Irene Au is Design Partner at Khosla Ventures, where she works with early-, mid-, and late-stage startup CEOs. Irene has unprecedented experience elevating the strategic importance of design within internet companies, having built and led the entire User Experience and Design teams at Google (2006-2012), Yahoo! (1998-2006), and Udacity (2012-2014). She began her career as an interaction designer at Netscape Communications, where she worked on the design of the internet’s first commercial web browser. Irene also teaches yoga at Avalon Yoga Center in Palo Alto where she is among the teacher training program faculty and is a frequent author and speaker on mindfulness practices, design, and creativity.
Talks by Irene
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Design is as Critical as Technology
TopicsDesign Strategy, Leadership
What every CEO needs to know about...
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Cultivating Empathic Design in an Analytical World
TopicsData
Panel with Irene Au, Director of User Experience, Google; Jane Fulton Suri, Creative...
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Body Languages of Interaction Design
TopicsLeadership
Interaction design is by now a well-understood discipline. As a professional...
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The Architecture of Creative Collaboration
TopicsDesign Strategy, Leadership
Khosla Ventures design partner Irene Au learned some of her most valuable design...
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Design & The Self
TopicsCareer, Culture, Leadership
Design has the power to shape how we think and feel. It’s also the tangible...
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