Advance Auto Parts, Carquest, & Walmart

Led end-to-end UI/UX design for the Advance Auto Parts mobile app during a uniquely complex period: the brand had just completed its acquisition of Carquest, launched a partnership with Walmart, and was simultaneously undergoing a brand refresh — all of which had to be reconciled into a single, cohesive product experience.

I inherited a disorganized set of incomplete Sketch files with no coherent user flow. Before writing a single frame, I conducted two weeks of competitive research across automotive retail and adjacent industries, mapping the existing web experience alongside best-in-class mobile patterns. That research foundation allowed me to quickly earn the trust of the in-house lead designer through a series of test flows, which led to a full collaborative engagement with their internal team.

With creative flexibility and a clear research mandate, I drove the design process from ambiguous early-stage artifacts to a polished, high-fidelity prototype. Key decisions included skipping low-fidelity wireframing entirely in favor of jumping straight to hi-fi — justified by thorough brand familiarity — and building a rigorous competitive moodboard to align stakeholders on direction, style, and flow through structured elimination.

The final product unified a broad and complex feature set — including loyalty/speed perks programs, garage and vehicle management, QR code functionality, store locator, category navigation, and promotional integrations — under a clean, slightly gamified interface designed for ease of use at scale. I also extended the design system to cover Walmart co-branded web pages and advertisements.

All deliverables were migrated to Figma, a design system was established for long-term team scalability, and the app successfully launched and is available for download. The project drew on the full range of my capabilities — information architecture, interaction design, visual design, and custom iconography — and remains one of the most technically and creatively demanding engagements of my career.