Hello!
I’m Yoav

A senior design lead with 15+ years of experience across cybersecurity and healthcare.

I combine UX research, systems thinking, visual design, and AI-assisted prototyping to turn complex problems into shipped products.

Product Design
UX research
0–1 system design
Systems thinking
Agentic workflows

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Case studies

01/ From feature-centric to workflow-centric: rebuilding how security teams take action

Redesigning Defender for Cloud’s action model so security teams act through one consistent flow instead of two.

Detailed design
Persona analysis
Systems thinking

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Microsoft Defender security recommendations dashboard

02/ Defender for Cloud automation center

Improving organizations efficiency and security governance by supporting the creation of safe automations while keeping humans in the loop

Concept vision
0–1 system design
Systems thinking
Visual design

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Defender for Cloud automation center dashboard

03/ Other selected works

Selected works from other complex systems in various domains including cyber-security, healthcare, 3D modeling

Microsoft Defender exposure management dashboard