Andy Cobb
UX Designer — Six years of experience designing products used by millions of people.
Work Experience
Figma
Figma
Lead UX Designer
Mar, 2017 - Current
- Led design of auto layout feature that allows customers to easily resize components.
- Improved layout grid interface, allowing for more precise and consistent layouts.
- Collaborated with the Product team to improve accessibility site wide
Google
UX Designer
2014 - 2017
- Led material design team of 6 designers responsible for standardizing design across Google properties.
- Created a color palette for creating hierarchical, expressive, and legible websites.
- The color palette also met accessibility standards for contrast and color blindness.
Education
Conferences
Clarity
Gave keynote presentation on the benefits of design systems.
Epicurrence
Presented case study on adopting Material Design across Google.
Skills
- Product design
- Design systems
- Figma
- Sketch
- Illustrator
- Accessibility
- Usability testing
- Web design
- HTML
- CSS