Irene Au
User Experience, Design at Google
- Location
- San Francisco Bay Area
- Industry
- Internet
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Irene Au's Overview
- Current
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- Head of User Experience at Google
- Past
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- VP User Experience at Yahoo! Inc.
- Director, User Experience at Yahoo! Inc.
- Manager, User Interface Design and User Research at Yahoo! Inc.
- Interaction Designer at Netscape Communications Corp.
- Education
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- University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- University of South Carolina-Columbia
- Recommendations
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3 people have recommended Irene
- Connections
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500+ connections
Irene Au's Summary
Google (2006 - present)
Yahoo (1998 - 2006)
Netscape (1996 - 1998)
Specialties
User experience, human-computer interaction, engineering psychology, user interface design, information architecture, usability engineering, user experience research, building design teams, design for large-scale consumer websites, services, and applications
Irene Au's Experience
VP User Experience
Yahoo! Inc.
Public Company; 10,001+ employees; yhoo; Internet industry
2002 – 2006 (4 years)
Responsible for Yahoo's user experience worldwide. Managed team of 150 that included visual design, interaction design, user experience research, and front-end web development.
Director, User Experience
Yahoo! Inc.
Public Company; 10,001+ employees; yhoo; Internet industry
2000 – 2002 (2 years)
Established User Experience and Design team as effective and integrated members of cross-functional product development teams that drive interaction, interface, and visual design for yahoo.com products and services.
Manager, User Interface Design and User Research
Yahoo! Inc.
Public Company; 10,001+ employees; yhoo; Internet industry
1998 – 2000 (2 years)
Built Yahoo’s User Interface Design and User Research teams and led key design and research projects.
Interaction Designer
Netscape Communications Corp.
Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; NSCP; Computer Software industry
1996 – 1998 (2 years)
Designed Netscape Communicator 4.x products, including the browser, mail/news client, and web site editor.
Irene Au's Education
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
MS, Industrial Engineering/Human-Computer Interaction
1994 – 1996
University of South Carolina-Columbia
BS, Electrical and Computer Engineering
1990 – 1994
Summa Cum Laude
Activities and Societies: Chair, Institute for Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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