Dynamic Action Button
My hackweek concept that became Outlook's Copilot command center.
Sean Smith · Product Design Leader & Builder
About
Sean Smith
Product Designer, Leader, and Builder
Hey, I'm Sean, a product designer with 16+ years of experience.
I'm looking to build with a great team of humans and agents. Ages ago, I was the founding designer at MileIQ (acq. Microsoft), then 10 years at Microsoft where I led a team of 11 for Outlook Mobile and Mac. I make things with my hands and with agents, including apps I've shipped solo like Brukas and Ghostties, with more to come.
I live north of San Francisco with my wife, our two daughters, four and one, and our dog.
Let's make something together!
Brukas
An AI focus coach that helps you pick the one thing to do right now.
Choose your theme
What if software helped people do more and gave them time back for things that matter to them more?
Ghostties
A macOS terminal with a sidebar for running agents in parallel.
Home base
Two daughters, 1 and 4, my wife, and Carmela our shepherd mix. Petaluma: playgrounds, drawing, oysters in Tomales Bay. Quiet, with the city and wine country close.
How I build digitally
What I build with my hands
You keep learning and trying things till you really have to hire someone. I remodeled the whole house that way: kitchen, floors, two bathrooms, a Murphy bed I designed in Shapr3D and built by hand.
Copilot Drafts
One Copilot drafting experience across mobile, tablet, Mac, and web.
Orrery + Iris
An open-source React component that grows a draggable button into a modal sheet.
Outlook Mac & Mobile
Principal Design Manager & Principal Design Lead
Led design for Outlook Mobile and Mac through 2x+ MAU growth at hundreds-of-millions scale, spanning AI-powered experiences and core reading workflows across iOS, Android, macOS, and web. More coming soon.
Money in Excel
Senior Designer
Led design for Money in Excel, a personal finance product that pulled banking data via Plaid into smart Excel templates. Met users in the spreadsheet workflow they were already using to budget. More coming soon.
MileIQ
Senior Designer to Senior Design Manager
Founding designer at MileIQ, acquired by Microsoft. Led design across SMB and consumer apps including MileIQ, Spend, and Visits. More coming soon.
Spend & Visits
Founding Designer
First in-house designer at Mobile Data Labs (MileIQ), working to invent the product vision for the IQ suite (Miles, Visits, Spend, plus a "super-IQ" shell) that turned mundane SMB tasks into ML-driven, suggested-action experiences. More coming soon.
Best Apps Market & Fetch
Lead Designer & Design Engineer
Designed an Android app store alternative; modernized the UI with Material Design. More coming soon.
Freelance Design
Freelance Designer
Led branding and UI work for startups. Launched and ran an apparel business covering design, printing, and eCommerce. More coming soon.