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🎯 I’m a Product Designer currently working on Microsoft Edge browser team focused on AI and growth initiatives. With 8 years in UX design, I specialise in visually stunning, intuitive products. With a strong foundation in Code, I can talk to Engineers and understand both sides of the Design/Dev process.
Recently my efforts have been how to leverage AI and hyper-personalisation into design. Throughout my career, I have collaborated with cross-functional teams to deliver growth orientated solutions that not only meet user needs but also drive engagement, and focus on delivering an Accessible experience for 282 million daily users.

πŸ“Œ I'm a Yorkshire lass from UK, currently based in Toronto, Canada.
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🎸 In my spare time I play guitar and bass to unwind, I am part of a few jam groups in the city. I love finding obscure gig venues to see live music.
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⚽ I am rediscovering my love for playing soccer in a rec league

References

I had the pleasure of working with Sarah Mitchell on several UX and design systems projects, and she always brought a collaborative, positive, and proactive energy to the work. Sarah not only creates elegant, scalable solutions but also uplifts everyone around her by fostering teamwork and momentum. She’s the kind of teammate who makes both the product and the people better.

Eugene So

Principal UX Design Manager @ Microsoft AI

Sarah has been an invaluable member of the design team working on a host of features across enterprise and commercial AI, core browser and design systems helping our growth, quality and retention efforts. She is a knowledgeable, detail oriented designer and always brings a thoughtful point of view to her work. Sarah shares and welcomes feedback during design crits and has formed great collaborative relationships with many cross functional partners within our broader engineering, product, marketing, research and design groups. She is an asset to any team!

Kim McCarthy

Principal UX Design Manager @ Microsoft AI

Sarah worked as a design vendor on the Microsoft Edge design team for about a year and a half. I found her to be all around an excellent designer and a hard working employee. She worked on several aspects of the product, including design systems, core features, commercial features and growth. She is reliable, collaborative, worked well with her cross-functional partners and always delivered on time. I was sad to lose her from my team and would happily welcome her back in the future.

Rob Frye

Partner design director @ Microsoft AI

My Skills

UX Design

Created end to end flows for new initiatives, and my daily work often consists of more granular design decisions for the global market. Use of Figma, Sketch, XD.

Design Systems

Created new Design systems for with a small team, defined guidelines and documented their implementation them for wider org use. One for a data visualisation software and the other a refresh for Microsoft Edge.

Prototyping

Designed intuitive user interfaces for mobile and web-based applications, creating wireframes, mockups, and prototypes to communicate design concepts to stakeholders. Occasionally used code to implement designs into coded sandboxes.

Product Design

Developed SAAS products and owned large products within companies. I have also aided Product design systems and to ensure design consistency and scalability across products and platforms.

UX Research

Collaborated with UX researchers to conduct UR Labs and studies, and used insights to inform the design of user-friendly products and features.
Sat in on research shareouts with UX researchers and provided insight.

Fun collaborator

Honestly theres nothing I love more than a design collaboration, and the whole process of critiques, jam sessions, feedback sessions. Just getting others thoughts and '2 cents' on projects is so fun and valuable to me. And of course I love to have fun with colleagues and am always prepared with an apt meme... 🀑