Exposure Notifications
In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, Google and Apple joined forces to help combat the spread of the virus using Bluetooth technology.
Role
Design Lead (Google Play)
Team members
Rod Graves, Jingyu Wu, Joyaa Lin, Jane Park
In the wake of the 2020 world pandemic, Apple and Google partner on COVID-19 contact tracing technology to protect people and get society back up and running. Since COVID-19 can be transmitted through close proximity to affected individuals, public health officials have identified contact tracing as a valuable tool to help contain its spread.
By partnering with cross functional, product area (Google Play and Android) and company (Google and Apple) stakeholders, I led design efforts for Google Play, delivering high-quality solutions, influencing patterns and flows, providing multiple iterations and options of design.
When recognizing proposed solution wasn’t ideal, I challenged approach with alternative solutions, escalating when appropriate, and implementing real-time — sometimes conflicting — opinions and feedback from senior executives and leads.
150+ million app installs…
68 app launches worldwide
26 US states/territories
15% less infections*
11% less deaths*
“…Google and Apple’s Exposure Notification System (ENS), can help to control the epidemic…15% uptake of an exposure notification system could reduce infections by 15% and deaths by 11%.” — *University of Oxford
“Since its launch on 24 September, the NHS COVID-19 app has been downloaded by more than 19 million people in England and Wales.” — Gov.uk
