# Jon Esterly

> Principal Product Designer at Microsoft

Location: Redmond, Washington, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/jonesterly

Principal Designer driving innovation in Windows experiences through holistic design and intelligent agent integration. Passionate about creating secure, user-centric solutions that simplify complexity and empower millions of users worldwide. Over two decades of success shaping high-impact experiences across platforms—mobile, desktop, web, and emerging technologies.
Currently leading design for Windows Security and unified Ai, aligning with Microsoft’s Secure Future Initiative principles: Secure by Design, Secure by Default, and Secure Operations. Skilled at bridging strategy and execution, fostering multi-disciplinary collaboration, and delivering designs that reduce cognitive load while enhancing trust.
Specialties:

Holistic Design & UX Strategy
Intelligent Agent Ecosystem Design
Security & Privacy Experience Design
Multi-Discipline Collaboration
Prototyping (Rapid & Functional)
Motion & Interaction Design
Mixed Reality & HoloLens
Mobile & Native App Design
Visual Design for Touch Interfaces

## Work Experience
### Principal  Designer @ Microsoft
Jan 2019 – Present

### Design Manager @ Microsoft
Jan 2017 – Present

### Senior Product Designer @ Microsoft
Jan 2016 – Present

### Design Director - Hololens Experience Team @ Microsoft
Jan 2015 – Jan 2016
Design director role in collaboration with a number of engineers and artist on a variety of incubator projects including Microsoft Layout. 

The HoloLens Experience Team is a small studio of creatives and developers. Our mission is to build experiences that show the world the differentiated value of mixed reality. As design director I was accountable for the research, planning and implementation of our HoloLens experiences. I lead our team through the creative process from brainstorm & prototyping to shipping and demos. 

The projects were split between internal proof of concept demos, V1 products and external "Vision Labs" projects. Vision Labs are partnerships with some very high profile and exciting external entities to bring them through our creative process and prime them in developing for HoloLens and mixed reality. They left the 2-3 week sessions with a kick starter code base, prototypes and concept videos. 

While all work was under NDA a couple projects are public that our team built. Galaxy Explorer (https://youtu.be/sMuJFKbylY4) & Halo at E3 ( https://youtu.be/QDw5QjDtFy8)

### UX Designer @ Microsoft
Jan 2008 – Jan 2015
Office Core UX - Led design of a UX framework and the following areas across the Office
suite: gestures & touch principles, shared controls, motion principles & language. This work
included designing across multiple platforms (Windows, Android, iOS, Windows Phone) and
multiple form factors, scaling from small mobile devices to large screens.
Solved complex interaction problems dealing with object selection and manipulation, cross
platform cohesion, device scalability and multiple input methods.
Delivered over 100 redlines for motion and visual design to be implemented by multiple feature
crews.

### Digital Producer @ DC3 Entertainment / Storyville Coffee
Jan 2006 – Jan 2007

### Interactive Designer @ CrashShop
Jan 2004 – Jan 2006


## Education
### BA in Visual Communication
Seattle Pacific University
Jan 2000 – Jan 2004

### Bachelor's degree in Design and Visual Communications
Seattle Pacific University
Jan 2000 – Jan 2004


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/jon-esterly-b547063

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Last updated: 2026-03-30