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I designed on the Product team at Dust between 2024 and 2026. I worked on core features of the product such as Agent Builder, Skill Builder, and Admin Governance.

Agent builder

The existing builder scattered configuration across tabs and modals. It was difficult to understand what an agent could do, what data it could access, and who could use it.

I worked on bringing these decisions into one place.

Knowledge

Knowledge selection relied on a tree that became difficult to browse. I designed a searchable table with clearer selection states and item counts, including data from multiple spaces.

Tools

Tools were difficult to discover, and their descriptions did not always explain what they enabled. I worked on clearer selection and configuration flows.

Skills

As agents multiplied, people were recreating the same behavior in different places. Skills provide a way to package reusable capabilities and maintain them separately from individual agents.

Skill builder

I designed the creation flow around that problem: turn a repeatable behavior into a skill that can be reused across agents.

Manage skills

A growing skills library created a new problem: finding what exists, who owns it, and where it is used.

I explored search, filtering, usage, and batch management for skills and agents.

Admin governance

The existing permission model relied on broad roles, but companies needed more precise control. Different people needed to use agents, create them, review them, and publish them across the workspace.

Those responsibilities were not clearly separated. A user could build an agent with access to sensitive data or powerful tools, while admins had no simple way to review it before it became available to everyone. Admins also could not see personal or unpublished agents, which made it difficult to debug issues, understand what was being built, or maintain a consistent quality bar.

I worked on a more granular permission model that separates creating, publishing, and validating agents and skills.

UI revamp

Dust had accumulated visual inconsistencies over time. Spacing, icons, typography, and component styles varied across the product, making the interface feel less polished than the product itself.

The problem was not that users needed new workflows. Dust needed a more consistent visual foundation.

I worked with the team on a visual refresh of Sparkle, our design system, and the most visible product surfaces, including the sidebar, conversation view, headers, settings, buttons, inputs, and composer.