# giovanna nicosia

> UX Design Lead at Google

Location: New York, New York, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/giovanna

A polymath with an artist’s soul, Giovanna Nicosia is passionate about creating thoughtful and holistic interaction design experiences. Her irrepressible curiosity has led her to travel the world in search of inspiration. From her native Sicily to Helsinki, Chicago, San Francisco and now Google in New York, Giovanna has brought her visual storytelling, concept creation, and digital prototyping skills to bear on cutting-edge web, TV, and mobile projects for such clients as Nokia, Ericsson, IBM, Garanti, TeliaSonera, Telefonica and PNC among others. 
Before joining Google, Giovanna was a Sr. Interaction Designer at Fuseproject (San Francisco), YouTube (San Bruno) as well as IDEO (Chicago) and Visual Interaction Designer at Fjord, Finland’s leading service-design consultancy. 
Previous to that, her interest in the intersection of fashion and technology led her to work on innovative web and retail experiences for Dolce & Gabbana and Fabrica, the creative research heart of Benetton.
Giovanna’s education is similarly well-traveled and eclectic: she majored in painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Florence, studied tradition knitting techniques and textile at TAIK, University of Art and Design in Helsinki, and received her Master’s in Visual and Multimedia Communication at IUAV University of Venice.
When she’s not immersed in extensive and unpredictable online research, Giovanna can be found pouring through indie magazines, practicing Japanese Tea Ceremony, e-broidering with LilyPad Arduino, drawing fanciful creatures, or whipping up a decadent batch of Ravioli di Ricotta—sometimes all at once.

## Work Experience
### UX Design Lead @ Google
Jan 2020 – Present | New York, United States
UX for Search with focus on Local experiences and SMB Success

### Sr. Interaction Designer @ Google
Jan 2019 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area
UX for Google Maps with focus on Food experiences

### Sr. Interaction Designer @ YouTube
Jan 2017 – Jan 2019 | San Bruno, California
UX for YouTube Emerging Markets with special focus on India, Indonesia and Africa: 
- Design lead for YouTube Go, a two-year journey that resulted in a video streaming app specifically for emerging market users.
- Design lead for YouTube on Jio Feature Phone

### Interaction Designer @ Google
Jan 2015 – Jan 2017 | Mountain View

### Senior UX Designer @ fuseproject
Jan 2014 – Jan 2015

### Interaction Designer @ IDEO
Jan 2012 – Jan 2014

### Interaction Designer @ Fjord
Jan 2009 – Jan 2012 | Helsinki - Finland
Interaction and visual designer working on a wide range of projects from early stage research and concepts to final delivery and client support.

### Ext-Interaction Designer @ Nokia
Jan 2011 – Jan 2011 | Helsinki - Finland

### Independent Interaction Designer @ Interaction Design Lab
Jan 2009 – Jan 2009

### Concept/Interaction Designer @ Dolce & Gabbana - Digital Marketing & Communication
Jan 2008 – Jan 2009
Creative researcher and concept designer, working on web and retail projects.

### Visual/Interaction Design student @ IUAV
Jan 2006 – Jan 2008

### Interaction Designer @ Fabrica
Jan 2007 – Jan 2007 | Treviso, Italy
Interaction designer internship. Interactive Department in collaboration with Andy Cameron.

### Erasmus student @ Taik
Jan 2004 – Jan 2004


## Education
### master in Visual and Multimedia Design
Università Iuav di Venezia
Jan 2006 – Jan 2008

### Bachelor in Painting
Academy of fine Arts of Florence
Jan 1999 – Jan 2005

### Erasmus in Visual Culture/Fine Arts
TAIK- Taideteollinen korkeakoulu Helsinki
Jan 2004 – Jan 2004


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/giovannanicosia
- Portfolio: http://www.strisceapois.com

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Last updated: 2026-03-30