Projects on Amy Lily

From Syntax to Semantics: Prototyping a Natural Language Interface for Secure Infrastructure Search

Thu, 12 Jun 2025 17:15:51 +0100

Context:

MAAS search historically relied on a custom Domain Specific Language (DSL) — precise but intimidating and error-prone for both expert and new users.
The translation step (from human intent to DSL syntax) was the biggest source of mistakes, rework, and delays.
Users frequently forgot query syntax between sessions, making search a recurring learning curve.

Challenge:

How might we remove the manual translation step while keeping search fast, precise, and scalable?

Ubuntu Pro CLI: Redesigning `pro status` for Clarity, Scale, and Actionability

Fri, 12 Apr 2024 17:15:51 +0100

Context: Ubuntu Pro provides security, compliance, and extended maintenance services for enterprise and developer environments. The pro status CLI is the primary entry point for human operators to check subscription status, security coverage, vulnerabilities, and service health.

As the service portfolio grew across LTS, EOSS, non-LTS, and cloud-attached systems, outputs became inconsistent, hard to parse, and difficult to act on — especially for operators managing dozens or hundreds of machines.

Scaling Infra UX: Designing a Centralized Control Platform for 60K MAAS Sites

Sat, 12 Mar 2022 17:15:51 +0100

Context: MAAS is Canonical’s bare metal provisioning tool used by enterprise and telco clients to manage thousands of machines.
As deployments scaled to 60,000+ edge sites across multi-region infrastructures, operators struggled with:

Fragmented management across thousands of MAAS instances
Manual, redundant image handling
Delayed observability and no single source of truth
Inconsistent UX between sites

I led the design of MAAS Site Manager — a centralized control platform to unify monitoring, troubleshooting, and configuration at scale.

Redesigning MAAS: Scalable Infrastructure UI That Inspired a Design System Shift

Fri, 01 Oct 2021 14:53:41 +0000

Context:
MAAS 2.8’s UI struggled to scale. Navigation was unintuitive, actions were buried far from context, and real-time status was hard to see. We set out to modernize MAAS and align the layout across Canonical’s Cloud & Infra products.

Challenge:
How might we create a functional, scalable application layout that:

Improves learnability, efficiency, and error tolerance
Scales to large environments (100–1800+ machines)
Serves as a foundation for the division’s design system

My Role:
UX Lead partnering with Engineering & PM.