Ian Barlow Email & Phone Number

Kirkland, Washington, United States

Led UX for every user-facing aspect of the Android Auto projection product, including numerous system framework updates, streamlined onboarding, integrations with other Google teams (Assistant, Maps, Youtube Music, Messages), improved connectivity, collaborations with car and phone OEMs, scaling our 3P app ecosystem, continuously driving up product UX quality, and more.Represented UX in cross functional planning sessions to define product / UX strategy, roadmaps, priorities, budgets… Show more Led UX for every user-facing aspect of the Android Auto projection product, including numerous system framework updates, streamlined onboarding, integrations with other Google teams (Assistant, Maps, Youtube Music, Messages), improved connectivity, collaborations with car and phone OEMs, scaling our 3P app ecosystem, continuously driving up product UX quality, and more.Represented UX in cross functional planning sessions to define product / UX strategy, roadmaps, priorities, budgets, and resource allocations.Hired and managed a UX team of 6-12 reports; responsibilities included day to day operations, career development, performance management.Drove up product UX quality by establishing and evangelizing clear UX criteria for launch readiness, and creating a UX-owned fit-and-finish backlog and securing ongoing engineering investment to drive down issues. Scaled product from 500k to tens of millions of monthly active users; availability of Android Auto is now a critical factor in a consumer’s decision process when buying a car. Show less

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Led design for TV experience for Google Fiber customers, launched major redesign to TV experience, including search, guide, on demand, TV playback, and more.

Toronto, Canada Area

Led design of Firefox for Android phones and tablets. Responsibilities included working with globally distributed cross functional team to define high level product direction, creating interaction design flows and prototypes, refining pixel-level visual design details, and managing a small team of designers.

Led visual design for several products for Kobo, a Canadian eBook startup, including a suite of Kobo-branded eReaders, and apps for iPad, iPhone, Android, and desktop.

Created award-winning designs for web, print communications and branding, and was responsible for creative from brief to client sign-off.