Moni Wolf is a Principal Design Manager, Odsp, Project Cortex at Microsoft. She possess expertise in user experience, experience design, user interface design, user experience design, product design and 30 more skills. She is proficient in Italian (fading away). Colleagues describe her as "In 2008 Moni approached me in my role and function as President of BMW Group Designworks for a ‘Joint Sponsered Project BMW/Motorola to be conducted as a 14 week program at Art Center College of Design (Pasadena). Project goal had been to leverage the unique and significant expertise of Art Center, Motorola and BMW Designworks teams to create innovative design solutions that address seamless information in the car. Based on her initiative we were quickly able to draw the brief for the program for this particular occasion of a cross industry collaboration fully based on conjoint learning for both companies and the educational institution. Moni’s design sensibility has helped to enrich our process and to ensure a successful outcome for the project. Her design vision is grounded in a deep and intuitive understanding for integrating hardware and software in service of great user experiences. Asking the right questions, defining a relevant bandwidth of contextual parameters and insight gathering drives her foundational problem solving approach: inclusive research, conceptual iteration and design development to create winning products. I have very much enjoyed her productive tenacity and focused approach to achieve the next step of design leadership. Overall it had developed in a mutual beneficial collaboration, given the unique opportunity of shared learning from the diverse brand and product expertises BMW and Motorola had to offer at that time. " and "Moni was my manager for a few years at Microsoft, both in the Kin/Windows Phone group and in the Xbox group at Microsoft. Her unique balance of strategic thinking and unrestrained passion for design made everyday high energy, challenging, and fun. Moni inspires people to turn a design problem on it's head to look at the most provocative solutions. She pushes everyone around her to embrace challenges fearlessly, and encourages people to develop their design stories in the wildest ways possible. Moni embraces disruptive solutions, and loves to challenge people to grow their thinking and perspectives. Moni is a people person and a people connector. She invests a lot in working relationships, picks up on and nurtures different talents, loves to cross pollinate conversations, and always knows how to get the best results from everyone. Any time I was stuck or needed a perspective or help, she always had a running list of fantastic people to talk to. She listens to people, understands their needs, and is a nurturing manager. Moni is also goal oriented. She knows how to balance wild design thinking with a broken down logical pathway to completion. She has a special blend of both structured and unstructured in approach, which leads to great product design. Her everyday passion is infectious, and above all I really valued working on her team. "