INTERACTION DESIGNER, SEPT 2013 - APR 2017

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

Years after I left Google, a developer at different company excitedly wanted to show me how I could add a search engine to my Chrome mobile app. She had no idea I designed the feature. I felt so impactful in that moment.

Custom Tabs

If mobile memory is low, opening a web link from another app might close that app as Chrome loaded the link. Custom Tabs opened Chrome within the current app, kept your place, and loaded quickly. I was the lead designer on this project with two developers and one product manager for a relatively fast, nine-month launch timeline. My job was to ensure the aesthetic feel was as similar to the loading app as possible. This motivated external apps to sign on and not default to a less-secure WebView. As a win-win for apps and their users, the project was featured at Google I/O.