COVID-19 Response: Designing critical health information during a global pandemic

I led design for core parts of Google Search's COVID-19 response, partnering with peers and teams across Search to build a comprehensive consolidated experience that served as a central information hub during unprecedented search volume. The project required rapid innovation to address global health literacy challenges through data visualizations, animations and illustrations, mental wellbeing resources, and authoritative vaccine information.

UX and data visualization design lead
Responsible for designing statistics features, collaborating with data visualization experts, addressing health literacy challenges through visual solutions, and creating the Health Info section for the Vaccines experience—all while working under extreme time pressure with direct executive oversight.

ROLE

Successfully designed and launched vital information features on an almost daily basis during a period when COVID-19 queries surpassed even "weather" and "news," helping billions of users worldwide access authoritative health information during the most significant global health crisis in a century.

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