Irene Au – Design is as important as technology
Irene Au, operating partner at Khosla Ventures, led the user experience team at Google for six years and the user experience and design team at Yahoo! for eight years. In this talk she looks at how the different views of design at Google and Yahoo affected the companies.
What was it about Yahoo's organisational structure and the way the company viewed design that made it end up as a house of brands? How long did it take Google to come up with it's iconically simple, yet beautiful landing page? And can you guess the state of a company by looking at its design?
About the author
Martin Eriksson
Martin Eriksson has 25+ years experience building world-class online products in both corporate and start-up environments for global brands such as Monster, Financial Times, Huddle, and Covestor. He is the Founder of ProductTank, the Co-Founder and Curator of Mind the Product, and a Product Partner at leading venture capital fund EQT Ventures. He is also the author of the best-seller Product Leadership, How Top Product Leaders Launch Great Products and Build Successful Teams (O'Reilly, 2017).
