Managed user experience for personal context products including real-time, semantic and historical location. Contributing to Google's holistic understanding of user context.
Managed the user experience of several products related to personal context, including real-time location, semantic understanding, and historical location (Maps Timeline) across iPhone, Android, and web platforms.
The challenge was building features that provided genuine user value while maintaining strict privacy expectations. Every feature required intensive research and user testing to find the right balance.
Created detailed wireframes, prototypes, and visual design for location-based features. Managed the expectations of privacy and user value through user research, ensuring features felt helpful rather than invasive.
Contributed to Google's holistic understanding of user context—laying groundwork for features like personalized recommendations, "Your Match" scores, and predictive suggestions that would ship in later Maps updates.
Timeline helps users remember places they've been by automatically saving visits and routes. View a daily snapshot of where you've traveled, how far you went, and by what method—walking, biking, driving, or transit. Users can edit locations for accuracy, delete any day or date range, and customize activity types from surfing to horseback riding. Launched on Android and web in 2015, expanded to iOS in 2017.
This foundational work on personal context informed many later Maps features including the "For You" tab with personalized recommendations, "Your Match" scores for restaurants and venues, and the proactive suggestions that make Maps feel anticipatory rather than reactive.