Video: Marissa Mayer
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Filmed on: October 9, 2009
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With billions of searches per day, Google.com brings
real meaning to designing at scale. Just as important are the human
touches—such as Google Doodles—which serve Google’s fundamental design
mission, to delight its users. As its products reach people from 150
countries speaking more than 100 languages, Google’s design team has had
to develop a unique philosophy for user-centered design. Marissa Mayer,
who guides the user experience on Google.com and several other
properties, explores how both empiricism and personality are essential
to good design.
Speaker bio
Marissa Mayer is the vice
president of search products and user experience at Google and leads the
company’s product management efforts on search products—web search,
images, news, books, products, maps, Google Earth, the Google Toolbar,
Google Desktop, Google Health, Google Labs and more. She joined Google, a
small start-up, in 1999 as the company’s first female engineer. Her
efforts have included designing and developing Google’s search
interface, internationalizing the site to more than 100 languages,
defining Google News, Gmail and Orkut and launching more than 100
features and products on Google.com. Several patents have been filed on
her work in artificial intelligence and interface design. Mayer has
taught introductory computer programming classes at Stanford University
to more than 3,000 students. Stanford has recognized her with the
Centennial Teaching Award and the Forsythe Award for her outstanding
contribution to undergraduate education. Mayer has been featured in
various publications, including The New York Times, BusinessWeek, Fortune, Fast Company and Newsweek’s “10 Tech Leaders of the Future” and Red Herring’s “15 Women to Watch.”