FW: "The How and Why of Google UI" Wed 18-JUN-2003

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From: Horacek, Tamara (tlh@dolby.com)
Date: Mon Jun 16 2003 - 11:31:16 PDT 

Subject: FW: "The How and Why of Google UI" Wed 18-JUN-2003
Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2003 11:31:16 -0700
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From: "Horacek, Tamara" <tlh@dolby.com>

 fyi:
 -----Original Message-----
From: Libby Trudell [mailto:ltrudell@netbox.com]
Sent: Sunday, June 15, 2003 8:53 PM
To: San Andreas Chapter
Subject: Fw: "The How and Why of Google UI" Wed 18-JUN-2003

This ACM announcement is forwarded at the suggestion of San Andreas
Chapter Professional Development Committee Chair, Mary-Lynn Bragg.
 
Kind regards,
 
Libby Trudell
President, San Andreas Chapter of SLA

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From: Fran Sinhart <sinhart@HQ.ACM.ORG>
Reply-To: Fran Sinhart <sinhart@HQ.ACM.ORG>
Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2003 10:14:12 -0400
To: SANFRAN@ACM.ORG
Subject: ACM Talk: "The How and Why of Google UI" Wed 18-JUN-2003

 Come and Join Us! San Francisco Bay Area ACM (www.sfbayacm.org
<http://www.sfbayacm.org/ ) presents:
 Marissa Mayer, Director of Consumer Web Products, Google

  "The How and Why of Google UI"

Date: Wednesday, Jun 18, 2003
Time: 6:30pm Refreshments; 7:00pm Speaker
Location: Hewlett Packard (see directions below)
          Pruneridge and Wolfe,
          Cupertino, Bldg. 48, Oak Room.

Free and open to all who wish to attend, but membership is only
$10/year.

ABSTRACT

Google has centered the design of its interface around user
needs and demands. This talk will focus on our internal approach to
user-centered design as well as the results that we have achieved.
Google's product development process is fairly unstructured and
flexible. All employees take part in the product definition and great
ideas flow. We work to foster flexibility and creativity. I'll
analyze the strengths and weaknesses of our approach and provide
examples of how this process has contributed to Google's products and,
specifically, our user interface.

BIOGRAPHY

Marissa Mayer, Director of Consumer Web Products, Google Marissa Mayer
has
been with Google since June 1999 and is currently Director of Consumer
Web
Products and Product Manager for Google.com. Formerly the technical lead
for
the user-interface team, she has spearheaded almost every user-interface
change to Google's website in the past four years. While at Google, she
has
worked on search classification, the Google web directory, image search,
Google News. She has also internationalized Google's interface, and has
lead much of the UI design and development effort including establishing
user testing. Several patents have been filed on her work.

Concurrently with her full-time work at Google, Marissa has taught
introductory computer programming classes at Stanford to over 3,000
students
and has received both the Centennial teaching award and the Forsythe
award
for outstanding contribution to undergraduate education. Prior to
joining
Google, Marissa worked at the UBS research lab (Ubilab) in Zurich,
Switzerland and SRI International in Menlo Park, California.

Marissa holds a B.S. with honors in Symbolic Systems from Stanford as
well
as an M.S. in Computer Science also from Stanford.

DIRECTIONS
>From Highway 280 take the Wolfe Road exit toward El Camino Real in
Cupertino. Turn right onto Pruneridge; HP will be on the left. Enter
at the main gate and turn left following signs to Building 48 & Oak
Room. At the stop sign, turn right to the circle and Building 48 and
use any parking available. At the main door you will be directed to
the exact location of the meeting in the Oak Room.

See www.sfbayacm.org <http://www.sfbayacm.org/> for further
information. 

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