# Irina Smolyanskaya

> Principal Product Designer, Microsoft

Location: Seattle, Washington, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/irinasmolyanskaya

As a product designer, I've worked on creating engaging user experiences for conversational AI, digital ink, mobile applications, websites, games, consoles and connected experiences. Currently, I am working at Microsoft on Copilot extensibility.

## Work Experience
### Principal Product Designer @ Microsoft
Jan 2022 – Jan 2024 | Redmond, Washington, United States
Designing a unifying Microsoft platform for creating experiences that can run across Microsoft 365 apps (e.g. Office.com, Teams, etc.). The platform connects and simplifies Microsoft and OEM apps, bringing new value and efficiency to developers and end users.

### Senior Product Designer @ Microsoft
Jan 2019 – Jan 2022 | Redmond, Washington, United States
Worked as the main designer on incubating intelligent digital ink project "Aragon". This ink app was developed for Microsoft tablets and had AI system that allowed semantic understanding of hand-written content on the fly, manipulating it and editing it with a pen. This allowed users to edit notes in a natural way with digital ink pens and without switching to text editor mode.

### Senior Product Designer at Microsoft Office @ Microsoft
Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | Redmond, Washington, United States
Incubated and designed AI based conversational experiences for Microsoft Office. This work later led to Copilots in Microsoft Office. Worked on ideation, early design, presentation to the leadership and synchronizing conversational AI based UI across Work, PowerPoint, Excel, etc.

### Senior UX Designer at Microsoft AI and Research @ Microsoft
Jan 2015 – Jan 2018 | Redmond, Washington, United States
Designed conversational AI services (chatbots) and AI powered social applications. Selected projects: language understanding service (LUIS) for use in conversational apps, bot framework for creating chatbots, QnA maker service for training chatbots without coding, calendar.help service powered by humans and AI for automating meeting scheduling.

### Designer @ Smashing Ideas
Jan 2011 – Jan 2015 | Seattle, WA
Designed mobile applications, websites, games, consoles and connected experiences. Selected projects: Face tracking-based game for Mattel, Stephen Hawking's Snapshots of the Universe app, LeapFrog's Leap TV game console, game apps for Mattel, Pokemon website. More about these projects at www.Designformedia.com

### Designer @ Freelance contract work
Jan 2007 – Jan 2011 | Seattle, Washington, United States
Worked as a designer on websites and advertisement related projects for various companies including Amazon, Smashing Ideas, MRG, ElderFriends. Most notable projects: Pokemon World Championship website, PBS Kids website (SuperWhy).

### Web Designer @ Plexipixel
Jan 2005 – Jan 2006 | Seattle, Washington, United States
Website development for Microsoft (Microsoft Learning and Microsoft Certified Professional)


## Education
### Associate's Degree in Interactive Media Design
Art Institute of Seattle
Jan 2004 – Jan 2006

### French Linguistics and Literature
Université Sorbonne Nouvelle
Jan 2001 – Jan 2002

### Master's Degree in Linguistics and Literature
Chelyabinsk State University
Jan 1996 – Jan 2000


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/irina-smolyanskaya-00171811

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Last updated: 2026-03-30