INTERACTION DESIGNER, SEPT 2013 - APR 2017

Much of what I did on Chrome was quiet work, thinking through tricky things like permissions settings (left.) The hope is users don't need to access it, but when they do, the UI is clear and painless.

Refinery29 profiled me and others on my team, which was awesome. But the moment I felt I had been impactful on Chrome was years later. A developer at different company excitedly wanted to show me how I could add a search engine to my Chrome mobile app, not knowing that I designed the feature. It's so motivating to connect with real users.

Chrome Custom Tabs

I was the lead designer on a stealth Chrome project you might use a lot, but not even notice. (That's a good thing.) If you opened a web link in an mobile app in the past, you'd get launched into Chrome. Your original app would often close because of low memory. Chrome Custom Tabs opens Chrome within the app, keeps your place, and loads fast. 

A large part of my work was ensuring the aesthetic feel was as similar to the loading app as possible, which motivated external apps to sign on. The project was featured at Google I/O that year.