Dept of Defense | Chief Digital and AI Office (CDAO)
Building Trustworthy AI
Role & Responsibility
Design Lead
Product Strategist
Problem Solved
Launched one of the first military-wide responsible AI evaluation platform for the Department of Defense, enabling consistent assessment and compliance of AI regulations.
Platform overview showing updates, leaderboard, and aggregated project scores.
Situation
Military leaders overseeing AI adoption lacked a clear, consistent way to evaluate the risk and track progress of their AI portfolios.
Constraints
3 months timeline
New agency and leadership
Policies under development
Task
Design an enterprise platform for senior leaders across the military to track and understand the performance of their AI projects in accordance with the DoD's Responsible AI guidance
Goals
Equip non-technical decision-makers with a high-level overview of project health
Provide context for leaders to have informed, meaningful discussions with operators.
Role & Responsibilities
Low and high fidelity wireframes of home page
As the design lead on a cross-functional team of 12, I directly managed UX research and UI design while partnering closely with project manager, data scientists, a tech vendor, and stakeholders.
01 Discovery & Research
Planned qualitative research
Conducted interviews with 18 military executives
02 Design Leadership
Led design through iterative versions (low, mid, and high fidelity)
Developed a visual design system
Structured content architecture
Consulted with data scientist and created data visualization standards
Mentored junior designer
03 Product Management
Drove product development cycle
Strategized milestones and releases
Facilitated product alignment between clients, business stakeholders, and tech partner
Research Insights & Design Application
Research Insight
Need to adopt responsible AI usage and grow AI literacy
Design Application
Combine policy, workforce training, and evaluation tool.
Prioritize user friendly interface
Logical information architecture flow
Project summary cards showing project name, last updated, type, and overall project score. Includes link to project detail page.
Research Insight
Design Application
Performance history chart
Show timestamp of last update
Waterfall chart and record log showing performance history and time of last project updates
Research Insight
Design Application
Quick glance pass/fail results supported by detailed explanation
Contact information for accountability
Table view of test results with side panel of details.