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Alexa for shopping on Amazon: left chat side panel with product cards and Add to cart, plus price alerts and auto buy.
Alexa for shopping welcome with How can I help? job cards, question chips, and Ask a shopping question composer.
What's happening
Alexa for shopping is a left chat side panel on Amazon. The agent can return product cards with Add to cart, answer price questions, set price alerts, and arm auto buy.
Patterns
Job cards and shopping question chips
Budget sections with catalog chrome and Add to cart
In-thread Add to cart and Confirm Auto Buy
Quantity, address, payment, and price floor before arming
UX Insights
- •Product cards keep Amazon as the catalog object
- •Price history answers a price question in the thread
- •Alerts graduate into auto buy with an explicit confirm
- •Manage alerts is the durable list, not the transcript
Design Decisions
Amazon put shopping chat on the storefront. Chat ranks and packages. Cart, product pages, alerts, and auto buy stay Amazon objects.
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