👋 I’m Samuel Shen
A product designer with 8 years at Microsoft and recent experience shaping fintech products. I’m passionate about creating intuitive, meaningful experiences, simplifying complex problems, and embracing AI as part of the design process.
Landlord Portal
theGuarantors · 2026
Leading product design across the full landlord portal — driving design strategy and decisions to hit company OKRs, reworking core workflows, navigation, and laying the foundational design system for long-term scalability
Narrative Builder
Microsoft · 2024 - 2025
PowerPoint's flagship genAI feature turning a simple prompt into a full presentation. I designed the 0 → 1 experience and launched the MVP as part of the Copilot Wave 2 announcement
+400%WAU 6 months after the MVP launch
Universal Search for MacOS
Microsoft · 2023
Designed and launched the unified search experience across Word, Excel, and PowerPoint for Mac — driving up to 2850% increase in command search engagement and 21% growth in document search usage
+2850%Command search engagement
+21%In-doc search usage
Redefining search UX on Office iOS
Microsoft · 2023
Redesigned and unified the search experience across Word, Excel, and PowerPoint on iOS — consolidating fragmented entry points into one discoverable system, and reimagining In-document search, Define, and Smart Lookup with modern interactions and a lightweight mobile-first approach
👋 I’m Samuel Shen
A product designer with 8 years at Microsoft and recent experience shaping fintech products. I’m passionate about creating intuitive, meaningful experiences, simplifying complex problems, and embracing AI as part of the design process.
Landlord Portal
theGuarantors · 2026
Leading product design across the full landlord portal — driving design strategy and decisions to hit company OKRs, reworking core workflows, navigation, and laying the foundational design system for long-term scalability
Narrative Builder
Microsoft · 2024 - 2025
PowerPoint's flagship genAI feature turning a simple prompt into a full presentation. I designed the 0 → 1 experience and launched the MVP as part of the Copilot Wave 2 announcement
+400%WAU 6 months after the MVP launch
Universal Search for MacOS
Microsoft · 2023
Designed and launched the unified search experience across Word, Excel, and PowerPoint for Mac — driving up to 2850% increase in command search engagement and 21% growth in document search usage
+2850%Command search engagement
+21%In-doc search usage
Redefining search UX on Office iOS
Microsoft · 2023
Redesigned and unified the search experience across Word, Excel, and PowerPoint on iOS — consolidating fragmented entry points into one discoverable system, and reimagining In-document search, Define, and Smart Lookup with modern interactions and a lightweight mobile-first approach
👋 I’m Samuel Shen
A product designer with 8 years at Microsoft and recent experience shaping fintech products. I’m passionate about creating intuitive, meaningful experiences, simplifying complex problems, and embracing AI as part of the design process.
Landlord Portal
theGuarantors · 2026
Leading product design across the full landlord portal — driving design strategy and decisions to hit company OKRs, reworking core workflows, navigation, and laying the foundational design system for long-term scalability
Narrative Builder
Microsoft · 2024 - 2025
PowerPoint's flagship genAI feature turning a simple prompt into a full presentation. I designed the 0 → 1 experience and launched the MVP as part of the Copilot Wave 2 announcement
+400%WAU 6 months after the MVP launch
Universal Search for MacOS
Microsoft · 2023
Designed and launched the unified search experience across Word, Excel, and PowerPoint for Mac — driving up to 2850% increase in command search engagement and 21% growth in document search usage
+2850%Command search engagement
+21%In-doc search usage
Redefining search UX on Office iOS
Microsoft · 2023
Redesigned and unified the search experience across Word, Excel, and PowerPoint on iOS — consolidating fragmented entry points into one discoverable system, and re-imagining In-document search, Define, and Smart Lookup with modern interactions and a lightweight mobile-first approach