I currently work on Windows, where our team focuses on making your PC experience more powerful and delightful with AI, while also scaling new tooling across the studio.
I'm a self-taught designer with an engineering background, specializing in simple and effortless experiences for both the devices we use today and the ones we'll use in the future. Crafting high-quality products that people love to use is my passion, and I work tirelessly to achieve that goal.
Using the medium of motion and rapid prototyping I bring these experiences to life, visualizing the smallest interactions to entire user journeys. I strongly believe in open design, and encourage co-creation that can help deliver a better solution for users.
Accessibility and inclusion sit at the center of my process — technology should empower everyone and nobody should be left with a subpar experience.
I'm currently a Senior Designer at Microsoft, where I currently work on Windows AI.
Previously a Design Intern at Microsoft, where I was involved with products used by millions of people around the world. Check them out: Surface Duo, SwiftKey, Fluent Icons. Before that, I worked independently on critically acclaimed concepts both by myself and friends.
BSc Computer Science graduate — First Class Honours.
Awarded 2018-19 Microsoft MVP (Most Valuable Professional) for Windows Design.
One-handed navigation and feature parity with Edge on desktop.
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Microsoft Edge for iOS redesign isn't affiliated with Microsoft. Concepts and mockups shown do not represent any product plans past, present, or future.
2019
Cortana OS
A gestural, assistant-first alternative to what Windows Lite could be.
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Cortana OS isn't affiliated with Microsoft. Concepts and mockups shown do not represent any product plans past, present, or future.
Microsoft is reportedly working on a lightweight OS with early reports of a "Windows Lite" product surfacing. The signals so far suggest it'll ship as some flavor of Windows. This concept proposes an alternative.
I'm calling it Cortana OS. A working title, but a deliberate one: a lightweight, gestural, assistant-first OS across modern form factors. The name matters more than it first appears, so let me start there.
Why not call it Windows
Windows RT and Windows 10 S both struggled in market for the same reason. Users brought Windows expectations to them: that the apps they already owned would work, that the OS could be used as a desktop the way every prior Windows release could. But these products couldn't deliver on those expectations. The Windows brand has become a promise of legacy compatibility, and a lightweight OS can't keep that promise without becoming the thing it's trying not to be.
Naming the product something other than Windows breaks the expectation cleanly. Users approach it with a new lens, not a worse version of something they already know.
A visual language built around the assistant
Cortana is the brand at the center of this product, not chrome layered on top of it. The OS embodies it: lighter and friendlier, with a softer geometry that reads as approachable rather than authoritative.
Mail and Store on Cortana OS — rounded corners complement the radiused corners of the display.
The most visible expression is adaptive corner radius. Cortana OS devices can ship with different screen shapes — some square, some with rounded display corners — and the system geometry responds. On a square screen, interface elements take a subtle radius; on a rounded screen, the radius pronounces to match the hardware. The OS feels like an integral piece of the device rather than merely layered on top.
The same softness runs through the rest of the visual language where type, iconography, and motion all bend toward approachability.
Gestures replace the taskbar
The simpler the surface, the less chrome belongs on it. Cortana OS has no taskbar of any kind, which raises an immediate question: how does the user navigate between apps and system surfaces?
The keyboard uses the same SwiftKey intelligence as Windows 10. System surfaces are reached by edge gestures.
By gesture. Borrowing the interaction vocabulary WebOS pioneered years ago and iPhone X carried into the mainstream:
Swipe up from the bottom opens the Start overlay, available from any context.
Swipe down from the top opens a multitasking view. Apps can be arranged into a split-screen pair by dragging them to either side.
Swipe in from the right opens Action Center, carried over from Windows 10.
Edge gestures scale better than persistent chrome on small, varied form factors, and they're already in users' muscle memory from the phones they hold every day.
What isn't here
Microsoft Edge on Cortana OS — the same picture-in-picture and Cortana-assisted browsing as the desktop version.
No desktop mode. Apps can run in a split-screen arrangement, but there's no freeform windowing. Freeform windowing is the single biggest source of the complexity Cortana OS exists to escape. It implies Win32 compatibility, it implies file management, it implies the desktop metaphor the product is deliberately stepping away from.
No Live Tiles. Reporting on Windows Lite suggests Microsoft is dropping tiles in favor of static icons. I can understand why. Tiles have utility but come at a cost: the way you launch apps can look different every time you go to Start. Because of this rumor that Live Tiles might be dropped, I've done the same.
2018
Microsoft Store Content
Reimagining the Microsoft Store with a new featured apps layout and improved editorial content.
I worked with Ben Fox at User Camp to help reimagine the Microsoft Store with a new featured apps layout and improved editorial content. The aim was to take the best parts of the new Mac App Store in macOS Mojave and apply them to the Store on Windows.
To make new editorial content discoverable, the hero region on the Apps tab is repurposed as a hub for editorial stories. We replace the standing list of featured apps with something that carries more narrative weight.
The Apps tab homepage, repurposed as a hub for editorial content.
A featured collection
A collection of apps, framed as an editorial piece: a hero image on the left tells the story; the apps themselves live on the right, installable in place without leaving the page.
A featured collection of three apps.
A single app feature
The same element can be adapted for a single app. The left panel stays a full-bleed hero, with a floating card overlaying it that carries the app's metadata and an install action.
A single app feature, with a floating metadata card over a full-bleed hero.
2018
Your Phone redesign
Feature completeness and tighter integration with the Windows surfaces around it.
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Your Phone redesign isn't affiliated with Microsoft. Concepts and mockups shown do not represent any product plans past, present, or future.
Your Phone ships with the Windows 10 October 2018 update: a new way to access phone messages and photos from the PC. Messages and photos is a strong floor and this concept explores the ceiling.
This concept proposes a version of Your Phone that goes further on feature completeness and pulls the app into the Windows surfaces it's already adjacent to such as MyPeople, Windows Ink, and Bing. These are what would make Your Phone feel like a truly integrated Windows experience rather than a phone mirror.
Messages
The messaging surface that ships works well. The redesign here is mostly a Fluent refresh with Acrylic material on the message list, a tightened conversation view, the kind of subtle reorganization that catches the app up to where the rest of Windows 10 is moving.
The messages view of Your Phone. No conversation is selected.
The messages view with a conversation thread open.
The one new piece is a popover on the contact avatar: clear identity, plus the actions that follow naturally from being mid-conversation including starting a call, opening Skype, sending an email, mapping an address. The contact name/avatar is the obvious thing to interact with when the user wants to do something about the person rather than something in the thread, and the popover puts those actions one tap away.
A popover surfacing contact actions during a conversation.
MyPeople
MyPeople launched with the Fall Creators Update but has struggled to find a use case. It's a beautiful idea: your closest contacts pinned to the taskbar as a persistent surface. But app support is the limiting factor. Only a small set of apps integrate, so most contact pins reduce to launchers for one or two services rather than a genuine cross-app presence.
That's where Your Phone fits.
A MyPeople flyout with an ongoing message thread; images are being dragged in from File Explorer.
The MyPeople flyout becomes the thread with that contact, anchored to the taskbar wherever the user is. Drag-and-drop into the thread sends the attachment. And because the desktop knows what it's looking at, dragging images can trigger a OneDrive upload-and-link rather than a raw MMS send (preserving the quality the carrier protocol would otherwise compress away).
This is the use case MyPeople was waiting for. The feature isn't broken; it just needed a reason to exist beyond launching other apps.
Calls
Calling is the next obvious feature for Your Phone, but how it gets there matters. A simple port could mirror the phone's dialer onto the PC. It's useful, but maybe no better than reaching for the phone itself.
Recent calls from the user’s Android phone.
The recents view is the predictable starting point: outgoing, incoming, missed, with a one-tap callback. Worth doing, but not the interesting part.
Bing-powered search surfacing local businesses for lunch in Bellevue.
The interesting part is search. The user is already at the PC. Picking up the phone to find a restaurant means switching contexts: putting down what they were doing, unlocking the phone, typing on a smaller keyboard. With search inside Your Phone, the same query that surfaces "lunch in Bellevue" as a web result returns a list of restaurants the user can call without leaving the desk. This is what makes Your Phone more than a mirror: the cross-device experience reaches into the surface the user is already working on.
An in-progress call in a CompactOverlay window.
Active calls live in a Compact Overlay window: small, persistent, with the essentials (hold, mute, hang up) one click away. Incoming calls surface as standard Windows notifications.
Inking
Pen input has become a real surface in Windows over the last few releases. The October 2018 update introduces Snip & Sketch and a refreshed Sticky Notes; the platform is leaning into "Creators" as a positioning point. Your Phone should sit inside that pipeline rather than next to it.
The attachment panel showing recent photos from the user’s phone and PC.
The flow: pick a photo from a unified list of recent images (the phone's camera roll plus the PC's pictures folder are treated as one source), open it in a larger viewer, mark it up with the full Windows Ink toolset, then send.
The attachment markup editor with Windows Ink tools.
The inked image sent to the recipient.
The point isn't the markup itself. Loads of messaging apps across platforms have some version of that. The point is that Your Phone uses the Windows Ink toolset, with Ink Replay on the receiving end, because the PC is the surface where that toolset already lives.
2018
Podcasts app concept
A Fluent-native first-party podcasts app for Windows.
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Podcasts app concept isn't affiliated with Microsoft. Concepts and mockups shown do not represent any product plans past, present, or future.
2018
Redesigning navigation for Windows 10
Designing the navigation and management patterns that make Sets a system.
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Redesigning navigation for Windows 10 isn't affiliated with Microsoft. Concepts and mockups shown do not represent any product plans past, present, or future.
2018
Fluid Desktop
Redefining the Windows desktop experience with a new look, refined apps, and improved Cortana intelligence.
