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Work IQ Dashboard

Work IQ Dashboard explores how workplace intelligence can become a useful part of the working day, rather than another stream of information to monitor.

The dashboard brings schedule, inbox triage and Copilot suggestions into a shared widget experience, with a status strip that helps people see what needs their attention. I led navigation, onboarding and visual design, shaped the widgets and Copilot interactions, and contributed implementation directly through Copilot-assisted workflows and pull requests.

Company: Microsoft
Role: Design lead & hands-on design-engineering contributor
When: 2026 · Aug — Oct 2026
Disciplines: Product Design, Design Engineering, Copilot interactions

The problem

A dashboard can bring workplace signals together and still leave people to work out what matters. The design challenge was to connect those signals with a clear starting point and useful next steps.

What I owned

Navigation, onboarding and overall visual design
Widget treatment and typography
Copilot interactions
Direct implementation contributions

How I built it

Agentic workflow: Copilot-assisted implementation on my own design branch, with multiple originating PRs. Some contributions landed through replacement PRs with my attribution retained.

From signals to next steps

The status strip puts “what needs me now?” ahead of the individual widgets. Schedule, inbox triage and Copilot suggestions then share one layout, placing suggested actions alongside the context they relate to.

One system across themes and screens

Widgets and Copilot Chat use a shared token set. The light, dark and appearance-settings views show how that system carries through the interface; the mobile view shows the status strip and cards reflowing into a single column.

Evidence in the implementation

The result is a working sample application, with my design contributions carried into code through Copilot-assisted workflows and pull requests. The evidence here is the interface and implementation, rather than measured adoption or productivity outcomes.

Work IQ Dashboard overview in light mode: status strip, morning brief, schedule, inbox triage and Copilot suggestions. — Overview. A status strip answers “what needs me now?”, then widgets for schedule, inbox triage and daily evaluation, with Copilot suggestions inline.

The same Work IQ Dashboard overview in dark mode. — The same layout in dark mode. Every widget is themed from one token set.

Work IQ Dashboard settings, Appearance: color mode and Fluent theme palettes. — Appearance settings: colour mode and Fluent Theme Designer palettes, applied across widgets and Copilot Chat.

Work IQ Dashboard on mobile: the status strip reflows into a single column. — Mobile. The status strip reflows into a single column of cards.