Alex Faaborg

Alex Faaborg

Alex Faaborg

Designer Meta Reality Labs | Formerly @ Google, Firefox, MIT Media Lab

Alex Faaborg is a designer in Meta's Reality Labs, working on future AR products. Previously he was at Google for 10 years, leading design teams working on Lens, ARCore, Daydream, Android Wear, and the Android System UI for KitKat. He contributed to the OS design of Google Glass.

LinkedIn Website

2022 — NowMetaProduct Designer, AR

2022 — Now

Burlingame, California, United States

Designing future AR products

2011 — 2022GoogleDesign Lead, AR/VR

2011 — 2022

Mountain View, CA

Lead designer, Google Lens ecosystem

Lead designer, ARCore

Lead designer, Daydream app ecosystem

Lead designer, Android Wear

Designer, Google Glass

Lead designer, Google Now

Lead designer, Android system UI for KitKat and the Nexus 5

2006 — 2011Mozilla CorporationPrincipal Designer

2006 — 2011

Mountain View, CA

Led the design team for Firefox 2, 3 and 4

2003 — 2005MIT Media LabResearch Assistant

2003 — 2005

Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

Software Agents Group

Researched ways to improve a variety of software applications by giving them access to 700,000 facts about the world. Prototypes include:

-Improved word prediction for text entry on mobile devices

-A Semantic Web explorer bar for Microsoft Internet Explorer

-Dynamically generated video game environments

-Improved speech recognition

-Algorithms to understand users' goals when they search their social network

-A tourist's phrasebook that understands the context of the current situation

Presented technology demos for corporate sponsors visiting the Media Lab, including the CTO of Sony, and a the CTO of Motorola

2002 — 2002Cornell UniversityResearch Assistant

2002 — 2002

Ithaca, New York, United States

Computer Science Department

Designed and implemented tools for annotating Web resources with RDF metadata

Modified Microsoft Internet Explorer to detect common structures and properties of Web sites and then present users with relevant tasks

Education

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

MS

Cornell University

BA