Kevin Fox
Product Design Leader at Fury Labs
San Francisco Bay Area
Overview
Work Experience
Product Design Leader
2013 - Current
Advisor
2016 - 2019
Chief Experience Officer
2015 - 2016
At fuzzy.ai we're making it easy for anyone to incorporate Machine Learning in to any sized project. In the same way that databases have become ubiquitous in the last 30 years, Machine Learning will steadily become a standard component of most systems, whether it's used for fraud or spam detection, price optimization, content recommendation, or proactive assistance. Any place that organic systems meet silicon, hardcoded rulesets just don't cut it. They're static approximations that leave money on the table or waste time and resources. We're helping customers create systems that start out smart and get smarter over time. At Fuzzy.ai I have the exciting task of making Machine Learning approachable and relevant to people who think they need a data science team to take advantage of this technology, and also the opportunity to make the promise and value of Machine Learning clear to people who have never heard of it, yet can take huge advantage of its benefits.
Co-Founder
2011 - 2013
With a small group of former Apple and Google engineers, we created an incredible platform for the Internet of Things, making it easier than ever for developers to create and mass-produce physical devices with internet intelligence. The core of Electric Imp is a small hardware module that can serve as both the brain and the WiFi-enabled cloud connection for internet-aware devices, and an always-on cloud service that gives the device powerful information-gathering and response capabilities, even if the device is offline. Thousands of developers are creating products using the Imp, including GE, Quirky, Budweiser, Rachio, Lockitron, and many more.
Principal Designer - Mozilla Labs
2010 - 2011
Led UX design efforts within Mozilla Labs, a group devoted to skunkworks projects aimed at improving the web for all mankind.
“You Should Probably” is a Firefox extension that will remind you to do something useful with your life whenever you visit your favorite
Senior Product Designer
2009 - 2010
Joining Facebook as part of their acquisition of FriendFeed, I led research and design on several initiatives within Facebook including those for the Small Business group and Facebook Games.
Stay N' Alive Productions, LLC is a social media marketing firm that provides clients with measurable profits.
Director of User Experience
2008 - 2009
As FriendFeed's 2nd employee, I led FriendFeed's user experience design from its public launch through to its acquisition by Facebook in 2009. Many of FriendFeed's unique features continue on today in Facebook's News Feed.
FriendFeed is a feed aggregator that consolidates updates from social media, social bookmarking websites, blogs, and microblogging sites.
Raised $5,000,000.00 from Benchmark, Sanjeev Singh and Paul Buchheit.
Senior User Experience Design Lead
2003 - 2008
Designed Gmail's original user experience and lead the Gmail UX team from 2003 to 2005. Designed Google Calendar and Google Reader, and lead the Google Apps UX team (known at the time as the 'CCC' group) for two years before returning to more hands-on work on a variety of Google products, both released and unreleased. As a member of Google's UX hiring committee, I helped to grow the User Experience team from 7 people to over 160 practitioners. As a permanent member of Marissa Mayer's UX review committee I shepherded dozens of products to launch-ready status. As Google's product offering grew I created and led the CCC UX review committee for non-search products such as Gmail, Blogger, Google Docs and Google Spreadsheets.
Google is a multinational corporation that specializes in Internet-related services and organizes the world’s information.
Raised $26,100,000.00 from Angel Investors LP, Kleiner Perkins, Signatures Capital, Sequoia Capital, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Shaquille O'Neal, Henry Kissinger, Google and Tiger Woods.
User Experience Designer
2001 - 2002
Directed the interaction design of Yahoo’s Messenger and Chat properties across Windows, Mac, and UNIX platforms. Led a design team of two visual designers, two illustrators, and one usability researcher. At a critical time in the evolution of instant messaging, I was able to improve the way that 62 million people communicate online every day.
Yahoo is a technology and media company that serves users through its portfolio of digital platforms, products, and services.
Raised $6,800,000.00 from Visa, SoftBank Capital, Sequoia Capital and Reuters Venture Capital.
Senior Technologist
1999 - 2000
Managed the technical development group for a marketing communications startup. Led the interaction design and implementation of award-winning sites for Petstore.com and Hewlett- Packard. Bridged the gap between the visual design team and the back-end implementation partner by creating joyful interaction designs that were easily abstracted to database schemata.
Eleven is a full-service communications agency, brand studio, and innovations lab based in San Francisco.
Senior Technical Lead
1996 - 1999
Managed the information architecture and technical implementation teams for several e- commerce projects including the Levi’s Online Store and Segasoft’s Heat.Net. Technical lead and client contact for several $1-10M accounts. Clients valued that I shared their vision and worked with them to expand on their ideas.