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Microsoft Outlook

Product DesignDesign Manager

At Microsoft, I worked on design systems and product design for Outlook across platforms. I helped build and ship the Fluent design system, redesigned key surfaces, and contributed to the open-source icon system.

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Dark Mode

Designed Fluent Dark Mode — the unified dark theme system adopted across every Microsoft 365 mobile app, from Outlook and Teams to OneDrive, SharePoint, Word and Excel. Defined the surface elevation model, gray palette, and color contrast rules that became the foundation for dark mode across iOS, Android and Mac.

Outlook dark mode on mobile

Fluent Dark Mode — designed for Outlook, adopted across Microsoft 365.

Outlook dark and light mode transition

Light and dark theme parity — surface elevation and shadow behavior across both modes.

Outlook dark mode across multiple devices

Dark mode shipped across iOS, Android and Mac — unified experience for Microsoft 365.

Dark mode design and Fluent icon integration — iOS navigation and Android bottom sheet prototypes.

Outlook dark mode phone with blue tones

Outlook mobile dark mode — cohesive gray palette with refined brand color saturation.

Fluent Icons

Created Fluent System Icons — Microsoft's open-source icon library with over 500 icons built for every platform. Designed a mobile-first system with regular and filled themes, systematic sizing across 4 densities, and literal metaphor-based naming. The library shipped across Office, Outlook, Teams, Xbox and Windows and is open-source on GitHub.

Fluent System Icons design process

Fluent System Icons — 500+ icons designed for every Microsoft platform.

Fluent icon design iterations

Icon design exploration — refining metaphors across multiple iterations.

Fluent System Icons

The full Fluent System Icons library — regular and filled themes across 4 size densities.

Surface Duo

Designed the Outlook experience for Surface Duo — Microsoft's dual-screen Android device. Systematically optimized email, calendar, and multitasking layouts to leverage both screens with adaptive interaction patterns and responsive composition.

Surface Duo — Outlook dual-screen experience.