Hello, I’m Varun Varshney—a Principal Designer at Microsoft AI, where I lead shopping for Microsoft Copilot. I’m also an independent builder crafting soulful products for the AI era.
I’ve designed consumer products used by millions across AI, search, voice, video, shopping, and payments. On all my teams I have been known for innovation, sharp product instinct, craft and shipping fast. I operate as a Super IC — though in the past I’ve led teams of more than 15 designers and shaped large-scale initiatives.
PixoraAn image generation platform with curated visual styles.
OddflickA century of cinema, one swipe away. TikTok for classic cinema.
BeatBloomHum a tune, add a few words, and AI turns it into a finished track.Design lead for Copilot Shopping, where I shipped the core shopping experience and Copilot Checkout, Microsoft’s flagship agentic-commerce experience, now live across 500K+ merchants. I also led the studio’s shift to AI-native product development, introducing new prototyping practices and VibeKit to embed AI throughout how teams explore, build, and ship.
Ran design for Shopping & Wallet at $6B+ in annual customer savings and 6M DAU. Built the team from five hires and led a full Wallet redesign other groups adopted.
Headed Shopping, a core Edge pillar, as savings compounded past $3B and engaged users grew to 4.6M DAU. Scaled price comparison 10× and moved Edge’s retention metric against Chrome.
Design-led Esports Hub from 0 to 1.5M DAU — vision, IA, brand and motion, shipped as designed. Its clip-capture differentiator became the subject of two patents.
Led the creative vision for Hummingbird, Microsoft’s personalized feed app — 4.7 rated and featured by Apple. Shipped the Rio and PyeongChang Olympics search experiences.
Invented the Word Flow Keyboard, a gesture keyboard with search inside the typing surface. Took it from hackathon concept to a shipped iOS app covered by The Verge and TechCrunch.
Sole designer across 10 Bing search domains — weather, finance, sports and more — from college hire to the org’s go-to designer. Won OneWeek globally with Project CityZen.
