Cindy Alvarez believes that design and development teams need to ask more questions, state more assumptions, and run more experiments. In her current role as Director of UX for PowerPoint, she recently led the design efforts for PowerPoint’s newly announced AI-powered Copilot.
She is the author of “Lean Customer Development: Build Products Your Customers Will Buy” and has taught the lessons from that book to dozens of teams within Microsoft, innovation labs within large enterprise organizations worldwide, and startups at varying stages of maturity.
Once her laptop is closed, she enjoys distance running, cooking, and thinking about behavioral economics.