Ryan Fedyk

Design Leader and storyteller

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Designing experiences to improve peoples lives

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Building teams

Passionate about building and growing UX teams that tackle complex business and user problems. Excited to get the most out of my teams by innovating on process, advocating for user centered design and growing strategic and business impact skills.

Creating experiences

What if you could create a tool that someone would use daily?  How can you increase productivity? Efficiency? Pleasure?  What happens when you use an application the third time?  The eighth time? The 126th time?  I create experiences that are versatile and efficient but also designed to continually engage and delight humans.

Day Jobs

I work for companies that are dreaming of the future.  Companies that shape the future.  We live in a time where buzz words like 'disruption', 'moonshot', and 'artificial intelligence' have saturated our workplaces.  It's hard to find the right atmosphere to truly innovate, right now, for me that place is at Google working to redefine the future of hybrid productivity with Meet

Professor and lecturer at NYU Tisch MFAs and Stern business PHDs

Speaking at UXU 2019 MTV California

Case studies

These launches come from the amazing teams I have built, led and been a part of

 
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Case study 1

Transforming Google Meet from feature chasing to AI focused differentiators

During the pandemic Meet had evolved significantly as the team brought critical features to launch. After my team brought the world back to the office with hybrid work I pivoted the broader team to focus on longer term vision, product differentiators and increasing product excellence.

Expressive reactions in Google Meet

Custom GenAI backgrounds

People Grid redesign

Personalize your look with Stackable Effects

 

Case study 2

Bringing the workforce back to the office with Google Meet

During the pandemic video conferencing had evolved dramatically but no one knew how to bring that back into the office. Me and my team delivered the promise of hybrid work to Meets 242 million users and established hybrid as the future of work.

What I did

  • Led the team to launch 7 key features for Meet to land a successful return to office for our customers and pave the way for hybrid work

  • Built a healthy team - recruited, instituted norms and processes

  • Brought all of our devices back online and achieved an incredible 89% CSAT

  • Launched 2 new collaboration devices. The Board 65 and Series One 27

  • Led the strategy and launch of the redesign / reenvisioning of our base grid to be more people focused and delightful

  • Led the pivot to AI features and key launches (Generative Backgrounds, AI layouts, and more)

Dynamic Tiles

Google Meet

FaceMatch - in room identity

The Future of Hybrid Work

Google Meet

Touch controller redesign

Better hybrid collaboration

 

Case study 3

Redefining the future of education

The classroom had been changing for years as more and more workflows became digital. To truly embrace new teaching methodologies teachers needed more robust and integrated planning, grading and assignment distribution tools. My team rebuilt Google Classroom to meet those users needs.

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Google Classroom redesign

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The future of education

Google Classroom

 

Case study 4

Using technology to improve public safety at Jigsaw

During the 2018 election we saw an influx of misinformation online which divided local and international communities. With the subsequent BLM movement and COVID-19 pandemic my team developed technology to improve information hygiene online, community discourse and aid in reducing police violence using technology.

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Detecting harmful misinformation

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VR de-escalation training for police

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Ending repressive censorship

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Reducing toxic langauge online

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Tools to empower fact checkers

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Other Notable Launches

 
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NUI with Cortana

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Gesture UI with Kinect

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Flawless voice transcription with Google Assistant

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A contextually helpful Windows phone

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AR Experiments

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AR Translation with Bing

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The future of productivity with Office

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Automating busywork

 

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