale.
For the past six years at Amazon AWS I've defined and driven UX vision for generative AI, computer vision, and edge computing service. I am currently shaping the next-generation features for Gateways and Policies on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore. I have a track record of delivering measurable outcomes in ambiguous, engineering-driven environments, and of aligning product, engineering, and executive stakeholders around a unified experience strategy.
Before AWS I led experience design at WonderWorkshop, creating award-winning educational robots and apps that teach children to code, and grew from designer to design lead over six years at Disney Interactive on large-scale cross-platform games.
What I do
- UX strategy, design vision & direction
- AI/ML product design & enterprise SaaS for developer tools
- Systems design, information architecture & interaction design
- End-to-end product design, user research & usability testing
Tools & methods
Pen & paper / Whiteboard
Figma for wireframing, design system building and final polished design artifats. In additiona to advanced IC useage, I served as sole AWS Figma admin for 13 months, managing org-level configuration, plugins, and audit scripting across 15k+ users. I work from whiteboard through agentic AI tools to rapidly prototype interactive concepts for stakeholder alignment and author detailed UX vision documents.
Claude code prototyping when needed for concept buy-in, user testing and handoffs.
Outside work
I fly small aircraft. I hold a private pilot certificate, operating under Part 91, and a Part 107 remote pilot certificate for drones.
The rest of my spare time goes into electronics, mostly ESP32 builds that end up wired into a Home Assistant setup that keeps growing.
Get in touch
The best way to reach me is on LinkedIn, or take a look at my résumé.