Hae Jin Lee is a multi-disciplinary designer and design researcher who likes to work at the intersection of various creative disciplines including psychology, sociology, art, computer science, and anthropology.

2020 — NowMetaAR Product Designer (L7)

2020 — Now

Seattle

Shaping the next version of AR glasses (Nov 2024~Present)

Orion AR Glasses (Apr 2022 – Oct 2024)

Defined and evolved the Orion input model, establishing a durable system foundation through a “Source of Truth” illustrated guide and Interaction Blocks framework. As the program entered a critical build phase, stepped into a Design Lead role to safeguard end-to-end system quality, ensuring consistency across hardware, OS, and application layers under delivery pressure.

Meta Account Unification & Horizon Profile (Oct 2020 - Mar 2022)

Led the company-wide unification of Meta’s identity architecture, successfully influencing executive leadership to replace the legacy “Friends” graph with a scalable “Follower” model. Orchestrated a cross-platform migration strategy that required a deliberate engineering de-scope to meet launch timelines, resulting in a 67% account-linking rate at launch and a future-proofed identity foundation.

2019 — 2020MicrosoftSenior interaction designer - Surface Duo

2019 — 2020

Redmond, Seattle WA

Envisioned and prototyped multiple software–hardware interaction patterns for Surface Duo 2 using ProtoPie.

2015 — 2019MicrosoftSenior interaction designer - Microsoft HoloLens

2015 — 2019

Redmond, Seattle WA

Architected HoloLens 2 Out-of-Box Experience (OOBE) to successfully onboard users to this novel input model as well as creating Tips app for continued education

Partnered with Enterprise Leaders: Collaborated directly with strategic partners (Airbus, Siemens, CAE, Trimble) to migrate industrial workflows to Mixed Reality. Synthesized complex partner needs into reusable OS-level interaction patterns (Hand Menus, Cut Planes, etc.) that graduated as MRTK components.

Strategized Mixed Reality OS-level Sharing Systems: Led a 2-year initiative to define OS-level synchronous collaboration. Developed prototypes for collocated and remote sharing that solved complex multi-user ambiguity issues (identity attribution, shared coordinate systems), establishing the foundational logic for how users interact with shared holograms across space and time

2014 — 2015MicrosoftInteraction Designer II - Windows Maps

2014 — 2015

Redmond, Seattle WA

Creating Windows 10 Maps app core patterns, interaction model, and common components

as well as exploring new and extending existing features.

Shipped new transit experience for Bing Maps 3D Preview App

2012 — 2014MicrosoftUX Designer II - IPE Design

2012 — 2014

Bellevue

Shipped Bing Maps 3D Preview app. Responsible areas include streetside, detail card and authentication.

Shipped Photosynth 3D technical preview website

Created visual guideline and redline for Bing Website Beta release