Google Assistant Ecosystem
Assistant work across TV, Android Auto, and Bose
- Company
- Timeline
- 2018 - 2019
- Role
- Product Designer at Google
Overview
I designed across Google Assistant surfaces where the assistant had to earn its place: television recommendations, Android Auto prompts, and partner headphone setup.
Visual support
Supporting media for the Android TV recommendation and endorsement context.
Context
Google was my first Silicon Valley product design role, and I joined through the Google Assistant / Google Home ecosystem. The work moved across Android TV, Android Auto, and Bose headphone partnership contexts in a little over a year.
Challenge
The challenge was designing Assistant behavior for surfaces Assistant did not fully own. On TV, recommendations needed transparency. In the car, responses needed to be shorter and lower-attention. With Bose, Assistant had to fit into a partner setup flow while still feeling like a Google experience.
What I shaped
The strongest throughline was designing assistant behavior for constrained or shared contexts. On Android TV, that meant recommendations and endorsement patterns that explained why content was being suggested. In the car, it meant shorter prompts and answers that respected driver attention. With Bose, it meant setup and partner alignment for Assistant on headphones.
- Designed assistant recommendation and endorsement concepts for Android TV.
- Worked through hands-free prompt education and shorter response patterns for Android Auto.
- Supported setup, account authorization, and partner experience alignment for Bose headphones.
Outcome
This work gave me the assistant, partnership, and hands-free interaction foundation that later became directly useful at Meta.
Google Assistant response shown as an overlay during an active viewing session.
Endorsements explain why a recommendation was issued by Google Assistant, adding a personable layer of transparent intelligence.
Testing Assistant row templates within Android TV.
Assistant row with content filled in and sorted by relevance to the user.
Back when redlining was a thing, lol. I did a lot of these for Google.
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