Kevin Fox (designer)

Kevin Fox
Occupation	User experience designer
Website	kfury.com

Kevin Fox is the user experience designer who created the interface for Gmail 1.0, ^[1] Google Calendar, ^[2] Google Reader, ^[3] and Friendfeed. ^[4]

Fox was senior user experience design lead at Google from 2003 until 2008, when he left the company. ^{[5] [6]}

He was a co-founder of the Internet of Things startup Electric Imp in 2012. ^{[7] [8]} The startup was acquired by Twilio in 2020. ^[9] Since 2015 he has been the chief experience officer at Evan Prodromou's fuzzy.io. ^[10]

References

1. McCracken, Harry (2014-04-01). "How Gmail Happened: The Inside Story of Its Launch 10 Years Ago". TIME. Retrieved 2025-03-23.
2. Su, Di (2014-08-23). Library Instruction Design: Learning from Google and Apple. Elsevier. p. 44. ISBN   978-1-78063-407-4.
3. Schwartz, Barry (4 January 2008). "Google's User Experience Expert, Kevin Fox, Joins New Start-up Company". searchengineland.com. Retrieved 2014-02-02.
4. Buchheit, Paul. "Another new Friendfeeder!". FriendFeed Blog. Retrieved 2014-02-02.
5. "Kevin Fox Leaves Google". blogoscoped.com. Retrieved 2025-03-23.
6. Savov, Vlad (2014-02-12). "Gmail's original designer explains why Contacts stink". The Verge. Retrieved 2025-03-23.
7. Gannes, Liz. "iPhone Engineer and Gmail Designer Team Up on Electric Imp to Connect Devices". AllThingsD. Retrieved 2014-02-02.
8. Lawler, Ryan (2012-05-16). "Electric Imp Raises $7.9M From Redpoint & Lowercase Capital To Power The Internet of Things". TechCrunch. Retrieved 2025-03-23.
9. Lardinois, Frederic (2020-07-09). "Twilio acquires Electric Imp to bolster its growing IoT business". TechCrunch. Retrieved 2025-03-23.
10. "Designer of Gmail User Interface Joins Montreal's Fuzzy.io". Techvibes. 11 August 2015. Retrieved 2017-02-25.

External links

• Kevin Fox's twitter account, @kfury