Product Design Leader

Building teams who
ship things that matter.

I'm a proven Product Design leader who builds and leads multidisciplinary, high-performing teams on strategic initiatives from concept to launch. At Whatnot, I lead the Buyer Design team. Previously, I led Monetization design at Roblox and the "Living Room" team at YouTube, bringing the YouTube experience to the big screen.

At Google, I led design teams for Google Fi, the Android Phone & Messages apps, Google Voice, and Google+.

I co-founded Hexagon (formerly XX+UX), SketchCamp, Overlap 2011, and the Awesome Foundation's SF Chapter.

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Speaking

Talks

1

Managing Designers (panelist)

AIGA — September 2016
2

Designing Products — Innovation (panelist)

AIGA — March 2016
3

The Beauty of Ordinary Design

Web Directions — October 2015 · Slides · Video
4

The Beauty of Ordinary Design

Industry Conference — April 2015 · Slides · Video
5

Real Talk, Real Solutions: A Panel on Solving Tech's Diversity Issues (panelist)

General Assembly — December 2014
6

Talent & Hiring (moderator)

FORM Design Conference — November 2014 · Video
7

Data-Driven Design vs. Using Design Intuition (panelist)

Accel Design Conference — April 2014 · Video
8

Behind the Design: A peek into UX at Google

iXDA — August 2013
9

Get Unstuck: Gamestorming not Brainstorming

Google I/O — May 2013 · Slides
10

Bootcamp for a UX Team of None

South by Southwest — March 2012
11

Overlap conference (co-organizer)

Overlap 2011
12

Comics for Storytelling and Sketching 101

SketchCamp SF (co-organizer) — May 2011
13

1up! Games for Change

South by Southwest — March 2011 · Slides
14

Comics for Storytelling

DrawCamp — June 2010
15

Bodystorming and No Bullshit User Research

FOO Camp East — May 2010
16

Social Search: A Little Help From My Friends

South by Southwest — March 2010 · Slides
17

Digital Ethnography for Social Interaction Design

User Research Friday — February 2010 · Slides
18

Aiming for Innovation: Living Design in a Business World

BayCHI — December 2009 · Slides
19

Designing for Sociality in Enterprise Search

Enterprise Search Summit West — November 2009 · Slides
20

Do Your Friends Make You Smarter? Exploring Social Interactions in Search

Cognitive Science Dept., UCSD — June 2009 · Slides · Video
21

Exploring the Cognitive Consequences of Social Search

CHI'09 — April 2009 · Slides
22

Towards a Model of Understanding Social Search

CSCW'08 — November 2008 · Slides
23

Distributed Cognition and the Social Web

Reboot 10 — June 2008 · Slides
24

Augmented Information Assimilation: Social and Algorithmic Web Aids for the Information Long Tail

CHI'08 — April 2008 · Slides · Video

Workshops

1

Google+Design workshop series, in partnership with Semi-Permanent

Feb 2013 – Oct 2013 · Video montage
2

Gamestorming for Primary Education

SF Friends School — February 2012
3

Enterprise Social Search Workshop

Bolt | Peters — May 2010
4

Using data to inform social design

Creativity and Cognition — October 2009 · PDF
5

The Social Web Workshop (co-organizer)

Helsinki, Finland — October 2009

Writing

Articles

6-8-5
Gamestorming blog — May 2011
Party Invitations
Gamestorming blog — August 2010
Doing More with Remote Research: Exploring Physical and Social Contexts
UX Magazine — August 2010
iPad vs. iPhone: A User Experience Study
UX Magazine — June 2010
Using Remote Research to Inform Social Interaction Design
Bolt|Peters blog — February 2010
Social Shopping: Putting the Emotion Back in E-Commerce
ReadWriteWeb — December 2009
Three Flavors of Social Search: What to Expect
ReadWriteWeb — November 2009
Why There's Nothing to Fear in Social Search
ReadWriteWeb — October 2009
Social Relevancy Rank: What's Missing?
ReadWriteWeb — July 2009

Published Papers

Social Search can't be Solved by an Algorithm
in Designing Search: UX Strategies for eCommerce Success, Wiley, 2011
When Facebook comes to Work: Understanding the Work Practice of the Digital Native
in Dancing with Digital Natives, CyberAge Books, 2011
An Elaborated Model of Social Search
B.M. Evans & E.H. Chi. Information Processing and Management, 46(6), 2010
Do Your Friends Make You Smarter?: An Analysis of Social Strategies in Online Information Seeking
B.M. Evans, S. Kairam, P. Pirolli. Information Processing and Management, 46(6), 2010
Exploring the Cognitive Consequences of Social Search
B.M. Evans et al. CHI'09, ACM Press — 2nd place, Student Research Competition
Towards a Model of Understanding Social Search
B.M. Evans & E.H. Chi. CSCW'08, ACM Press, 2008
Augmented Information Assimilation: Social and Algorithmic Web Aids for the Information Long Tail
B.M. Evans & S.K. Card. CHI'08, ACM Press, 2008
Neuropsychological and Neurophysiological Effects of Carbamazepine and Levetiracetam

K.J. Meador et al. Neurology, 69, 2007 · PDF

Building teams whoship things that matter.