Erik Drouhard is an AI Design Engineer specializing in human-agent interaction. He lives in Worcester, MA with his wife Becca and cat Star.
Key skills:
AI product design Human-agent interaction UX engineering Design systems Context engineering
Selected work
04 entriesBuilding a shared design system for Mix and Nuance web tools
As the Verse design-system DRI, bringing Figma, tokens, accessible components, and product implementation into alignment across design and engineering.
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Prototyping the systems behind AI product design
Using design, code, and AI-native workflows to help teams explore, test, and evaluate complex product ideas more quickly.
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Making complex conversational behavior easier to author
Leading interaction design for Mix.dialog's behavior-authoring, condition-building, and QA workflows, then converting shared patterns into reusable platform components.
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Designing a gaze-driven automotive HUD
Leading UI and interaction design, then translating prototypes and motion into behavior for an embedded display and its production handoff.
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I make intelligent systems understandable, predictable, and useful.