Simon Doolin

UX Researcher, Microsoft

Simon Doolin is a design researcher at Microsoft and has been part of the SwiftKey Keyboard team for the past four-and-a-half years. His research focuses on providing insights to drive product strategy as well as providing actionable insights throughout the product development lifecycle. Previous to this, Simon completed a Ph.D. in usability engineering at the University of Edinburgh. Simon’s Ph.D. focused on developing speech-driven interfaces employing embodied conversational agents, or avatars, and investigated how these systems can be made more usable for older adults.