Designing AI Interfaces

About the Author

Louise Macfadyen is a product designer, writer, and creative technologist specializing in AI interface patterns. Over the past decade, she has worked with organizations including Google, Microsoft, Pinterest, Nike, Gap Sustainability, and the Environmental Working Group, and spoken internationally at events and institutions including Google I/O, Women Who Code, Rhizome, and the Museum of Contemporary Digital Art. She lives in New York City.

She began experimenting with code at age eleven, running Neopets fan-fiction forums with friends, and later earned a BA in literature from Queen Mary, University of London.

Today, Louise specializes in AI and emerging technology. At Microsoft, she led the creation of the company’s first Agentic AI design system, shaping interaction patterns for autonomous systems across products. At Google, she led the Material Design 3 library, now used by over one million designers and developers worldwide.

Alongside her industry work, Louise explores how technology shapes culture through visualization, archiving, and writing, and is a cohost of Away From Keyboard, a podcast about the history of the internet.