Why desire paths
I’ve always been drawn to desire paths, where people find their own way through a space. It feels close to how I think about product design: understand how people naturally move, then shape the path without taking away their sense of agency.
Santa Cruz and Iceland are two places I find especially beautiful, similar in their openness but strikingly different in character.
Huy Ngois a designer and prototyper working on AI and voice, where nobody’s quite settled on how software should behave yet.
He likes experimenting with new technology, then figuring out how to turn it into something intuitive, useful, and occasionally delightful.
Currently shaping SAP’s Fiori design system and multimodal experiences for Joule Work.
He also works with early-stage startups and established companies on product design and strategy, including Together AI, Distyl AI, and others.
Selected work
09 Projects / 2017–2026
Design foundations for AI infrastructure
01Visit together.aiDesign foundations for AI infrastructure
Founding designer, consulting
($200M → $8.3B valuation in that time)
Worked closely with the SVPs of product and engineering from the start, designing everything from onboarding to the model playgrounds and building the design system behind it.
Multimodal experiences for Joule Work
02Visit sap.comMultimodal experiences for Joule Work
Design lead, multimodal
Voice agents and conversations for SAP's Joule Work that carry from desk to car, with product motion and audio design giving them one consistent character.
Design systems for Fiori
03Visit sap.comDesign systems for Fiori
Product designer
Designing components, patterns, and theming for SAP's cross-platform design system and its conversational UX, and writing the guidelines and rollout material that help teams adopt them.
Voice design and prototyping for early assistants
04Visit yahoo.github.ioVoice design and prototyping for early assistants
Design intern
Created an early voice prototyping method and shared it in a company talk, co-led design and bug bashes for an early Yahoo email assistant, and extended Makeskill, an Alexa prototyping kit, for multi-turn conversations.
Decisions and trust layer for AI agents
05Visit conxt.studioDecisions and trust layer for AI agents
Co-founder
An add-on to the agent tools you already use, like Claude or Codex. It keeps the decisions you and your agents make, reviewed and shared, so every session starts from what's settled and conflicts go to whoever owns the call. I set the product direction, design it, and build a lot of it with AI agents.
Podcast discovery for Spotify
06Case study coming soonPodcast discovery for Spotify
Unsolicited concept
A two-week unsolicited redesign to make podcasts on Spotify easier to find, filter, and keep up with. A search filter much like my proposal later shipped.
Workflow controls for enterprise AI
07Visit distyl.aiWorkflow controls for enterprise AI
Product design contractor
Brought in to get design off the ground at Distyl, working with its AI experts on the core flows for its enterprise AI workflows.
Contact preferences for student loans
08Visit credible.comContact preferences for student loans
Operations intern
Letting borrowers choose how and when Credible reaches them, to make support feel personal and reduce drop-off in the loan prequalification flow.
Mood forecasting for EmotiCal
09Open in Google DriveMood forecasting for EmotiCal
Research assistant
A mood-forecasting web app for a UCSC HCI Lab study on algorithmic authority. I designed the app and built its front end and data visualizations, working under the PhD researcher who led the study.
