# Davon Larson

> UX Designer at Google | Shark Tank S.17 🦈 | TIME Inventor

Location: Santa Cruz, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/davon

## Work Experience
### Sr. Interaction Designer (Core Compute, AI & ML) @ Google
Jan 2024 – Present | Sunnyvale, California, United States
Core Compute, TPUs, AI Hypercomputer

From Gemini on Cloud, to Machine Learning tools designed for GCP's largest Clients. I have become a UX SME on not just AI, but Training LLMs and RL at scale.

### Sr. Interaction Designer - Pixel Buds bungee @ Google
Jan 2025 – Jan 2025 | Mountain View, California, United States
Pixel Buds (headphones) Bungee - Sr. Interaction Hardware Designer

### UX Designer (Core Compute, AI, & ML) @ Google
Jan 2021 – Jan 2024 | Sunnyvale, California, United States
Compute, Consumption, Gemini, AI/ML

### Founder - Side project @ Surf Skull
Jan 2023 – Present | Santa Cruz, CA
As seen on Shark Tank, Season 17 | TIME Magazine Best inventions of 2025

### User Experience Designer @ IBM
Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 | San Francisco Bay Area
- Squad lead on Cloud Pak for Data as a Service, IBM's cloud low code machine learning developer platform (SaaS) 
- Principal designer on Cloud Pak for Data's Satellite integration 
- Conducts multiple research studies with Developers, Machine Learning Engineers, and Data Scientists
- Organizes design-thinking workshops to facilitate innovation
- Ideates and prototypes with stakeholders using Invision and Mural
- Designs screens on Sketch and Figma
- Service Design for Developer experience 
- Tests interactions with users using generative and qualitative research 
- Interaction design for an experimental Augmented Reality (AR) and Virtual Reality (VR) tool for exploring data
- Designed an Open Source Management tool from wireframes to deployment

### UX Engineering Fellow @ State of New Jersey
Jan 2018 – Jan 2019
- Developed the new nj.gov/mvc website for the New Jersey Office of Innovation
- Designed https://njcareers.org/ (has since been redesigned, old designs are in my portfolio)

### User Experience Designer @ New York University
Jan 2017 – Jan 2019 | New York, New York, United States
- Hired by the IT department to plan, design, and assist in developing software
- Responsible for information architecture, screen design, and prototyping
- Consulted with clients and a broad group of stakeholders at NYU schools and administrative units.
- Gained experience with JavaScript, CSS, HTML, and C++ (openFrameworks)
- Front-end implementation of designs and revising future designs in an agile SCRUM workflow
- Lead design thinking on multiple software design and development projects
- Moderated user research and focus groups
- Created wireframes, mockups, storyboards, user flows, process flows, and site maps to effectively communicate interaction and design ideas
- Helped establish, promote design guidelines, best practices, and standards

### User Experience Designer @ Colours
Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | Lehi, UT
- Worked with local and national companies to improve their User Experience and Branding

### Digital Producer @ VOLTAGE
Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 | Boulder, Colorado
- Digital Producer and Account Coordinator
- Worked with clients to create smart websites and product copy
- Set expectations, managed budgets and wrote SOWs for companies like Reebok and Adidas
- Managed the production of 6 websites, 15 email campaigns, 19 banner campaigns, thousands of lines of copy and dozens of designs
- Led growth of the Reebok Product Copy account by 100% and new accounts with Taylormade Golf

My projects included: Reebok Product Copy, Mapquest - MLB co-op, Big Chill, Bluestarcooking.com, and more


## Education
### Master of Science - MS in Integrated Design & Media
NYU Tandon School of Engineering

### Bachelor's degree in Communication; Computer Information Technology
Brigham Young University - Idaho


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/davonlarson

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Last updated: 2026-04-13