Archive resale

Resale Operations

A suite of operational products that enables enterprise brands to run resale programs, including warehouse operations, customer support, merchandising, and inventory intake.

Building a Resale System

Unlike traditional e-commerce, resale operations require managing unique inventory, multiple sourcing models, dynamic listing states, and coordination across brands, warehouses, and customer support. Each item follows a distinct process – from intake and merchandising to purchase, fulfillment, and post-purchase support – demanding systems that remain synchronized throughout.

Each product I designed supported a different part of the resale flow: Admin managed marketplace configuration and merchandising, In-Store Trade-In brought inventory into the system, WMS (Warehouse Management System) tracked inventory through warehouse operations and fulfillment, and CX (Customer Experience) provided support agents with a unified view of customers, orders, listings, and trade-ins. While each product solved distinct operational challenges, they functioned as a connected system, sharing business logic across all touch-points.

Project Overview

About archive resale

Archive is a resale platform that enables enterprise brands to launch and operate branded resale programs. Beyond the customer marketplace, the platform includes operational tools that support inventory, fulfillment, merchandising, and customer support.

the problem

Traditional ecommerce systems assume that products move from a warehouse to a customer along a predictable path. Resale introduces a fundamentally different model: inventory arrives from multiple sources, every item is unique, listings constantly change, and fulfillment varies depending on where an item originated.

As Archive partnered with enterprise brands like IKEA and Peloton, that complexity grew – each partner introduced new operational workflows, inventory models, and business rules that existing systems couldn't support.

MY ROLE

I was the sole designer across Archive's business-facing platforms – WMS, CX, In-Store Trade-In, and Admin – partnering closely with Product, Engineering, and enterprise brand teams to translate ambiguous, fast-changing requirements into workflows built for expert, high-volume users.

In addition to designing interfaces, I defined complex operational systems by documenting business logic, mapping end-to-end workflows, creating shared design patterns, and producing implementation-ready specifications to reduce ambiguity for Product and Engineering. My role often involved making complex system behavior understandable for both end users and internal teams.

The Platform

Admin

Marketplace Configuration

Marketplace

Customer Storefront

WMS

Inventory & Fulfillment

In-Store Trade-In

Inventory Intake

CX App

Customer Operations

While each product served a distinct operational need, they were designed to work as one connected platform, sharing data and business logic across every stage of the resale journey:

  • Admin configured what appeared on the marketplace
  • In-Store Trade-In brought customer inventory into the system
  • WMS managed inventory through check-in, storage, and fulfillment
  • CX unified listings, orders, and trade-ins so support teams could resolve customer issues with complete operational context

The Operational Ecosystem

This connected suite of operational products supports every stage of the resale lifecycle. While Admin is covered in a separate case study, this page highlights the CX, WMS, and In-Store Trade-In products that drive daily operations.

Customer Experience

Many of the hardest design decisions weren't about interface, they were about idenitfying users’ mental models and defining how the product should behave.

Warehouse Management

Manage inventory intake, repairs, storage, and fulfillment for unique resale inventory moving through the warehouse.

In-Store Trade-In

Many of the hardest design decisions weren't about interface, they were about idenitfying users’ mental models and defining how the product should behave.

Admin

Enable merchandising teams to manage products, listings, pricing, collections, and resale program configuration.

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Customer Experience (CX App)

Marketplace Fulfillment Flow

The Challenge

Support agents needed one place to investigate orders, listings, trade-ins, gift cards, and returns without piecing information together across multiple systems.

The deeper I explored the problem, the more I realized the challenge wasn't simply surfacing data – it was that the underlying order logic hadn't been defined. Unlike traditional e-commerce, resale orders could follow five different fulfillment paths depending on where inventory originated, each with different operational states and timelines.

Before designing an effective support experience, I mapped this complexity across the customer marketplace and established a shared model for order movement within the system.

What I designed

  • Mapped the end-to-end order model across the marketplace – including PDP, cart, checkout, and post-purchase experiences – to establish shared business logic
  • Redesigned the CX Orders experience, restructuring information around how support agents investigate cases rather than how customers shop
  • Unified operational context by surfacing order history, listing details, fulfillment status, seller information, gift cards, and returns in one place
  • Designed the Returns experience, building on earlier Trade-In and Returns workflow documentation to provide a foundation for future implementation
  • Created system documentation that was later shared company-wide to help Product and Engineering align on complex operational workflows

Warehouse Management (WMS)

The challenge

Third-party warehouse partners needed to receive, identify, grade, clean, repair, store, and ship unique resale inventory – often processing high volumes of items where no two units were exactly alike.

As operations scaled, existing tools did not keep pace, causing friction in critical warehouse workflows.

What I designed

  • Partnered weekly with our Head of Resale Operations and an engineering lead to identify pain points across multiple warehouse partners, solve operational problems collaboratively, and document scalable design patterns as the platform evolved.
  • Redesigned the photo management experience, making it easier to upload, organize, and review item photography during inventory intake
  • Improved warehouse picking workflows by introducing item photos and clearer information hierarchy to reduce errors and speed fulfillment
  • Designed a more flexible packing experience to support multi-box shipments and more complex fulfillment scenarios
  • Integrated AI guidance into key workflows, providing contextual tips and operational support without disrupting workers' flow
  • Led the WMS visual refresh as part of Archive's company-wide rebrand

Admin App

The Challenge

Traditional merchandising tools assume stable inventory: one product, one price, one stock count. Resale introduced a different model, where a single product could have many unique listings, each with its own seller, condition, price, and lifecycle. Internal Brand Success teams and enterprise partners required flexible tools to manage this complexity independently of Engineering.

What I designed

  • Designed a merchandising admin platform that evolved through strategic phases: Collections, Listings, Listing Review, and Discounts & Seller Incentives
  • Enabled merchandising teams to manage products, listings, merchandising, pricing, and seller incentive programs independendtly
  • Established the shared visual language for Archive's operational ecosystem through the company-wide rebrand of Admin, WMS, and CX

Explore the full Admin case study for details on platform strategy, user research, phased rollout, and design decisions.

View full Case Study

In-Store Trade-In

The challenge

Retail associates – not resale experts – needed to evaluate customer trade-ins quickly and confidently while balancing speed, accuracy, and fraud prevention at the register.

The challenge extended beyond the store experience. Every enterprise brand had different operational requirements: how items should be identified, what hardware was available in-store, how much responsibility associates should have, how customers were compensated, and how accepted inventory moved into the warehouse. The experience needed to flex for each partner while feeding a consistent operational pipeline downstream.

What I designed

  • Designed a guided trade-in experience that helped associates identify customer items and generate estimated trade-in values with confidence.
  • Built configurable workflows that adapted to each brand's operational model, including item identification, available hardware, associate responsibilities, labeling, and customer compensation.
  • Added customer trade-in history to help associates identify repeat or potentially fraudulent trade-ins before accepting inventory.
  • Connected store and warehouse experiences by generating the necessary information for packaging, shipping, and warehouse intake, ensuring accepted items entered the same inventory pipeline as all other inbound products.

Designing for Complexity

Systems Thinking

Mapped complex operational workflows across five fulfillment models, creating a shared framework that aligned the marketplace, CX, WMS, and supporting systems around the same business logic. Turned ambiguous operational requirements into models that Product, Engineering, and Design could build from together.

Operational UX

Designed for expert users performing high-volume, repetitive work, balancing speed with error prevention across warehouse operations, customer support, fulfillment, and in-store trade-in workflows.

Scalable Systems

Built design foundations applicable beyond individual features, including shared components, flow documentation, implementation specifications, and a company-wide visual rebrand across Admin, WMS, and CX. Adapted the system for each environment, from high-contrast functional interfaces to flexible enterprise branding.

Cross-Functional Partnership

Partnered closely with Product, Engineering, Operations, and brands to navigate evolving requirements, align on complex business logic, and deliver scalable solutions across a rapidly growing platform.

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Archive resale

Resale Operations

A suite of operational products that enables enterprise brands to run resale programs, including warehouse operations, customer support, merchandising, and inventory intake.

Building a Resale System

Unlike traditional e-commerce, resale operations require managing unique inventory, multiple sourcing models, dynamic listing states, and coordination across brands, warehouses, and customer support. Each item follows a distinct process – from intake and merchandising to purchase, fulfillment, and post-purchase support – demanding systems that remain synchronized throughout.

Each product I designed supported a different part of the resale flow: Admin managed marketplace configuration and merchandising, In-Store Trade-In brought inventory into the system, WMS (Warehouse Management System) tracked inventory through warehouse operations and fulfillment, and CX (Customer Experience) provided support agents with a unified view of customers, orders, listings, and trade-ins. While each product solved distinct operational challenges, they functioned as a connected system, sharing business logic across all touch-points.

Project Overview

About archive resale

Archive is a resale platform that enables enterprise brands to launch and operate branded resale programs. Beyond the customer marketplace, the platform includes operational tools that support inventory, fulfillment, merchandising, and customer support.

the problem

Traditional ecommerce systems assume that products move from a warehouse to a customer along a predictable path. Resale introduces a fundamentally different model: inventory arrives from multiple sources, every item is unique, listings constantly change, and fulfillment varies depending on where an item originated.

As Archive partnered with enterprise brands like IKEA and Peloton, that complexity grew – each partner introduced new operational workflows, inventory models, and business rules that existing systems couldn't support.

MY ROLE

I was the sole designer across Archive's business-facing platforms – WMS, CX, In-Store Trade-In, and Admin – partnering closely with Product, Engineering, and enterprise brand teams to translate ambiguous, fast-changing requirements into workflows built for expert, high-volume users.

In addition to designing interfaces, I defined complex operational systems by documenting business logic, mapping end-to-end workflows, creating shared design patterns, and producing implementation-ready specifications to reduce ambiguity for Product and Engineering. My role often involved making complex system behavior understandable for both end users and internal teams.

The Platform

Admin

Marketplace Configuration

Marketplace

Customer Storefront

WMS

Inventory & Fulfillment

In-Store Trade-In

Inventory Intake

CX App

Customer Operations

While each product served a distinct operational need, they were designed to work as one connected platform, sharing data and business logic across every stage of the resale journey:

  • Admin configured what appeared on the marketplace
  • In-Store Trade-In brought customer inventory into the system
  • WMS managed inventory through check-in, storage, and fulfillment
  • CX unified listings, orders, and trade-ins so support teams could resolve customer issues with complete operational context

The Operational Ecosystem

This connected suite of operational products supports every stage of the resale lifecycle. While Admin is covered in a separate case study, this page highlights the CX, WMS, and In-Store Trade-In products that drive daily operations.

Customer Experience

Equip support teams with unified visibility into customers’ listings, orders, and trade-ins to investigate issues and resolve cases efficiently.

Warehouse Management

Manage inventory intake, repairs, storage, and fulfillment for unique resale inventory moving through the warehouse.

In-Store Trade-In

Guide store associates through trade-in intake, bringing customer inventory into the resale ecosystem.

Admin

Enable merchandising teams to manage products, listings, pricing, collections, and resale program configuration.

View Project

Customer Experience (CX App)

Marketplace Fulfillment Flow

The Challenge

Support agents needed one place to investigate orders, listings, trade-ins, gift cards, and returns without piecing information together across multiple systems.

The deeper I explored the problem, the more I realized the challenge wasn't simply surfacing data – it was that the underlying order logic hadn't been defined. Unlike traditional e-commerce, resale orders could follow five different fulfillment paths depending on where inventory originated, each with different operational states and timelines.

Before designing an effective support experience, I mapped this complexity across the customer marketplace and established a shared model for order movement within the system.

What I designed

  • Mapped the end-to-end order model across the marketplace – including PDP, cart, checkout, and post-purchase experiences – to establish shared business logic
  • Redesigned the CX Orders experience, restructuring information around how support agents investigate cases rather than how customers shop
  • Unified operational context by surfacing order history, listing details, fulfillment status, seller information, gift cards, and returns in one place
  • Designed the Returns experience, building on earlier Trade-In and Returns workflow documentation to provide a foundation for future implementation
  • Created system documentation that was later shared company-wide to help Product and Engineering align on complex operational workflows

Warehouse Management (WMS)

The challenge

Third-party warehouse partners needed to receive, identify, grade, clean, repair, store, and ship unique resale inventory – often processing high volumes of items where no two units were exactly alike.

As operations scaled, existing tools did not keep pace, causing friction in critical warehouse workflows.

Problem

Warehouse partners needed to check items in, identify what they'd received, grade and clean or repair them, and get them shipped — all for inventory where no two units were quite alike. Tools like the photo app, the picking flow, and the paper scan sheets used for repairs hadn't kept pace with the volume and nuance of the work.

Admin App

The Challenge

Traditional merchandising tools assume stable inventory: one product, one price, one stock count. Resale introduced a different model, where a single product could have many unique listings, each with its own seller, condition, price, and lifecycle. Internal Brand Success teams and enterprise partners required flexible tools to manage this complexity independently of Engineering.

What I designed

  • Designed a merchandising admin platform that evolved through strategic phases: Collections, Listings, Listing Review, and Discounts & Seller Incentives
  • Enabled merchandising teams to manage products, listings, merchandising, pricing, and seller incentive programs independendtly
  • Established the shared visual language for Archive's operational ecosystem through the company-wide rebrand of Admin, WMS, and CX

Explore the full Admin case study for details on platform strategy, user research, phased rollout, and design decisions.

View full Case Study

In-Store Trade-In

The challenge

Warehouse partners needed to check items in, identify what they'd received, grade and clean or repair them, and get them shipped — all for inventory where no two units were quite alike. Tools like the photo app, the picking flow, and the paper scan sheets used for repairs hadn't kept pace with the volume and nuance of the work.

The challenge extended beyond the store experience. Every enterprise brand had different operational requirements: how items should be identified, what hardware was available in-store, how much responsibility associates should have, how customers were compensated, and how accepted inventory moved into the warehouse. The experience needed to flex for each partner while feeding a consistent operational pipeline downstream.

What I designed

  • Designed a guided trade-in experience that helped associates identify customer items and generate estimated trade-in values with confidence.
  • Built configurable workflows that adapted to each brand's operational model, including item identification, available hardware, associate responsibilities, labeling, and customer compensation.
  • Added customer trade-in history to help associates identify repeat or potentially fraudulent trade-ins before accepting inventory.
  • Connected store and warehouse experiences by generating the necessary information for packaging, shipping, and warehouse intake, ensuring accepted items entered the same inventory pipeline as all other inbound products.

Designing for Complexity

Systems Thinking

Mapped complex operational workflows across five fulfillment models, creating a shared framework that aligned the marketplace, CX, WMS, and supporting systems around the same business logic. Turned ambiguous operational requirements into models that Product, Engineering, and Design could build from together.

Scalable Systems

Built design foundations applicable beyond individual features, including shared components, flow documentation, implementation specifications, and a company-wide visual rebrand across Admin, WMS, and CX. Adapted the system for each environment, from high-contrast functional interfaces to flexible enterprise branding.

Operational UX

Designed for expert users performing high-volume, repetitive work, balancing speed with error prevention across warehouse operations, customer support, fulfillment, and in-store trade-in workflows.

Cross-Functional Partnership

Partnered closely with Product, Engineering, Operations, and brands to navigate evolving requirements, align on complex business logic, and deliver scalable solutions across a rapidly growing platform.

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Archive resale

Resale Operations

A suite of operational products that enables enterprise brands to run resale programs, including warehouse operations, customer support, merchandising, and inventory intake.

Building a Resale System

Unlike traditional e-commerce, resale operations require managing unique inventory, multiple sourcing models, dynamic listing states, and coordination across brands, warehouses, and customer support. Each item follows a distinct process – from intake and merchandising to purchase, fulfillment, and post-purchase support – demanding systems that remain synchronized throughout.

Each product I designed supported a different part of the resale flow: Admin managed marketplace configuration and merchandising, In-Store Trade-In brought inventory into the system, WMS (Warehouse Management System) tracked inventory through warehouse operations and fulfillment, and CX (Customer Experience) provided support agents with a unified view of customers, orders, listings, and trade-ins. While each product solved distinct operational challenges, they functioned as a connected system, sharing business logic across all touch-points.

Project Overview

About archive resale

Archive is a resale platform that enables enterprise brands to launch and operate branded resale programs. Beyond the customer marketplace, the platform includes operational tools that support inventory, fulfillment, merchandising, and customer support.

the problem

Traditional ecommerce systems assume that products move from a warehouse to a customer along a predictable path. Resale introduces a fundamentally different model: inventory arrives from multiple sources, every item is unique, listings constantly change, and fulfillment varies depending on where an item originated.

As Archive partnered with enterprise brands like IKEA and Peloton, that complexity grew – each partner introduced new operational workflows, inventory models, and business rules that existing systems couldn't support.

MY ROLE

I was the sole designer across Archive's business-facing platforms – WMS, CX, In-Store Trade-In, and Admin – partnering closely with Product, Engineering, and enterprise brand teams to translate ambiguous, fast-changing requirements into workflows built for expert, high-volume users.

In addition to designing interfaces, I defined complex operational systems by documenting business logic, mapping end-to-end workflows, creating shared design patterns, and producing implementation-ready specifications to reduce ambiguity for Product and Engineering. My role often involved making complex system behavior understandable for both end users and internal teams.

The Platform

Admin

Marketplace Configuration

Marketplace

Customer Storefront

WMS

Inventory & Fulfillment

In-Store Trade-In

Inventory Intake

CX App

Customer Operations

While each product served a distinct operational need, they were designed to work as one connected platform, sharing data and business logic across every stage of the resale journey:

  • Admin configured what appeared on the marketplace
  • In-Store Trade-In brought customer inventory into the system
  • WMS managed inventory through check-in, storage, and fulfillment
  • CX unified listings, orders, and trade-ins so support teams could resolve customer issues with complete operational context

The Operational Ecosystem

This connected suite of operational products supports every stage of the resale lifecycle. While Admin is covered in a separate case study, this page highlights the CX, WMS, and In-Store Trade-In products that drive daily operations.

Customer Experience

Equip support teams with unified visibility into customers’ listings, orders, and trade-ins to investigate issues and resolve cases efficiently.

Warehouse Management

Manage inventory intake, repairs, storage, and fulfillment for unique resale inventory moving through the warehouse.

In-Store Trade-In

Guide store associates through trade-in intake, bringing customer inventory into the resale ecosystem.

Admin

Enable merchandising teams to manage products, listings, pricing, collections, and resale program configuration.

View Project

Customer Experience (CX App)

The Challenge

Support agents needed one place to investigate orders, listings, trade-ins, gift cards, and returns without piecing information together across multiple systems.

The deeper I explored the problem, the more I realized the challenge wasn't simply surfacing data – it was that the underlying order logic hadn't been defined. Unlike traditional e-commerce, resale orders could follow five different fulfillment paths depending on where inventory originated, each with different operational states and timelines.

Before designing an effective support experience, I mapped this complexity across the customer marketplace and established a shared model for order movement within the system.

Marketplace Fulfillment Flow

What I designed

  • Mapped the end-to-end order model across the marketplace – including PDP, cart, checkout, and post-purchase experiences – to establish shared business logic
  • Redesigned the CX Orders experience, restructuring information around how support agents investigate cases rather than how customers shop
  • Unified operational context by surfacing order history, listing details, fulfillment status, seller information, gift cards, and returns in one place
  • Designed the Returns experience, building on earlier Trade-In and Returns workflow documentation to provide a foundation for future implementation
  • Created system documentation that was later shared company-wide to help Product and Engineering align on complex operational workflows

Warehouse Management (WMS)

The challenge

Third-party warehouse partners needed to receive, identify, grade, clean, repair, store, and ship unique resale inventory – often processing high volumes of items where no two units were exactly alike.

As operations scaled, existing tools did not keep pace, causing friction in critical warehouse workflows.

What I designed

  • Partnered weekly with our Head of Resale Operations and an engineering lead to identify pain points across multiple warehouse partners, solve operational problems collaboratively, and document scalable design patterns as the platform evolved.
  • Redesigned the photo management experience, making it easier to upload, organize, and review item photography during inventory intake
  • Improved warehouse picking workflows by introducing item photos and clearer information hierarchy to reduce errors and speed fulfillment
  • Designed a more flexible packing experience to support multi-box shipments and more complex fulfillment scenarios
  • Integrated AI guidance into key workflows, providing contextual tips and operational support without disrupting workers' flow
  • Led the WMS visual refresh as part of Archive's company-wide rebrand

Admin App

The Challenge

Traditional merchandising tools assume stable inventory: one product, one price, one stock count. Resale introduced a different model, where a single product could have many unique listings, each with its own seller, condition, price, and lifecycle. Internal Brand Success teams and enterprise partners required flexible tools to manage this complexity independently of Engineering.

What I designed

  • Designed a merchandising admin platform that evolved through strategic phases: Collections, Listings, Listing Review, and Discounts & Seller Incentives
  • Enabled merchandising teams to manage products, listings, merchandising, pricing, and seller incentive programs independently
  • Established the shared visual language for Archive's operational ecosystem through the company-wide rebrand of Admin, WMS, and CX

Explore the full Admin case study for details on platform strategy, user research, phased rollout, and design decisions.

View full Case Study

In-Store Trade-In

The challenge

Retail associates – not resale experts – needed to evaluate customer trade-ins quickly and confidently while balancing speed, accuracy, and fraud prevention at the register.

The challenge extended beyond the store experience. Every enterprise brand had different operational requirements: how items should be identified, what hardware was available in-store, how much responsibility associates should have, how customers were compensated, and how accepted inventory moved into the warehouse. The experience needed to flex for each partner while feeding a consistent operational pipeline downstream.

What I designed

  • Designed a guided trade-in experience that helped associates identify customer items and generate estimated trade-in values with confidence.
  • Built configurable workflows that adapted to each brand's operational model, including item identification, available hardware, associate responsibilities, labeling, and customer compensation.
  • Added customer trade-in history to help associates identify repeat or potentially fraudulent trade-ins before accepting inventory.
  • Connected store and warehouse experiences by generating the necessary information for packaging, shipping, and warehouse intake, ensuring accepted items entered the same inventory pipeline as all other inbound products.

Designing for Complexity

Systems Thinking

Mapped complex operational workflows across five fulfillment models, creating a shared framework that aligned the marketplace, CX, WMS, and supporting systems around the same business logic. Turned ambiguous operational requirements into models that Product, Engineering, and Design could build from together.

Scalable Systems

Built design foundations applicable beyond individual features, including shared components, flow documentation, implementation specifications, and a company-wide visual rebrand across Admin, WMS, and CX. Adapted the system for each environment, from high-contrast functional interfaces to flexible enterprise branding.

Operational UX

Designed for expert users performing high-volume, repetitive work, balancing speed with error prevention across warehouse operations, customer support, fulfillment, and in-store trade-in workflows.

Cross-Functional Partnership

Partnered closely with Product, Engineering, Operations, and brands to navigate evolving requirements, align on complex business logic, and deliver scalable solutions across a rapidly growing platform.

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