User Experience Designer at Google
Greater Seattle Area
User Experience Designer at Google
Greater Seattle Area
Aimin' to make software a kajillion times better than it is.
Software interface design and development, interaction design, information architecture, graphic design, usability, contextual inquiry, user centered design, product and program management, strategic product design and vision.
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; goog; Computer Software industry)
May 2005 — Present (3 years 3 months)
Ongoing:
User experience design for real-time communications products and other social software at Google.
Past:
- Design lead on Gmail
- Design lead on Gmail Chat
- Design lead on numerous key Gmail features, including conversation cards, antivirus, autosave, user photos, and the delete button
- Lead a cross-functional user experience team of interaction designers, visual designers, and user researchers
- Drove product success across multiple office locations and time zones
- Assisted user research with hundreds of user studies
- Interviewed large numbers of candidates, screened resumes, participated in campus recruiting activities
- Give talks to groups of industry professionals about user experience practice and process at Google (ACM SIGCHI, Stanford HCI guest lecture, etc)
(Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; amzn; Retail industry)
April 2004 — April 2005 (1 year 1 month)
My primary role involved user interface development design on the seller side of Amazon's global ecommerce platform.
(Public Company; Computer Software industry)
October 2003 — April 2004 (7 months)
(Privately Held; Computer Software industry)
December 2002 — October 2003 (11 months)
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)
July 2001 — January 2002 (7 months)
(Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Computer Software industry)
June 2000 — April 2001 (11 months)
BS, Computer Science, August 1995 — June 2000
TU2k, pcOrder, Trilogy, Amazon.com
2007 Google Founder's Award winner
2007 Google Executive Management Group Award winner
both for contributions to Gmail