Anna Atiagina, Sr UX Designer

LinkedIn | atiagina [at] gmail.com | Seattle, WA 

Senior UX Designer with 7+ years of end-to-end design experience leading foundational vision for cutting-edge platforms in ambiguous, high-growth domains. Specialized in AI (ASOR, Workday declarative agent for Microsoft Copilot), Conversational UX (Amazon Alexa and Workday), and complex enterprise integrations (Workday with Microsoft Teams and Slack).

Expertise includes translating advanced AI principles (LLMs, A2A protocols) into scalable, user-centric experiences, driving the foundational design for the Workday Agent System of Record (ASOR). Proven ability to deliver measurable product impact, contributing to a 130% increase in Workday Everywhere Monthly Active Users (MAU) over two years, as well as significant impact on UX as a part of Alexa Music Growth Team with some of the experiments leading up to 300% growth for Alexa music features,

Workday

AI Experiences Design Team | Sr UX Designer | April 2025 – present
Connected Experiences Design | Sr UX Designer | May 2022 – April 2025

Executive Presentations, Vision Assets, & External Impact 

• Drove Workday Integration’s AI vision narrative at Workday Rising (2023, 2024, and 2025), creating demo videos and prototypes for Workday x Microsoft Copilot integrations and Workday apps for Slack and Microsoft Teams.

• My work on the Workday Agent System of Record (ASOR) was featured at the main stage Innovation Keynote at Rising 2025 and jointly presented by leaders from Microsoft and Workday.

• Designs for Workday agent for Microsoft Copilot were featured in Satya Nadella’s keynote address at the Microsoft Build conference (May 2025). 

• Created hero videos, animations (e.g., ASOR Hero Video), and production assets across several products (Copilot integration, Slack, Google Agentspace integration) shown on the Expo Hall floor, website, and during sessions/presentations at Workday events such as Rising, Innovation Summit, DevCon. 

• Facilitated an in-person workshop with a large enterprise customer to identify key customer needs related to enterprise AI usage within the Workday/Microsoft ecosystem. 

Agent System of Record (ASOR) 

• Spearheaded the foundational direction and MVP for the Agent System of Record (ASOR), the "source of truth for enterprise agents," through design-driven exploration in highly ambiguous environments. (original press release | press release )

• Under time pressure (under 4 weeks from the project kickoff to the start of development) delivered V1 flows and mockups that served as the blueprint for development and Workday's DevCon presentations. 

• V1 work to support Workday ASOR and Microsoft Copilot Studio integration announced at Workday Rising 2025 (press release)

Microsoft Copilot Integration & Connected Experiences 

• Led the design and integration of Workday into Microsoft 365 Copilot, providing guidance on discovery and interaction patterns for the Early Adopter (EA) launch. 

• Supported the transition to the new declarative agents UI paradigm for Copilot integration (press release)

• Supported the Copilot EA program launch (kicked off April), which engaged 10 initial customers and was later broadened to include ~100 additional customers. 

Workday Everywhere: Task Management & Scalable Notifications 

• Drove the design, planning, and General Availability (GA) launch of the My Tasks experience in Microsoft Teams (completed Sept 2024) and completed the Slack tasks experience design by October 27, 2023.  The enhanced My Tasks GA in Slack resulted in 20% of users approving time off directly in the modal (new UX). 

• Designed the WE Notification Framework and guidelines for end-user preferences and configurations to optimize notification volume and quality. 

• Championed the Weekly Summary concept for batching notifications, sharing the concept cross-functionally across Workday teams (Oct 2023). Achievement Highlight: Filed a patent application with a Workday Everywhere software engineer related to dealing with high volume notifications.

Amazon

UX Designer II | Multimodal & VUI

Alexa Core, Seattle, WA (March 2020 – May 2022)

• Global Navigation: Led a 2-year long, ambiguous workstream defining the navigation strategy (voice and touch) for Echo Show devices; successfully shipped an updated navigation tray and defined groundwork for the larger workstream later continued by the team.

• Multimodal Core: Designed the UI for the Face Mapping Flow (Alexa Visual ID) shipped on Echo Show devices. Collaborated on the Smart Motion Collision Pattern for the Echo Show 10.

• Supported Alexa Widgets launch by creating templates for selected domain use cases and a sticky sheet library to ensure consistency across interaction flows.

Alexa Entertainment (Music), Seattle, WA (August 2018 – February 2020)

• Growth Team: Served as the end-to-end UX Designer for the Music Growth team, building a new process for documenting customer feedback and leading the design of 40+ high-velocity A/B experiments.

  • Experiments resulted in significant metric gains, including up to 300% growth for some music features, a 29% increase in music dialogues, and an 11% increase in Music Active Days.

• Future of Music Vision: Organized and co-facilitated a 5-day vision sprint reviewed by VP and Director leadership, leading to the exploration of proactive media portability experiences.

• Media Portability workstreams: collaborated (with teams across Amazon) on a multi-year initiative to make Alexa media experiences seamless across devices — enabling users to start, move, and continue music effortlessly through voice, presence, or touch. Key Projects:

  • Alexa Guest Connect: Designed account-linking and personalization flows allowing guests to access their own music on shared devices; delivered high-fidelity prototypes for research, videos for leadership reviews etc. Launched globally in February 2020, deprecated in December 2025 in favor of newer AI Alexa features.

  • Move Music with Voice: Created interaction models and VUI prompts for frictionless transitions of playback between devices using natural speech.

  • Follow-Me Music (Presence): Explored presence-aware playback, integrating location and sensor data to let music “follow” users between rooms.

  • Auto Everywhere Group: Partnered with engineering to launch proactive device grouping; grew multi-room music groups from 3.5 M → 10.6 M (+200 %) within a week, +80 % traffic uplift, all without external marketing.

  • Move Music with Touch: Defined IA, own low-/high-fidelity flows for the media portability center and collaborated with other design teams embedded UIs for cross-device media control on smart displays (Echo Show 8, 10, 15); first Alexa multimodal project fully transitioned to Figma.

Other

Skills & Development

Core Expertise: UX/UI Design, AI/Conversational UX (VUI/GUI), Figma, Prototyping (Figma, Lovable), Design Systems, Cross-Functional Teamwork. 

AI Prototyping & Technical Acumen: 

• Fluent user of Lovable, able to create complex prototypes, including those involving agent orchestration logic. 

• Attended Maven classes on AI prototyping for Product Designers (May 2025). 

• Actively developing expertise in leveraging AI-powered UX tools for rapid high-fidelity prototyping and accelerating idea generation. 

• Acquired deep technical knowledge of AI principles (A2A protocols, LLMs) necessary for engaging with numerous parallel teams (e.g., low-code agent creation, Ingenuity) and unifying the ASOR vision. 

• Contributed to Workday’s overall AI design strategy by authoring internal documentation detailing the AI Experience Advisor Responsibilities and Process (Consultation, Standardization, and Pattern Development). 

Mentorship & Community Leadership: 

• Served as a UX mentor in the Diversity for Design (DxD) program for the Spring 2023 and Fall 2023 cohorts. 

• UX coaching at Seattle Central College, April 2023.

• ESL Teacher
 at Assiciation Anaroz
 Marrakesh, Morocco 2019

• Tutor in HTML/CSS/ Wordpress at Seattle Central College
 Seattle, WA 2017–2018

• Translator/Assistant
 at Global Impact Program
 Sacred Valley, Peru 2015

• Digital Marketing Intern at Fundacion Tango Argentino
 Buenos Aires, Argentina 2014

Education & Certifications: 

• Graphic Design Associate in Applied Science Degree, 2018 | Seattle Central Creative Academy 

• Web Design Certificate, 2016 | Seattle Central Community College 

• Linguistics Candidate of Sciences Degree (M.S.), 2014 | Omsk State University, Russia (with joint research and collaboration on the Natural Language Processing project with the engineering department from the Universidad Autonoma del Estado de Mexico, Toluca)

• Specialist in Public Relations (B.A.), 2009 | Omsk State University

Languages: 

• English – Bilingual; full professional proficiency

• Russian – Native proficiency

• Spanish – Advanced reading and conversational proficiency (limited recent use)