Andrea Salad
Loom (feat. Bonobo) — Ólafur Arnalds · some kind of peace
Senior Product Designer · Strategy & systems · Imagination & Heart

Hello, I’m Drea

I craft experiences that millions of people love and trust.

I specialize in taking ideas from 0-1 and creating vision work that energizes cross-functional teams. I have a high bar for craft, I think in systems before pixels, and I care deeply about the people using what I create.

Over the past few years, I’ve helped reimagine Zillow’s home search, led design for its first LLM-powered experience, and explored new ways to grow the business through connected experiences and re-engagement.

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1.5B+views a year
Design systems at scale

Property cards

Redesigning Zillow’s most viewed surface (1.5B+ views a year) and the first impression of any home.

The Property Card Redesign went way past the pixels to become an information hierarchy plan, a personalized, journey based surface, AI and multimedia augmented, and a part of every platform’s design system. Accompanied by 30-pages governance and principles documentation that earned C-suite buy-in.

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AI powered product & strategy

Favorites

A 6-week vision sprint leading a team of 4, focused on turning Favorites from a static bookmark into a collaborative decision engine.

This ambiguous problem space became a SLT-endorsed roadmap using OOUX to create alignment in the technical side and AI to explore rich prototypes and de-risk the solutions.

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35Mvisits per month
500Knew account activations from connected invites
Shipped product & strategy

Shared Collections

Design lead for the work stream dedicated to getting shoppers, their partners and their professionals using Zillow together.

The strategy outlined important problems to solve, and the design recommended MVP, Shared Collections, was launched and has driven 500,000 new account activations from connected invites alone, with ongoing investment into 2027.

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Shipped AI product

AskZ AI Chatbot

Zillow’s first conversational AI launch — and I was lucky enough to be the designer!

In addition to the chat UI, I spent time training the model and leveraging my fair housing expertise to do some ‘red teaming’. This successful BETA laid the foundation for what is today’s Zillow AI Mode and spawned the open source, Fair Housing Classifier.

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1stconversational AI launch at Zillow