# Daniel Steinbock

> Anthropologist @ Google. Human-centered product design. Formerly Stanford, Meta.

Location: Petaluma, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/danielsteinbock

Seasoned researcher specializing in foundational user research for innovation and strategy in new technology development. Ethnographic needfinding, customer development, and UX. I also facilitate design sprints, teach and coach storytelling.

At Stanford, I taught and mentored graduate students in the Stanford Design Program (d.school), specializing in human-centered design research methods.

## Work Experience
### Senior Researcher @ Google
Jan 2022 – Present | Mountain View, California, United States
Foundational research and design for future user experiences powered by computational photography and generative AI.

### Consultant / Facilitator @ Freelance Design Research & Strategy
Jan 2010 – Present

### Principal Product Designer @ Protagonist
Jan 2021 – Jan 2022
Collaboration tools for the purpose economy. Head of Fingerspitzengefühl.

### UX Researcher & Designer @ Meta
Jan 2016 – Jan 2021 | Menlo Park, California, United States
Via Stripe Partners (UK) & Pro Unlimited (US). Long-term UX Research and Design consultant in R&D for augmented reality, spatial computing (2d and 3d mapping), digital assistants for consumer hardware, and civic tech.

### Lecturer @ Stanford University
Jan 2014 – Jan 2016 | Stanford, California, United States
Lecturer in Design, Graduate Program in Design

### Editor In Chief @ True Story Company
Jan 2012 – Jan 2016
Co-creator of the True Story Podcast and True Story Game. The podcast shares live recordings from underground storytelling parties in living rooms around the world. The True Story Game: a card game that teaches players how to be better storytellers. www.truestorytime.org

### Assistant Professor @ Keio University Graduate School of Media Design
Jan 2012 – Jan 2014
Teaching: Design Ethnography. Program Development: Global Innovation Design w/ Pratt Institute, Royal College of Art and Imperial College London.

### Lecturer, Graduate Student Instructor, Researcher @ Stanford University
Jan 2005 – Jan 2012 | Palo Alto, California
Lecturer in the Stanford Design Program & School of Education
Researcher in Anthropology of Education, Learning Sciences & Technology Design

### Instructor @ Hasso Plattner Institute of Design at Stanford
Jan 2007 – Jan 2008 | Stanford, California
Instructor, Curriculum Designer, Founding Member of K12 Design Education lab

### Researcher @ Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research
Jan 2005 – Jan 2006 | Stanford, California
Social Networks Analyst, Quantitative Researcher

### Educational Software Engineer @ Lunar Logic
Jan 2004 – Jan 2005
Java and XML web application development.


## Education
### Ph.D. in Learning Sciences & Technology Design, Anthropology of Education
Stanford University

### Master of Science (M.S.) in Engineering (focus in Human-Centered Design Methodology)
Stanford University

### Certificate of Study in Complex Systems Science
Santa Fe Institute

### B.Sci. in Computer Science
University of California, Santa Cruz


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/dsteinbock
- Portfolio: https://www.steinbock.org

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Last updated: 2026-04-13