Tay Aras

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My work explores connection: how we can bring people closer to each other, and to the things they care about. I’ve spent five years doing it as a designer and product manager, at Microsoft and at my studio, nowhere interesting.

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UI Library

Ready-made video calling and chat composites and components

Gallery view of a call built with the UI Library
Mobile pre-call screen
Screen sharing in a call
Call on mobile web
UI Library components with a custom theme
How the UI Library builds on Fluent UI
Year
2022 – 2026

Led more than 40 features across web, iOS, and Android. More than 200 businesses use them, and monthly minutes grew from 2 million to 11.1 million in 2025.

Collective IQ

Microsoft’s AI product for finding what your company already knows

Collective IQ in Microsoft Teams
Year
Since 2026

Lead UX from how people contribute knowledge to the app in Teams where they manage it. Live for a couple thousand Microsoft employees and piloting with several Fortune 500 companies.

Knowhere

An index of New York’s music schools, shops, venues, and organizations

Knowhere list view on a phone
A single listing on a phone
Knowhere list view on desktop
Earlier design explorations
Year
2026

Designed and built it with filters that start from what you want to do. Live with testers, with 1,156 listings.

Carnegie Mellon School of Design

Physical XR

Carnegie Mellon thesis on making AR part of physical objects

A prototype module with an AR scene inside
Adjusting a physical control on a module
The prototyping kit
AR scene placed outdoors
Year
2022

Built six tools that test how a material, a shape, or a physical input like a dial changes what you see in AR.