Erik Drouhard is a Senior UX Designer & UX Engineer currently working on the Core AI team at Microsoft. He lives in Worcester, MA with his wife Becca and cat Star.

Key Skills: UI/UX Design, UX Engineering, Design Systems, Rapid Prototyping, Context Engineering

I work at the intersection of design and code, with a focus on complex systems and rapid prototyping. I specialize in making intelligent systems understandable, predictable, and useful.

Over the past 15 years, I've designed interfaces for conversational AI, developer tools, and automotive systems. At Nuance, I worked on Dragon Drive, including an automotive HUD UI with gaze tracking featured at CES 2019, and spent four years on Mix.dialog, where I designed tools for authoring complex conversational behavior. I also led the creation of Verse, a design system for Mix and the surrounding platform.

Today, I work as a UX engineer in Microsoft Core AI, working across products including Microsoft AI Foundry and Azure portals. I use design, code, AI, and LLMs to prototype ideas, build team tooling, and help teams explore and validate product directions faster.

I prototype to think.