Margaret Gould Stewart manages the user experience team for YouTube, leading the company’s overall design and user research efforts. Prior to her current role, she spent two years leading Search and Consumer Products UX at Google. Stewart has been a practitioner and manager in the field of user experience for over 15 years. After graduating from New York University’s Interactive Telecommunications Program in 1995, she consulted extensively with New York media companies such as the New York Times, Time-Warner and Scholastic to develop many of their first forays into the Web. She’s held leadership roles at a variety of high profile start-ups and companies, including Tripod.com and Angelfire.com, which were both acquired by Lycos Inc. Over the course of her career, Stewart has led the design teams for five of the 10 most visited websites in the world.
Track:
Attitudes & Behaviors
Keynote Title:
Co-creating with Humanity: The Design of Open Systems
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