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Maggie Stanphill, Director of UX at Google talks about her efforts in Digital Wellbeing.
How this became a focus in the tech industry, and what is Google doing to contribute?
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Garrett Tolbert, Andrea Davila, and Alex Lim talk to us about life as a Google UX intern.
In this episode, we talk with a trio of UX interns with three very different paths to Google: What led them to their internships? How their experience has changed them. What’s next in their UX journeys?
 
Handy links for this episode:
Learn about internships at Google
 
Meet our guests:
Garrett Tolbert – UX Engineering intern at Google
Andrea Davila – UX Writing intern at Google
Alex Lim – UX Research intern at Google

What does the term “creative collaboration” mean to you? What do you need to consider when the things you create are seen in the seams of people’s day? How do the images we see everyday impact our living experience?
Join us as we explore these Questions with Emily Blank, Art Director on Google’s Material Design team.
 
Handy links for this episode:
The Canvas Project by Google Cloud
 
Meet our guest:
Emily Blank works to create impactful imagery on Google’s Material Design team. She’s previously worked at Apple, Bloomberg, and Billboard.

Photo in episode art is by Jess Bonham

From prototyping futures to designing artifacts solely for discussion, tune in to explore the idiosyncratic—but important—field of speculative design. In this episode, host Travis Neilson sits down with Philip Battin and Curtis Flanagan from Seed Studio, a Google design team working on future-forward creative concepts for human-centered technology. In this intriguing conversation, the trio unpack what it means to rehearse the future to inform the present.

Handy links for this episode:
Explore “A Space for Being” from Salone del Mobile in Milan 2019
Read Speculative Everything: Design, Fiction, and Social Dreaming by Anthony Dunne and Fiona Raby
Watch HER on Google Play

Meet our guests:
Philip Battin currently leads strategic design and innovation for Seed Studio. Previously he worked as a design strategist on Google Glass at Google X.

Curtis Flanagan is an art director at Seed Studio. Before joining Google, he was a senior designer at Red Antler and Ideas On Purpose.

What makes a portfolio stand out? Why is the design exercise necessary? What exactly is a “noogler” and how do you become one? In this episode, host Travis Neilson talks with Google Design Manager Mike Buzzard about the seven phases of the Google UX hiring process. Along the way, hear audio clips of designers describing their own stories of applying to work at Google. From overcoming the fear of submitting an application, to demystifying the full-day of on-site interviews, listen in for a comprehensive breakdown of all the hiring quirks you need to know.
Handy links for this episode:
Submit an application
Stay up to date with the latest from Google Design
Meet our guest:
Mike Buzzard is a design manager at Google, currently collaboratively shaping the UX Community and Culture initiative. In his personal capacity, Buzzard also acts as a design advisor to A Capital, Fuel Capital, and Stitch Labs.  

In this episode, host Travis Neilson interviews Roxanne Pinto, a content strategist at Google, about the role of UX writing in helping people use—and understand—machine learning-driven products. Listen in as Pinto shares insightful anecdotes about unpacking errors and how mental models shape product interactions and user trust.
Handy links for this episode:
Get an overview of Google IO
Explore Google Flights
Explore Google Ads

Meet our guest:
Roxanne Pinto is a content strategist at Google, currently writing UX content for Google Flights and the Google Trips app. Previously she worked as a copywriter at SolutionSet and Hitachi Data Systems.