# Will Walker

> Google DeepMind, Apple, Formlabs

Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/willwalker

Staff product designer on Gemini homepage.

## Work Experience
### Staff Designer @ Google DeepMind
Jan 2024 – Present | San Francisco, CA
Many projects launched / live since joining Gemini: 

- Gemini on Android Auto, Watch and Pixel Buds (system architecture)
- UX DRI – Gemini on Pixel Buds
- Gemini Live (realtime, multi-modal conversational interface)
- Audio haptic design system (watch, auto, mobile)
- Personal Intelligence within the Gemini app
- UX DRI – Gemini Home Screen

### Staff Designer @ Google
Jan 2024 – Present | San Francisco, California, United States
Gemini on mobile, headphones, wearables and peripherals

### Lead Designer, Assistant on Wearables @ Google
Jan 2022 – Jan 2024 | San Francisco, California, United States
Leverage nonverbal human signals into improved conversational AI.

### Senior User Experience Designer @ Google
Jan 2020 – Jan 2023 | Mountain View, California

### Senior UX Designer @ Apple
Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | Cupertino, CA

### Senior Product Designer | Hardware Interaction Design @ MIT Design Lab
Jan 2016 – Jan 2020 | Cambridge, Massachusetts
The Design Lab exists within the context of innovation at MIT, combining the domains of engineering, art and user-centered research. I work at the crossroads of product strategy, design and product management.

• Individually contributing to industrial and digital design with deep knowledge of rapid prototoyping.
• Recruit and managing cross-functional teams of 6-12 to deliver advanced functional prototypes using agile methodology and scrum.
• Oversee delivery of products for sponsors, from concept pitch to design for manufacturing.
• Developed an internal rapid prototyping workshop for product design.

### Product Designer @ Formlabs
Jan 2013 – Jan 2016 | Somerville, MA
Formlabs designs and builds the world's most advanced 3D printers.

• Generated testable hypothesis and built cross-functional teams to set specifications, prototype, test and ship new products and features.
• Prototyped and shipped UI flows and features.
• Brand thought leadership: speaker at MIT, Harvard, CES, O'Reilly Solid, Siggraph, SXSW, etc.

### Cofounder @ Aerogel Technologies
Jan 2008 – Jan 2013 | Boston, MA
Aerogel Technologies develops and manufactures ultra low density ceramics and polymers for insulation and aerospace engineering.

Roles:
• Bootstrapped firm as design cofounder. 

• Started from a business plan, finished with 4 FT employees, 3 digit year-over-year revenue growth, patent portfolio. Developed automation scripts and formulations of the core product. 

• Development of product formulas, production systems design, product R&D and general operations.

• Later work included product strategy, site planning, business development and negotiating custom R&D contract work.

### Founder @ WW Studio
Jan 2002 – Jan 2008 | Cambridge
Internationally exhibited artist. Select exhibitions at the Bronx Museum of Art, awarded Pollock Krasner and NYFA grants.


## Education
### Certification in Product Management
General Assembly

### Master of Arts Teaching (M.A.T) in Art Education
Maryland Institute College of Art

### Bachelor of Fine Arts (B.F.A.) in Painting
Maryland Institute College of Art

### Bachelor of Arts - BA in Fine and Studio Arts
Maryland Institute College of Art

### MAT in BFA
Maryland Institute College of Art


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/willrobertwalker
- Portfolio: https://willwalker.design

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Source: https://flows.cv/willwalker
JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/willwalker/resume.json
Last updated: 2026-04-13