Amy Bousamra

Overview: Redesigned a vacation products promotional page into a medical benefits interface, demonstrating design adaptability across industries.

Challenge: Prove that well-structured UI patterns can be repurposed across vastly different domains while maintaining usability and visual coherence.

Design & UX Thinking: Retained the proven layout hierarchy and interaction patterns from travel UI while adapting imagery, color, and messaging for healthcare context. Used grayscale medical photography for professional tone.

Technical Approach: Migrated from jQuery/HTML to React with TypeScript while preserving original CSS. Maintained semantic HTML structure for accessibility and SEO.

Interaction & Motion: Interactive card expansions, horizontal scrolling carousels, and tabbed navigation provide familiar interaction patterns users expect from modern interfaces.

Outcome: Showcases ability to adapt existing designs to new contexts—a valuable skill for agencies and teams managing multiple brands or industries.

Overview: Customized travel membership templates and co-branded sites for multiple enterprise clients.

Challenge: Rapidly implement client and marketing team requests while maintaining code quality, cross-browser compatibility, and brand consistency across co-branded properties.

Design & UX Thinking: Balanced business requirements with user experience, ensuring promotional content didn't compromise usability. Prioritized mobile responsiveness for travelers booking on-the-go.

Technical Approach: HTML5, CSS3, and jQuery stack. Implemented modular CSS patterns for efficient co-brand theming. Debugged cross-browser issues and optimized performance.

Interaction & Motion: Smooth scrolling, hover states, and transition effects aligned with brand guidelines while enhancing perceived performance.

Outcome: 4+ years of production experience delivering features on deadline, debugging live issues, and collaborating with marketing stakeholders.

Overview: Front-end development for Travel + Leisure's premium membership platform.

Challenge: Deliver responsive, pixel-perfect implementations of design specifications while ensuring optimal performance across all devices and browsers.

Design & UX Thinking: Focused on maintaining brand consistency with Travel + Leisure's editorial quality. Ensured touch-friendly interactions for mobile users and clear visual hierarchy for content-heavy pages.

Technical Approach: Responsive layouts using CSS Grid and Flexbox. JavaScript/jQuery for interactive components. Collaborated with design team to translate Figma specs to production code.

Interaction & Motion: Implemented smooth transitions and micro-interactions that align with the premium brand experience without impacting page performance.

Outcome: Contributed to a polished membership platform serving Travel + Leisure's subscriber base with consistent, accessible user experiences.

Overview: AI-powered culinary app helping users discover personalized drink pairings for their meals.

Challenge: Learn React.js while building a functional, user-friendly application. Leverage AI tools to accelerate development without sacrificing code quality.

Design & UX Thinking: Prioritized simplicity—users input a dish and receive instant pairing suggestions. Clean interface minimizes friction between question and answer.

Technical Approach: Built with React.js, collaborating with AI tools (ChatGPT, Claude, Replit) to accelerate learning and problem-solving. Demonstrates modern AI-assisted development workflow.

Interaction & Motion: Immediate feedback on user input with smooth result transitions. Mobile-first responsive design for kitchen-friendly usage.

Outcome: Personal project demonstrating initiative, self-directed learning, and growing proficiency in modern React development and AI integration.

Overview: Maintained and enhanced user experience for RCI's large-scale timeshare exchange platform.

Challenge: Optimize existing codebase while implementing new features requested by business and marketing teams under tight deadlines.

Design & UX Thinking: Balanced stakeholder requests with user needs, advocating for usability improvements alongside promotional features. Ensured consistent experience across the platform's extensive page inventory.

Technical Approach: JavaScript, jQuery, and CSS debugging and optimization. Image editing in Photoshop for web performance. Worked within established codebase patterns while improving code quality.

Interaction & Motion: Enhanced existing interactions with smoother transitions and better loading states. Fixed animation bugs affecting user experience.

Outcome: Reliable delivery of features and fixes for a major travel platform, demonstrating ability to work effectively within large, established codebases.