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The Google Photos team in Sydney Australia was responsible for a portfolio of products outside of the core Google Photos app and web experience. I led UX for the Google Photos APIs, Snapseed and an unreleased social experience.
Google Photos Sydney team talking at an internal Google event
Estimation cards I had made for feature planning
Creative definition and prioritization workshop I designed and facilitated to define machine learning heuristics for printable images
Integration exploration workshop I designed and facilitated with external partners
Feature project
Google Photos APIs
Developer-friendly APIs to add the power of Google Photos to any digital product.
As the lead UX designer for the Google Photos APIs I had two major users to focus on: the Google Photos end user and the APIs developer/partner user. My primary focus was to ensure user privacy was upheld for our own end users, while providing partners with the tools and guides necessary to help them succeed with their own products and businesses.
Focusing on privacy
I implemented a UX review process on the Google Photos APIs. I used the review process to simultaneously audit and help developer partners improve their UX practices, and to identify any bad actors or potential instances of user deception.
The process started with UX Guidelines and use case examples, and ended with a formal review of any third party integration before they were able to publish. In this way we were able to uphold the privacy promise to our own users, and allow them to integrate their Google Photos data into third party products and services to get the most out of their own photos.
Innovating with partners
I also focused on pushing our APIs forward into new industries and worked with partners to innovate on the ways they could create integrations. I ran various co-design workshops with industry leading companies to identify the best way the overlapping userbase could be supported.
I facilitated ideation workshops with the Google Photos cross-functional team to identify new industries that would benefit from interesting integrations with Google Photos users. The results of these workshops were used to inform our business development teams outreach and led to new and exciting partnerships.