Disney Friends DS

Disney Friends DS

Conversational UI, Game Design, Leadership, Management, Multimodal Interfaces, Research, Touch & Tablet UI, UX and Product Design, Video Games, Voice Interfaces
As Lead Producer on Disney Friends, I owned the vision and delivery of an ambitious new game that blended four unique cinematic universes with a single, cohesive gameplay mechanic. We became one of the first Nintendo DS titles to incorporate speech recognition, but had to do so in a way that performed well, integrated seamlessly with gameplay goals, and could ship simultaneously in 7 languages. I led a cross-disciplinary team of artists, developers and game designers with a total development budget of 1.85 million dollars US to ship on-time in 2008 to extremely solid reviews for a game targeted at…
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Design leadership: Power platform admin center

Design leadership: Power platform admin center

Cloud Services, Enterprise Experiences, Leadership, Management, UX and Product Design
On November 1, 2017, I took on a new role at Microsoft as the Design Lead for a new and ambitious cross-product initiative, which 10 months later was released as the Power platform admin center. Read more about the site in Microsoft's words at the official press release. Problem Statement Unify four different admin centers - Dynamics 365 instance administration, Dynamics 365 app administration, admin.powerapps.com, and admin.flow.com - into a single experience on a new UI framework. 10 months later, the site moved out of private preview and into public release. The Team MY ROLE: Principal Designer and Design Lead…
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Cortana in the Car: VUI for Windows Automotive

Cortana in the Car: VUI for Windows Automotive

Cloud Services, Consumer Products, Conversational UI, Management, Multimodal Interfaces, Touch & Tablet UI, UX and Product Design, Voice Interfaces
Design a new voice user interface (VUI) for use in the car that passes all automotive industry distracted driving safety standards. In addition, guide all 5 major feature teams on the appropriate use of speech within their areas (Start, Navigation, Media, Communications, and Car) CONTRIBUTORS: Myself (design owner) / 2 Program Managers / 2 Researchers Process Our early process focused on developing a push-to-talk experience that provided guidance to users without overwhelming. Careful attention was paid to multimodality, error handling, and the interaction between the VUI and GUI. I drove hands-on deep dives (in partnership with the lead Speech program…
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