Messaging on AI Glasses

Impact

As the lead product designer for the Communications workstream during the early development of Meta’s display glasses, I defined the interaction model for Meta Ray-Ban Display Glasses messaging with Neural Band.

Working closely with Product, AI, Engineering, Interaction Design, and UX Research, I redesigned the Message Composer and Message Thread, established the Day 0 communication framework, and co-authored the Messaging PRD. Through rapid prototyping and cross-functional collaboration, I helped define how communication should work on a display glasses before transitioning to a new team during a company reorganization. The interaction principles established during this work continued to inform the evolution of messaging on the platform.

The challenge wasn’t fitting messaging onto a smaller display - it was determining which communication modality best fits each moment.

Should AI suggest a response? Should the user dictate? Type? Write by hand? React with an emoji?

Rather than treating every input method equally, I designed an interaction framework that prioritized the right communication method based on user context, effort, and confidence.

• Defining a new Message Composer that prioritized AI-assisted replies while supporting dictation, handwriting, keyboard, emoji, and quick reactions.
• Redesigning the Message Thread to make long conversations, inline reactions, notifications, attachments, and scrolling feel natural on a glanceable display.
• Establishing interaction patterns for cross-device communication, including seamless transitions between glasses and phone when opening links or continuing conversations.
• Unifying messaging experiences across Messenger, Instagram Direct, WhatsApp, and native messaging into a cohesive communication system.
• Developing a dictation-first, keyboard-as-supplement input strategy that better matched the constraints of wearable computing.

Throughout the project, prototypes became decision-making tools that helped Product, Engineering, and Design evaluate interaction models, prioritize features, and establish new communication patterns before implementation.