Irene Au

Current

• Director, User Experience at Google

Past

• Sr. Director Product Practices (working part-time) at Yahoo! Inc.
• 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.

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Education

• University of South Carolina-Columbia
• University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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Industry

Internet

Irene Au’s Summary

Google (2006 - present)
Yahoo (1998 - 2006)
Netscape (1996 - 1998)

Irene Au’s 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

• Sr. Director Product Practices (working part-time)

  Yahoo! Inc.

  (Public Company; YHOO; Internet industry)

  2005 — 2006 (1 year)

  Provide support and tools to business units to enable delivery of Yahoo's product strategy. Develop product operations and product strategy programs to operationalize corporate strategy.

• VP User Experience

  Yahoo! Inc.

  (Public Company; Internet industry)

  2002 — 2005 (3 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; 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; 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; NSCP; Internet 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 South Carolina-Columbia

  BS, Electrical and Computer Engineering, 1990 — 1994

  Magna Cum Laude

  Activities and Societies:

  Chair, Institute for Electrical and Electronics Engineers

• University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

  MS, Industrial Engineering/Human-Computer Interaction

Additional Information

Irene Au’s Groups:

DMI
Creative Good - Customer Experience Council, Adaptive Path - MX, FWE&E

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