About
Senior Director for Chrome at Google. Thinking about ✌️ product design, 🤘 public education, 👊 usable security, and ✊ climate justice.
Projects
This refresh came with fun constraints. Does it feel familiar, fresh, Google-y? Does it scale up and down well? Work in monochrome? In print and in product? On hardware, taskbars/docks, and home screens? The new brand icons (with their OS-specific customizations!) are rolled out with Chrome's 100th version. You'll noticed that we simplified the forms by removing shadows, refining proportions and brightening colors.
Passwords are so difficult to manually create, remember, and keep safe. That's why I'm proud of the progress we've made at Google to bring a great password manager to Android devices and Google Chrome across OSes. You can now use passwords generated and saved in Chrome on your laptop to sign in to apps and sites on your phone. And the Google Password Manager will help ensure your passwords aren’t compromised in a breach.
If you're looking for more ways to stay organized in Chrome you may benefit from Tab Groups. We hope that by making the groups collapsible it'll be easier for folks to reclaim some space and focus better on specific tasks. There are a bunch of interesting (non-obvious!) interaction design wrinkles here especially with respect to focus states and animations so we'll continue to fine tune things over time. In addition to making tabs more flexible, we've also made some performance improvements under the hood.
After learning simple nouns and verbs, children need to start reasoning about abstract concepts like shape, number, and color. This Stanford thesis project investigates opportunities for technology to help children master their color words. Language acquisition research suggests that to be remembered, words must be repeated in meaningful contexts over an extended period of time. So this augmented reality application uses a phone’s camera to recognize and then announce color words.
Work Experience
Leading a globally distributed team of designers, researchers, content strategists, and program managers responsible for Chromium and Google Chrome. In this role, I'm overseeing a team of 90 across 10+ offices, keeping more than 3 billion people (and their passwords) safe online, and evolving the product experience so that folks continue to seek out and stick with Chrome. In addition to the core browser UI, we also design tools for web developers and enterprise IT administrators.
Evolved Chrome to offer people powerful simplicity (e.g. Tab Groups), expressive control (e.g. Artist Themes), and safety-focused helpfulness (e.g. Password Manager). Welcomed new expertise to our team: illustration, visual design, writing, content strategy, and program management.
Co-founded Chrome's usable security team and focused my design work on protecting people from phishing and social engineering attacks on the Web (SafeBrowsing), protecting people from malware on Android (Play Protect), and moving the Web ecosystem toward connection security (HTTPS).
Designed and prototyped core interactions for the initial launch of Chrome on iOS and Android.
• Google App for iOS - interaction design and prototyping
• Query refinements and suggestions - quant UX research
• Gmail and Google Maps for Mobile - qual UX research
• CS 2850 - TA for Dr. David Easley, Dr. Jon Kleinberg
• ARCH 6308 - TA for Dr. Yanni Loukissas
• Human Computer Interaction - Dr. Geri Gay
• Culturally Embedded Computing - Dr. Phoebe Sengers
• Rawlings Cornell Presidential Research Scholar
Education
Policy analysis, learning theory, and design
Machine learning, natural language processing, and computer vision
Graduated magna cum laude with minors in French and Information Science