# Alex Faaborg

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

Location: Mountain View, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/alexfaaborg

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.  Prior to joining Google, Alex served at Mozilla as the principal designer on Firefox for 5 years, leading the design of Firefox 2, 3 and 4.

Much of Alex’s innovative work in the technology industry comes from his experience in academia: at the MIT Media Lab he researched artificial intelligence, intelligent agents, and context aware computing. Alex’s interactive design work is based on fundamentals of human cognition and perception, from his background in Cognitive Science and Information Science at Cornell University.

## Work Experience
### Product Designer, AR @ Meta
Jan 2022 – Present | Burlingame, California, United States
Designing future AR products

### Design Lead, AR/VR @ Google
Jan 2011 – Jan 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

### Principal Designer @ Mozilla Corporation
Jan 2006 – Jan 2011 | Mountain View, CA
Led the design team for Firefox 2, 3 and 4

### Research Assistant @ MIT Media Lab
Jan 2003 – Jan 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

### Research Assistant @ Cornell University
Jan 2002 – Jan 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

### Research Assistant @ Cornell University
Jan 2001 – Jan 2002 | Ithaca, New York, United States
Human Computer Interaction Group
-Programmed an application that allowed professors to push content onto student computers in real time during lectures


## Education
### MS in Media Arts and Sciences
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

### BA in Information Science
Cornell University


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/faaborg
- Website: http://blog.mozilla.com/faaborg/

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Last updated: 2026-02-23