The Evolution Of An Interface
Excellent speech by Marissa Mayer, Google’s VP Search Products & User Experience, on scaling Google, user behaviour research and testing, and the engineering of the interface. Especially important is the section from minutes 8:00-12:00, where Marissa talks about a mathematical approach to user experiments and achieving scale (split A/B testing, paradox of choice etc.). She also addresses the future of search, especially the CRIL - cross language information retrieval (breaking the language barrier by allowing everyone to find any document in any language and translate it on the fly). Watch video.
About Marissa
Marissa joined Google after a MS on AI in 1999 as Google’s first female engineer and led the user interface and webserver teams at that time. Her efforts have included designing and developing Google’s search interface, internationalizing the site to more than 100 languages, defining Google News, Gmail, and Orkut, and launching more than 100 features and products on Google.com. Several patents have been filed on her work in artificial intelligence and interface design.
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