Julie Zhuo

Julie Zhuo is a product designer, author and entrepreneur. She studied computer science at Stanford and spent more than a decade at Facebook, rising from an engineering internship to VP of Product Design and helping shape features such as the News Feed, Likes and Reactions, and photo sharing. She is the author of The Making of a Manager (2019), a Wall Street Journal bestseller, is known for her essays on management and design, and co-founded the data and product strategy company Sundial.

In these talks, Julie Zhuo shares how she approaches product design. How a Facebook Designer Thinks looks at the mindset behind designing for a very large social product, and Building with creative confidence, recorded at The Next Web Conference in 2016, covers the confidence designers need to make and ship ideas. The talks touch on designing behaviors, emotional engagement, growth, innovation, lean startup thinking and designing for users.