AJ Lopez

Work at the edges of enterprise, consumer, and AI. Leading design at Microsoft AI, from Seattle.

Microsoft AI · Present

Answers, not dashboards.

Workforce Insights turns the org into something you can ask. Leading design for Microsoft's AI-driven people and org analytics: the team shapes how leaders, HR, and employees get real answers through Copilot, and builds the skills that make an AI agent actually useful inside a large enterprise.

Colorful Copilot forms from AJ's Microsoft AI film

Microsoft Viva Insights · 2021 – 2024

Designing the modern workday.

Three years leading design on Microsoft Viva, the productivity and wellbeing platform inside Microsoft 365. The work ran from a redesigned Leader and Manager experience and the first Copilot Dashboard to an immersive focus mode and a Headspace integration, all under a refreshed Viva brand. Built a design team from one designer to ten.

Viva Insights wellbeing experience and Headspace activities on a desktop display

GitHub · 2020 – 2021

Bringing two design orgs together.

Design integration after Microsoft acquired GitHub: placing the Microsoft design team into roles inside GitHub's organization, then staying on with GitHub's leadership to translate the combined product portfolio into new cross-company work.

GitHub engineering metrics interface on an angled tablet, from AJ's existing film

Microsoft Azure DevOps · 2018 – 2020

Collaborative development.

Led design across Azure DevOps, from the Azure.com landing page through onboarding, pricing, billing, and the first GitHub sign-in path inside Azure. The same work covered the VSTS rebrand and the visual system that tied it all together.

Azure DevOps landing page and product services on a desktop display

Zinc · 2016 – 2018

Rebuilt for the deskless workforce.

Zinc pivoted from CoTap into a platform for the deskless workforce, spanning messaging, push-to-talk, voice, video, and broadcast, unified across iOS, Android, web, and desktop. Led product and brand design with the CPO, shaping everything from the shipped experiences to the decks that went in front of boards and analysts.

Zinc mobile conversations interface on an angled iPhone

Yelp · 2014 – 2015

When it went mobile.

Two designers, one mobile-first pivot. As Lead UI Designer, shared Yelp's flagship iOS, Android, and Apple Watch experiences with one other designer during the company's shift to mobile. The craft sat on both sides of the marketplace: consumer features people actually used, and the growth and monetization surfaces that kept merchants coming back.

Yelp mobile home and local-business discovery interface on an iPhone

About me:

Portrait of AJ Lopez

Originally from Venezuela, now in Seattle. Drawn to design that's both useful and beautiful, the kind that gets out of the way. Bilingual in English and Spanish.

Off the clock: interior design, architecture, travel, photography. Engineer by training.

Still curious about how things are built.