Designing experiences to improve peoples lives
Building teams
Passionate about building and growing UX teams that tackle complex business and user problems. Excited to get the most out of my teams by innovating on process, advocating for user centered design and growing strategic and business impact skills.
Creating experiences
What if you could create a tool that someone would use daily? How can you increase productivity? Efficiency? Pleasure? What happens when you use an application the third time? The eighth time? The 126th time? I create experiences that are versatile and efficient but also designed to continually engage and delight humans.
Day Jobs
I work for companies that are dreaming of the future. Companies that shape the future. We live in a time where buzz words like 'disruption', 'moonshot', and 'artificial intelligence' have saturated our workplaces. It's hard to find the right atmosphere to truly innovate, right now, for me that place is at Google working to redefine the future of hybrid productivity with Meet
Professor and lecturer at NYU Tisch MFAs and Stern business PHDs
Speaking at UXU 2019 MTV California
Case studies
These launches come from the amazing teams I have built, led and been a part of
Case study 1
Transforming Google Meet from feature chasing to AI focused differentiators
During the pandemic Meet had evolved significantly as the team brought critical features to launch. After my team brought the world back to the office with hybrid work I pivoted the broader team to focus on longer term vision, product differentiators and increasing product excellence.
Expressive reactions in Google Meet
Custom GenAI backgrounds
People Grid redesign
Personalize your look with Stackable Effects
Case study 2
Bringing the workforce back to the office with Google Meet
During the pandemic video conferencing had evolved dramatically but no one knew how to bring that back into the office. Me and my team delivered the promise of hybrid work to Meets 242 million users and established hybrid as the future of work.
What I did
Led the team to launch 7 key features for Meet to land a successful return to office for our customers and pave the way for hybrid work
Built a healthy team - recruited, instituted norms and processes
Brought all of our devices back online and achieved an incredible 89% CSAT
Launched 2 new collaboration devices. The Board 65 and Series One 27
Led the strategy and launch of the redesign / reenvisioning of our base grid to be more people focused and delightful
Led the pivot to AI features and key launches (Generative Backgrounds, AI layouts, and more)
Dynamic Tiles
Google Meet
FaceMatch - in room identity
The Future of Hybrid Work
Google Meet
Touch controller redesign
Better hybrid collaboration
Case study 3
Redefining the future of education
The classroom had been changing for years as more and more workflows became digital. To truly embrace new teaching methodologies teachers needed more robust and integrated planning, grading and assignment distribution tools. My team rebuilt Google Classroom to meet those users needs.
Google Classroom redesign
The future of education
Google Classroom
Case study 4
Using technology to improve public safety at Jigsaw
During the 2018 election we saw an influx of misinformation online which divided local and international communities. With the subsequent BLM movement and COVID-19 pandemic my team developed technology to improve information hygiene online, community discourse and aid in reducing police violence using technology.
Detecting harmful misinformation
VR de-escalation training for police
Ending repressive censorship
Reducing toxic langauge online
Tools to empower fact checkers
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Other Notable Launches
NUI with Cortana
Gesture UI with Kinect
Flawless voice transcription with Google Assistant
A contextually helpful Windows phone
AR Experiments
AR Translation with Bing
The future of productivity with Office
Automating busywork
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