Sam Ryan

I’m a principal product designer working on the Kindle reader experience. I like working with people to make friendly, accessible, and successful software projects. I use this site to keep track of some of my work and the books I’m reading.

Selected work

Storm design system

Lead designer for Amazon Ads' design system, supporting a $50B/year business across 890+ software projects. Built documentation, Figma libraries, and led adoption for a 100+ person design org.

Amazon Ads API

Redesigned the developer documentation site for Amazon Ads API integrators. Shipped new navigation, mobile support, and a dashboard for tracking application metrics.

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Reading list

Since 2009, I’ve been keeping a list of all the books I read, and occasionally posting highlights, short reviews, and summaries of them. Here’s this year’s list. Here’s the overview page.

These are the last six books I finished: