Design Manager, Assistant Developer Experience · 2018 — 2021
Google Assistant
I led a team of designers and researchers building the tools developers, voice-UI designers, and partners use to create apps for the Google Assistant — from the Actions Console to the Actions SDK.
As founding designer of the Conversational Actions Platform, I took it from a paper concept to a top-level Assistant OKR. The Actions Console launched and was presented at Google I/O 2018.
Actions Developer Console
The front door for developers extending the Assistant — a welcome that explains the ecosystem, a guided flow to pick an Action type and name the project, and a dashboard that lays out the path from idea to a live, tested Action.
Conversation builder — Interaction model
A visual way to author conversations without writing the orchestration by hand. Designers wire scenes and invocations, train intents with natural-language phrases, collect parameters through slot filling, and shape each turn's prompt and transitions.
Conversation builder — Simulator
Test an Action across surfaces before shipping. Talk or type to it on a phone or smart speaker, follow the turn-by-turn event trace, and inspect the raw request, response, and SSML audio behind every reply.