Hi, I'm Kiana, a New Jersey based Product Designer using design and strategy to help build products that push what’s capable. I'm currently at Microsoft designing image editing workflows in Copilot.
Selected Projects
Selected Projects
Microsoft Designer
Creating intent-based image editing workflows for enterprise users
Partnering closely with PM and Engineering, I led a fast-paced three-month redesign of core information architecture patterns across the flagship Editor, Microsoft Photos, and Copilot integrations. Despite the complexities of shifting product strategy, ambiguous goals, and team changes, we delivered a simplified contextual editing toolbar, stronger responsive design foundations, clearer monetization messaging, and a shared design library to improve discoverability, wayfinding, and overall product cohesion.
Timeline
Jan - May 2024
Team
1 PM, 2 Eng, 1 Content Designer
Results & Impact
Designed over 30 components in a central design library to improve UI cohesion.
Reduced time to task from an average of 3 clicks to 1 for our most popular editing tools.
Microsoft Designer
Creating intent-based image editing workflows for enterprise users
Partnering closely with PM and Engineering, I led a fast-paced three-month redesign of core information architecture patterns across the flagship Editor, Microsoft Photos, and Copilot integrations. Despite the complexities of shifting product strategy, ambiguous goals, and team changes, we delivered a simplified contextual editing toolbar, stronger responsive design foundations, clearer monetization messaging, and a shared design library to improve discoverability, wayfinding, and overall product cohesion.
Microsoft Designer
Creating intent-based image editing workflows for enterprise users
Partnering closely with PM and Engineering, I led a fast-paced three-month redesign of core information architecture patterns across the flagship Editor, Microsoft Photos, and Copilot integrations. Despite the complexities of shifting product strategy, ambiguous goals, and team changes, we delivered a simplified contextual editing toolbar, stronger responsive design foundations, clearer monetization messaging, and a shared design library to improve discoverability, wayfinding, and overall product cohesion.
Timeline
Jan - May 2024
Team
1 PM, 2 Eng, 1 Content Designer
Results & Impact
Designed over 30 components in a central design library to improve UI cohesion.
Reduced time to task from an average of 3 clicks to 1 for our most popular editing tools.
Microsoft
Redefining design templates in the age of AI
Using a mixture of prompt engineering and art direction, I created over 150 prompt templates with style and intent combinations ranging from our most popular template categories to improve our design template quality and increase user retention. These prompt templates were then transformed into over 7,500 design template library by our ML team using generative AI models.
Timeline
Nov - May 2024
Team
1 PM, 1 Data Scientist, 1 Content Designer
Results & Impact
Created over 150 style and intent pairings which led to a library of over 100,000 prompt templates.
30% increase in user retention.
Established the initial creative direction, paving the way for a dedicated Content team to continuously refine and expand on the work.
Featured in a Microsoft Design article.
Microsoft
Redefining design templates in the age of AI
Using a mixture of prompt engineering and art direction, I created over 150 prompt templates with style and intent combinations ranging from our most popular template categories to improve our design template quality and increase user retention. These prompt templates were then transformed into over 7,500 design template library by our ML team using generative AI models.
Microsoft
Redefining design templates in the age of AI
Using a mixture of prompt engineering and art direction, I created over 150 prompt templates with style and intent combinations ranging from our most popular template categories to improve our design template quality and increase user retention. These prompt templates were then transformed into over 7,500 design template library by our ML team using generative AI models.
Timeline
Nov - May 2024
Team
1 PM, 1 Data Scientist, 1 Content Designer
Results & Impact
Created over 150 style and intent pairings which led to a library of over 100,000 prompt templates.
30% increase in user retention.
Established the initial creative direction, paving the way for a dedicated Content team to continuously refine and expand on the work.
Featured in a Microsoft Design article.
Microsoft Designer
Monetizing creative AI experiences
As Designer scaled from a free to freemium AI experience, we needed a better way to inform users of their AI credits status and our more premium Copilot subscription offerings. As the lead Product Designer, I redesigned the subscription upsell and premium CTA experiences across web and iOS to drive Copilot Pro and Microsoft 365 subscriptions while minimizing disruption to the visual creation workflow.
Timeline
August - Nov 2024
Team
2 PMs, 3 Eng, 1 Content Designer, 2 Designers
Results & Impact
Shipped globally to over 12 million users.
Improved awareness of premium features.
Established UX foundation for ongoing monetization and subscription growth.
Microsoft Designer
Monetizing creative AI experiences
As Designer scaled from a free to freemium AI experience, we needed a better way to inform users of their AI credits status and our more premium Copilot subscription offerings. As the lead Product Designer, I redesigned the subscription upsell and premium CTA experiences across web and iOS to drive Copilot Pro and Microsoft 365 subscriptions while minimizing disruption to the visual creation workflow.
Microsoft Designer
Monetizing creative AI experiences
As Designer scaled from a free to freemium AI experience, we needed a better way to inform users of their AI credits status and our more premium Copilot subscription offerings. As the lead Product Designer, I redesigned the subscription upsell and premium CTA experiences across web and iOS to drive Copilot Pro and Microsoft 365 subscriptions while minimizing disruption to the visual creation workflow.
Timeline
August - Nov 2024
Team
2 PMs, 3 Eng, 1 Content Designer, 2 Designers
Results & Impact
Shipped globally to over 12 million users.
Improved awareness of premium features.
Established UX foundation for ongoing monetization and subscription growth.
Microsoft Global Hackathon
A hackathon to simplify the immigration process for migrant workers crossing the Brownsville, TX border
In September 2024, I participated in the Microsoft Global Hackathon project, DACA EDA Copilot, which is aimed at helping ABAProBar streamline work permit applications for migrants at the Brownsville, Texas border. As one of three Product Designers, I redesigned the homepage and file upload detail pages to improve the overall information architecture and clean up the UI.
Timeline
Sep 2024 (1 week)
Team
2 Designers, 1 PM, 2 Eng, 1 Pro Bono Lawyer
Results & Impact
We were chosen as a favorite by three judges in the “AI using Azure OpenAI” topic challenge, out of over 1,700 projects.
We also received an honorable mention for the Hack for Good with a Nonprofit Executive Challenge.
Microsoft Global Hackathon
A hackathon to simplify the immigration process for migrant workers crossing the Brownsville, TX border
In September 2024, I participated in the Microsoft Global Hackathon project, DACA EDA Copilot, which is aimed at helping ABAProBar streamline work permit applications for migrants at the Brownsville, Texas border. As one of three Product Designers, I redesigned the homepage and file upload detail pages to improve the overall information architecture and clean up the UI.
Microsoft Global Hackathon
A hackathon to simplify the immigration process for migrant workers crossing the Brownsville, TX border
In September 2024, I participated in the Microsoft Global Hackathon project, DACA EDA Copilot, which is aimed at helping ABAProBar streamline work permit applications for migrants at the Brownsville, Texas border. As one of three Product Designers, I redesigned the homepage and file upload detail pages to improve the overall information architecture and clean up the UI.
Timeline
Sep 2024 (1 week)
Team
2 Designers, 1 PM, 2 Eng, 1 Pro Bono Lawyer
Results & Impact
We were chosen as a favorite by three judges in the “AI using Azure OpenAI” topic challenge, out of over 1,700 projects.
We also received an honorable mention for the Hack for Good with a Nonprofit Executive Challenge.
Spotify
Exploring the future of music discovery
During the summer of 2021, I interned at Spotify on the Freemium Value team, where I designed conceptual solutions to improve fan connection, personalization and music discovery, including exploring an icon to represent their newest Lyrics feature.
Timeline
July - Oct 2021
Team
4 Designers, 1 Eng
Spotify
Exploring the future of music discovery
During the summer of 2021, I interned at Spotify on the Freemium Value team, where I designed conceptual solutions to improve fan connection, personalization and music discovery, including exploring an icon to represent their newest Lyrics feature.
Spotify
Exploring the future of music discovery
During the summer of 2021, I interned at Spotify on the Freemium Value team, where I designed conceptual solutions to improve fan connection, personalization and music discovery, including exploring an icon to represent their newest Lyrics feature.
Timeline
July - Oct 2021
Team
4 Designers, 1 Eng