Emi Knight

Google News

 
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Google News on Search

Design Lead, 2018-2019

Our UX team’s goal for Google News was to improve how we organize information around stories to help people better understand the information they were consuming. I was responsible for leading the visual and interaction UX frameworks across news on search and worked as a liason between our team and the visual design horizontal team.

 
 
 
 
““Emi is an exceptional design thinker, comprehensive in her designs, and an impact maker. She’s a natural problem-solver that always prioritizes the user above everything else. She made a lot of impact on our team at Google by always advocating for user-centered design thinking. She’s passionate about developing elegant solutions that shape the product to be more useful, more human.””
— Yofred Moik, Interaction Designer at Google
 
 
 
 
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Google CEO presenting at Google IO 2019

 
 
 
““Emi has a distinct ability to merge storytelling with a fine tuned aesthetic sense. She was known for delivering highly crafted user-center narratives that integrated beautiful visuals that clearly communicated the core value of our product. It was a delight to have had the opportunity to collaborate and team with her at Google.””
— Katrina Tempero, Design Manager at Google
 
 
 
 
 
 

Google News App

Interaction Designer, 2016-2018

My first year at Google was working on a personalized news app that replaced Google News & Weather and Google Play Newsstand. We created an app where you could add your interests and stay caught up on top events. I was responsible for concept designs, design research, pitch decks for VPs and CEO, interaction designs, visual design liaison, and data communication spreadsheets.

 
 
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Engineering director presenting at Google IO 2018

 
 
 
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Visual Stories

Concept Designer & Research Asst.

My first project at Google resulted in the Visual Stories project. Data showed that people are not reading long-form articles on mobile devices. Our solution was a more visual article format that publishers could push to Google. I co-created the design concept for Visual Stories with designer Hong Wei. I was responsible for concept design, user research, research video art direction & pitch decks for CEO.