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Sasha Lubomirsky Has Held Design Leadership Roles at YouTube, Android, Airbnb and Medium. Damn! Here’s Five Questions With Her.

Hunter Walker

Sasha helped us uncover many learnings about how the community was using YouTube and her work informed many subsequent product decisions. Initially, there was a strong orientation towards usability studies — hilariously, my first official job title at Google was “usability engineer.”. SL: Great question.

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The Secret Sauce of a Successful Smart City

Austin Startup

Cartoon: Five people are sitting around a conference table discussing city planning and community engagement. The smart stick is an idea that came from a conversation an engineering student had with her blind uncle about the challenges he faced getting around a city. The magic in technology is how it can transform lives.