Summer Xu

Summer Xu

Senior Product Designer

7+ years designing digital products across e-commerce, product discovery, onboarding, and design systems.

Previously at Wayfair, Ontario Lottery and Gaming, and Jobster.

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WORK EXPERIENCE

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Oct 2021 – Mar 2025 · 42 MOS

Wayfair

Senior Product Designer

Browse Team · Mar 2024 – Mar 2025 · 13 MOS

Redesigned the browse experience end to end, improving product CTR by 25.9%, user engagement by 23%, and filter interaction by 14%.

Scaled browse patterns to the UK, Germany, Ireland, and four Special Retail Brands, improving cross-brand and cross-geo design efficiency by 25%.

Redesigned B2B enrollment, increasing completion by 23% and reducing average session time by 30%.

Proposed an AI-powered browse concept through research, workshops, and prototypes. Projected impact: approximately 25% better discoverability and 30% less search time.

Design Systems Team · Oct 2021 – Mar 2024 · 30 MOS

Evolved Homebase across web, iOS, and Android, supporting eight themes for Wayfair, Wayfair Professional, internal tools, suppliers, and retail brands.

Delivered 8+ new components and refined 5+. Rebuilt the asset library, reducing variants by 60%+ and improving design efficiency by 35%.

Audited and updated 12+ app components for WCAG compliance. Implemented six semantic color tokens and contributed to spacing, motion, and geo-token standards.

Mentored an apprentice and created iconography guidelines and playbooks for 200+ stakeholders, reducing cross-tool friction by 40%.

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Feb 2020 – Sep 2021 · 20 MOS

Ontario Lottery and Gaming

Senior Product Designer

OLG

Launched Guest Checkout across web and app. Research, prototyping, and usability testing helped reduce checkout time by 35%, increase new-user conversion by 21%, and raise mobile purchase volume by approximately 15%.

Led early-stage UX for Digital Group Play and Lottery Gifting. Secured leadership buy-in and roadmap approval for Digital Group Play, with projected gains of 18% in new-player acquisition and 25% in group-play engagement.

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Mar 2018 – Feb 2020 · 24 MOS

Jobster.io

Product Designer · Founding designer

Joined after a hackathon as the founding designer. Designed and launched customer-facing and admin interfaces, establishing the platform’s core UI, UX, and brand identity.

Provided UX and branding guidance that improved user registration by 20% month over month and supported growth from 5 to 100+ employees.

EDUCATION

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University of Waterloo

Bachelor of Global Business & Digital Arts, Honours

SKILLS

Conversational AI Tools

Google Stitch · ChatGPT · CodeX · Magic Patterns · MidJourney

Design & Research

UI/UX · Mobile & responsive web · Information architecture · Prototyping · Design systems · Accessibility · Competitive analysis · A/B testing · Interviews · Usability testing · Qualitative & quantitative research

Tools

Figma · Miro · Adobe XD & Creative Suite · ProtoPie · Principle · Blender · Sketch

Technology

HTML · CSS · JavaScript · Git & GitHub · AJAX · JSON

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