About

I work like a product person who designs. Start from customer pain and business goals, name the behavior that has to change, then let research and experiments settle what opinions can't.

Most of my career has been commerce: e-commerce for a footwear brand, five years at Booking.com on Search Results and Attractions, four years building HEINEKEN's global B2B ordering platform. Now I lead design for Proof at Southern Glazer's, where bars, restaurants, and retailers order from North America's largest drinks distributor.

The through-line is complexity: many markets, many roles, legacy systems, and a catalog that never stops moving. The work I like is making that legible: taking on the undefined parts, proving out what's worth building, and keeping the bar high while it ships.

Delete before adding

Tablet at Booking.com had its own codebase, with separate bugs, legal exposure, and traffic falling 8.5% year over year. I built the case to retire it rather than keep maintaining it, and ran tablet on the mobile stack under a single rule: no tablet-only components. The migration still cost conversion 0.83% against control, down from −2.5% in early tests. It freed four teams' roadmaps, and every mobile release has shipped to tablet by default since.

Consistent by default

HEINEKEN had 35+ markets, each with its own site and its own queue of exceptions. We built one configurable frontend and made each market argue for its local variation against the outcome it would change. Some markets lost things they liked. The alternative was maintaining 35 of everything, forever.

Easy creates usage

Vertical checklists made Booking's mobile filters fast to multi-select, and people immediately over-filtered into zero results. The answer wasn't fewer filters; it was a persistent screen with Clear and Close, so nobody hit a dead end. Three sequential experiments: +0.74% filter usage, +1.66% bookings after filtering, +0.52% overall conversion.

Ownership out loud

Growing HEINEKEN's design team from 2 to 13 meant the org chart stopped being obvious. Product-aligned teams, vertical ownership, horizontal alignment through shared experience tenets, and a fixed cadence: weekly critique, bi-weekly review, monthly showcase. It costs a standing block of meeting time, and it moves problems out of QA and into crit.

2026—Now
Principal Designer, Southern Glazer's Wine & Spirits

Design lead for Proof, the B2B commerce platform where bars, restaurants, and retail stores order from North America's largest beverage alcohol distributor.

2024—2026
Product Design Manager, HEINEKEN

Managed the design team behind eazle, scaling design practice across global markets and coaching designers through ambiguous problems.

2022—2024
Senior Product Designer, HEINEKEN

Led design across multiple B2B products in diverse markets. Helped grow the team from 2 to 13 and set up how it worked.

2017—2022
UX Designer, Booking.com

Owned parts of Search Results and Attractions. Ran experiments on filters, listings, and merchandising; led the move to a mobile-first responsive system.

EarlierShoes For Crews, New Image Labs, Green Group Studio. Full history on LinkedIn →
Skills

B2B commerce, Platforms and design systems, Experimentation and A/B testing, Product strategy, AI in design workflows, Research-driven iteration, Design operations and team leadership.

Tools

Figma, v0, Cursor, Google Analytics, HTML/CSS, Jira.

BasedUnited States
FocusB2B commerce, platforms, design systems
Experience15 years in B2B and B2C commerce
EducationBFA Graphic Design, Cum Laude, Lynn University
Talk to me aboutexperimentation, product strategy, AI in design workflows. hello@andrewslifkin.com
“He also brings the right balance of openness and assertiveness. Andrew actively seeks out feedback and puts it into action, but he’s equally unafraid to push back respectfully and offer constructive input. That ability to challenge appropriately, while maintaining a collaborative spirit, is a rare and valuable quality.”
Nicole Barilka, Group Director, Product Management at Walmart