Microsoft
Partner Design Director
I lead global design teams shaping the future of Microsoft Teams and Planner across mobile and desktop. My work brings together communication, collaboration, project management, and AI, with the goal of making these experiences feel simpler, more coherent, and more naturally connected. I also help shape Microsoft’s next-generation design language across Microsoft 365 and Copilot.
It’s the latest chapter in a journey that began in London, where I joined Microsoft to design experiences for Skype. That work brought me to the USA and, just before its public launch, to Microsoft Teams. I went on to design the mobile experience and lead the team behind it, helping Teams become an everyday tool for more than 300 million people and one of Microsoft’s most highly rated mobile products.
Over time, my focus expanded from individual experiences to the broader systems and ideas connecting them. I’ve led design across Teams, Skype, and GroupMe, helped bring Copilot into Teams, and shaped products for everyone from frontline workers and small businesses to large enterprises and consumers. The scale of the work has changed, but what keeps me interested hasn’t. I still love making complicated things feel straightforward and building products that fit naturally into people’s lives.
