“i worked with him for years at danger, and discovered he has a keen design sense, a rare talent for creating innovative user interfaces, and a passionate commitment to making things right. i also trust his ears (and from an audio guy, there is no higher praise). - pdx”
Chris Nesladek
Los Angeles, California, United States
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About
I bring over 20 years of experience designing and shipping end-to-end user-centered…
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It was an honor to talk with the #GoogleAccelerator startup founders at the Google Female AI Founders lunch in Berlin today. Thank you for sharing…
It was an honor to talk with the #GoogleAccelerator startup founders at the Google Female AI Founders lunch in Berlin today. Thank you for sharing…
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🚀 🎉 📣 Meta Quest Lifestyle App Accelerator. Builders: Apply now 🚀 🎉 📣 tl;dr: Building an AR/VR/MR experience for consumers? Apply to the…
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Experience
Education
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DePaul University
Activities and Societies: Student Government, Senator LA&S. Phi Beta Kappa
Bachelor of Arts in Art History, Criticism, and Conservation with a Minor in History, magna cum laude -
-Winner of Lenore Pressman Prize for Excellence in Art Historical writing.
-Two-time scholarship recipient to School of the Art Institute of Chicago. -
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Patents
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Display panel or portion thereof with a graphical user interface
Filed US 29/733,013
Paenl Display System for Mixed Reality Content inside a Graphical User Interface.
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Managing User Data on an Electronic Device
Filed US 16/038,448
Cloud Data Storage for Nextbit Robin Device Cloud Backup Service
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Method of Configuring a Personalized Consumer Rating Area
Issued US 9127962
A method of configuring a personalized geographical area for a user. An electronic system for providing a geographical-based service (e.g., a business directory, mapping, consumer opinions) obtains information regarding locations that can be associated with the user. Such locations may include his home address, the zip code in which he works, a business district he provides or reviews consumer opinions for, an address of an establishment for which he requests a map, etc. Using the various…
A method of configuring a personalized geographical area for a user. An electronic system for providing a geographical-based service (e.g., a business directory, mapping, consumer opinions) obtains information regarding locations that can be associated with the user. Such locations may include his home address, the zip code in which he works, a business district he provides or reviews consumer opinions for, an address of an establishment for which he requests a map, etc. Using the various locations associated with the user, a personalized geographical area is configured for the user, to act as his default area when reviewing consumer opinions, requesting business locations and/or other purposes. His personalized area may change over time as the system obtains newer information regarding his activities. The personalized area may be of any size and shape, particularly non-circular, as it may be derived based on travel distances over terrain (i.e., instead of straight-line distance).
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Facilitating embedded dynamic commercial offers
Issued US 8799066
A system that facilitates providing of commercial offers is described. During operation, this system receives financial information associated with a user of financial software. Then, the system presents an icon corresponding to the commercial offer to the user. This commercial offer is targeted to the user based on a financial history of the user, which includes multiple transactions with multiple commercial establishments. Moreover, the icon exhibits animated behavior which can vary over…
A system that facilitates providing of commercial offers is described. During operation, this system receives financial information associated with a user of financial software. Then, the system presents an icon corresponding to the commercial offer to the user. This commercial offer is targeted to the user based on a financial history of the user, which includes multiple transactions with multiple commercial establishments. Moreover, the icon exhibits animated behavior which can vary over time, and the user can pursue the commercial offer by interacting with the icon.
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Navigation control for an electronic device
Issued US 8,365,074
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for suggesting search queries relevant to a user's context. One of the methods includes providing a navigation control for navigating in a graphical space. A portion of a large-scale graphical space is displayed on a screen of an electronic device and a navigation control is generated and displayed on the screen. The navigation control includes a ring-shaped graphical entity and a knob graphical…
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for suggesting search queries relevant to a user's context. One of the methods includes providing a navigation control for navigating in a graphical space. A portion of a large-scale graphical space is displayed on a screen of an electronic device and a navigation control is generated and displayed on the screen. The navigation control includes a ring-shaped graphical entity and a knob graphical entity positioned at point on the ring-shaped graphical entity. A zooming user input can be received to the navigation control, and in response, zooming in the graphical space is provided. The zooming user input includes the user selecting the knob graphical entity and tracing a shape of the ring-shaped graphical entity with the knob graphical entity in either a first direction to zoom in or in a second direction to zoom out.
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Method and apparatus for managing alerts
Issued US 8,255,298
A method and apparatus for managing alerts is described, the method including receiving consumer financial data including at least one financial deadline. Alert level criteria is applied to the data in order to determine an alert level for each of the deadlines. A visual or audible alert indicator is activated which corresponds with at least one alert level. Alert level criteria is periodically reapplied to determine an alert level for each of the deadlines.
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Method and apparatus for managing tax return preparation
Issued US 7,805,343
A method for managing tax return preparation includes receiving employee first information from a first company on behalf of a first employee, and preparing a tax return using the employee first information. The method further includes access to the tax return being provided to the employee. When the employee is satisfied, authorization is received to file the tax return on behalf of the employee and the tax return is filed with a tax authority.
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Touch screen user interfaces
Filed US 064336
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for displaying touch screen user interfaces. In one aspect, an electronic device includes one or more data processing devices and a touch screen coupled to the one or more data processing devices to display a user interface under the direction thereof. The user interface includes a first icon representing a relatively broad aspect of the functionality provided by the device, and a collection of…
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for displaying touch screen user interfaces. In one aspect, an electronic device includes one or more data processing devices and a touch screen coupled to the one or more data processing devices to display a user interface under the direction thereof. The user interface includes a first icon representing a relatively broad aspect of the functionality provided by the device, and a collection of three or more icons each representing a different, relatively narrower aspect of the functionality provided by the device. The aspects represented by the three or more icons in the collection are encompassed within the aspect represented by the first icon, the three or more icons arranged generally around the first icon on the touch screen.
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Displaying a collection of interactive elements that trigger actions directed to an item
Filed US 052024
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for displaying of collections of interactive elements that trigger actions directed to a particular contact, message, media file, or other item. In one aspect, a method is performed by a system comprising one or more data processing devices and a touchscreen display. The method includes displaying several identifiers, receiving user interaction with a first of the interactive elements that is…
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for displaying of collections of interactive elements that trigger actions directed to a particular contact, message, media file, or other item. In one aspect, a method is performed by a system comprising one or more data processing devices and a touchscreen display. The method includes displaying several identifiers, receiving user interaction with a first of the interactive elements that is associated with a first of the identifiers, in response to the user interaction, displaying a collection of action widgets on the touchscreen display, receiving user interaction with a first of the action widgets that is in the collection displayed on the touchscreen display, and performing the action represented by the first of the action widgets on the item identified by the first identifier.
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Social Messaging User Interface
Filed US 61255847
Hubs for social interaction via electronic devices are described. In one aspect, a data processing device includes a display screen displaying a social interaction hub, the social interaction hub including a collection of records. Each record includes a counterparty identifier identifying a counterparty of a past social interaction event, a mode indicium identifying a mode by which the past social interaction event with the counterparty occurred, and a collection of mode indicia each…
Hubs for social interaction via electronic devices are described. In one aspect, a data processing device includes a display screen displaying a social interaction hub, the social interaction hub including a collection of records. Each record includes a counterparty identifier identifying a counterparty of a past social interaction event, a mode indicium identifying a mode by which the past social interaction event with the counterparty occurred, and a collection of mode indicia each identifying a mode by which a future, outgoing social interaction event with the counterparty can occur. The counterparty identifier, the mode indicium, and the collection of mode indicia are associated with one another in the records of the social interaction hub.
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Managing User Data on an Electronic Device
US 10,057,726
Some examples include determining an upcoming event involving an electronic device, such as the device being out of communication with a network, the device running out of local storage space, or the like. The device may determine, based at least in part on an event category of the upcoming event and/or other considerations, first pieces of user data stored at a network storage to download to the device prior to the event. Further, the device may determine second pieces of user data to delete…
Some examples include determining an upcoming event involving an electronic device, such as the device being out of communication with a network, the device running out of local storage space, or the like. The device may determine, based at least in part on an event category of the upcoming event and/or other considerations, first pieces of user data stored at a network storage to download to the device prior to the event. Further, the device may determine second pieces of user data to delete from a local storage of the device to make space available in the local storage for the first pieces of user data that are recommended to be downloaded for the event. In some cases, the device may present, in one or more GUIs, a ranked list of user data recommended for download, and another ranked list of user data recommended for deletion.
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Honors & Awards
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Google Manager Recognition
Graham Jenkin, Head of Commerce UX
Recipient of Manager's award for helping Graham Jenkin's transition into Commerce UX as the team's new manager.
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2010 Google Founders Award for Android
Google, Inc.
Founder's Award - Google's Highest Honor
Larry Page, Sergey Brin
Recognized and awarded the Google Founder's award for outstanding contribution to Google as part of the team working on Android. -
Google Certificate of Excellence
Jim Palmer, Director of Android UX
Recognized for outstanding work on the Twitter for Android 1.0 application release.
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