Designing for systems that act on their own.

Principal Product Designer · AI UX EngineerAgentic & AI UX · Microsoft

Seattle, WAMHCI+D, Univ. of Washington

10+ years50+ features shipped

A decade designing human-centered, trust-first AI across conversational, voice, and touch interfaces — for non-deterministic systems that don't behave the same way twice. And I build the tooling, not only the mockups.

Selected work — four case studies

Selected work

Human control

Placed so agents can run more freely, not less

Reversibility

What can be undone decides what can be autonomous

Trust & red-teaming

Evaluating systems that don't repeat

Multimodal / VUI

Chat · voice · touch, one intent model

Agent-as-user

Designing for a visitor that isn't human

Microsoft · 2026—present

Autonomous Security

Human control around autonomous security work — legibility, reversibility, mid-flight steering — for SOC analyst, admin and threat-hunter jobs.

public preview · Aug 2026
Microsoft · 2021—24

Docufy

AI contract lifecycle on SharePoint Premium. Framework adopted org-wide.

3–6 months → under 14 days · Ignite 2023
My own venture · 2026

Frictionary

See your site the way an AI agent does — runs a real agent through real tasks and reports where it fails, and why. Designed and built solo, now in pilot.

$0.0115/run · 8.4s · MVP in pilot
Remitly · 2019—21

Passbook

Tri-modal banking for immigrants navigating language and literacy barriers.

TIME 100 · 67% activation
Built

MCP workflows

Figma ↔ VS Code ↔ Copilot on one live component state.

~25% faster handoff
Built

Synthetic personas

AI-simulated testing of agent override behaviour.

~30% fewer live cycles
Built

Figma → Adaptive Card

AdaptiveLens — OpenAI + Gemini, emitting schema-valid JSON.

Built

Intent coverage model

Mapped what users asked against what the assistant could answer, then instrumented the gap in Mixpanel.

+12% CSAT
Built

Deterministic detection

Friction found by code, not a model — so no finding can be hallucinated. A model only explains what code already proved.

evidence you can check
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Live modelPowered by GPT-4o Grounded in Sayena's case studies, not a canned bot. Billed per question — so make them good ones.