Margaret Gould Stewart

Margaret Gould Stewart is a product design leader who has led design teams for six of the ten most visited websites in the world, including Facebook, YouTube and Google. At Facebook she was Director of Product Design and later Vice President of Product Design. Before that she was Director of User Experience at YouTube and managed Google’s Search and Consumer Products user experience team. She studied at New York University’s Interactive Telecommunications Program and has served as a trustee of the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum.

In How giant websites design for you (and a billion others, too), a TED talk from 2014, Margaret Gould Stewart looks at what it means to design at very large scale, where a small change reaches enormous numbers of people. The talk touches on design principles and the role of data in design decisions.