How the world finds what it’s looking for.

The modern era, but biology is still catching up.

The standard for search suggestion & results

People still used Internet Explorer—for real.

Barely one year into Obama’s first term. People were listening to Rihanna sing about finding love in a hopeless place. The iPhone 3GS was the hottest thing.

Web 2.0 is still pretty new, but animation, interactivity, and more data are coming to even the previously static Google Search UI.

Google Chrome hadn’t yet come out, Web 2.0 was still a thing. Android was brand new.

Google plays a huge role in public emergencies, like pandemics. We worked with HHS to provide public health guidance and to direct people to resources like flu vaccine clinics

As if the financial crisis wasn’t enough, here was a potentially serious pandemic.

The era of ”Big Data,” and just getting a handle on how to structure it.

Empowering people to find what works, faster

People were listening on their iPhone 6 to Hotline Bling.

Portable tech was coming of age—it was the year of the Apple Watch.

Folks might have been dancing to Happy by Pharrell Williams.

A new standard for open public health data

Governments were just starting to adopt modern technologies, and yes, we still had to support Internet Explorer.

The authoritative source on Mac user interface design.

Apple just released the iPod. Google just got out of beta. If you had a cell phone at all, it was a flip phone.

A lot of software still came in boxes—on a CD.

## **Suggest.** The front door of every Google search.

## **The very first thing you interact with when you search.** What should it do?

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As Google Search found itself in more places—browsers, toolbars, and mobile phones, query suggestions became increasingly helpful for guiding people where they were going. But how could we **enhance and make the search experience appropriately consistent everywhere**—especialy in small spaces?

This is how you get where you’re going on the web.

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The elegance of Suggest belies the fine thought, design, and engineering effort that went into it. A surprising amount of work built an experience that disappears into your routine.

Superb engineering means Google can give you direction or an answer in milliseconds. That challenged our ability to measure success. If you didn't go through with a search, did we give you what you needed?

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I was the lead designer on this project to update, enhance, and make your initial Search experience consistent and magical on any platform—google.com, Google Chrome, Internet Explorer, Firefox, Toolbar, on a BlackBerry, or embedded in some other application.

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Suggest. The front door of every Google search.

Suggest

Product designer