UI at Google: Guiding Principles and Practices

Speaker
Marissa Mayer
Director of Consumer Web Products and Product Manager, Google.com

When
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Where
Newell-Simon Hall 1305 (Michael Mauldin Auditorium)

Description

Speaker's Bio

Marissa Mayer has been with Google since June, 1999. Currently the Director of Consumer Web Products, she has managed the user experience on Google’s website for the past 6 years. While at Google, she has been a software engineer and product manager (and occasionally designer and usability analyst) working on projects including the main web search, image search, Google News, Froogle, Groups, Desktop Search, and Orkut. Several patents have been filed on her work.

Concurrently with her full-time work at Google, Marissa has taught introductory computer programming classes at Stanford to over 3,000 students and has received both the Centennial teaching award and the Forsythe award for outstanding contribution to undergraduate education.

Prior to joining Google, Marissa worked at the UBS research lab (Ubilab) in Zurich, Switzerland and SRI International in Menlo Park, California.

Marissa holds a B.S. with honors in Symbolic Systems from Stanford as well as an M.S. in Computer Science also from Stanford.

Host
Brad Myers