Working as intended: how disability has made me a better designer - Melissa Strader

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When I had two serious strokes in 2017, people assumed that my career as a designer was over. Two years later, I run a design group in Google Health, using what I learned from my health experience to advocate for better products. I’ll share how experiencing severe constraints unlocked resilience and creativity, and how vulnerability changed how I approach my career.

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USA, San Francisco

Melissa Strader
UX Lead – Google

Melissa Strader currently manages a design group in Google Health. She spent 10 years working at Google on Google Fiber, Google Voice, and Google Analytics, and other products. Prior to Google, she was the Chief UX Officer for Bloomboard, Inc, Design Leader at eBay, and UX Director for Milo.com. Before moving to Silicon Valley, Melissa was a Human Factors researcher with the University of Maryland Baltimore, School of Medicine. Melissa earned a bachelor of science in psychology with a biopsych emphasis from The Ohio State University, and studied Human Factors and Applied Cognition at George Mason University.

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