Grant Anderson

New York, NY

Product Design at Google. Previously @socratic, @live, @foursquare and @Salesforce. Indie fanboy. Occasional freelancer.

ios, mobile, ui, android, ux, product design, prototyping, user research, design leadership

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Foursquare Venue Page Venue page design for Foursquare 8.0
Onboarding Explorations Some of the initial exploration work that went into making the Foursquare 8.0 onboarding experience. The "taste game" in particular was iterated upon many times before we felt we had something that captured both the depth and breadth of the overall tastes system.
All the tastes Final design directions for adding tastes in Foursquare 8.0 - the tastes game located in onboarding, and continued personalization living within the app. Working on the tastes game was incredibly fun.
Discovery Exploration As with any project, there's lots of throwaway work - at the beginning of Foursquare 8.0, one area that received lots of exploration was the search & discovery experience. Here are just a few of paths the homepage could have taken.
Salesforce1 - Today view Exploration/evolution of a "Today" concept for Salesforce1, this screen was intended to be a high-level overview of your calendar for the day, surfacing relevant information about each meeting. Working on the beginning of 2013 at Salesforce.
Sales Managr - Dashboard View Another screen for Sales Managr, tracking metrics around team performance.
Live Excited to finally share what I worked on from April 2015 to January 2017 - Live! A living map of all the events and places to go in your city, Live takes on the sizable challenge of simultaneously communicating breadth and depth. I'll be posting more shots in the days to come, but damn it feels good to finally share some new work. And check out the app!
Sales Managr Concept around an app for managing sales teams.
Oldschool Profile One last Foursquare shot I never got around to pushing, the old iOS7 Profile, one of the first things I worked on at the company. I still enjoy the color palette we ended up using, although I could never decide between the final version on the left or the alternate on the right.
Top Picks I lied, one last foursquare shot. Top picks was just a concept when I worked on it (you can now see it in the app), but I always enjoyed these original, highly photographic explorations. The idea has remained the same - explicit feedback for users as to why they're receiving these recommendations.
Foursquare iPad Travel and Map results Last couple shots of iPad for Foursquare. Since the primary use case of the iPad app was a more laidback approach to exploring, we wanted to highlight the benefit of using Foursquare abroad, so surfacing travel destinations with popular local dishes and activities quickly became a feature.
Salesforce1 - detail pages Some of the early explorations for how the Salesforce1 contact screens would eventually look. You may notice that a lot of the screens alternate between warm/cold grey tones, which was one of the visual design nitpicks we worked on at this stage. Worked on the beginning of 2013 at Salesforce.
Foursquare for iPad Just getting around to posting one of the last pieces I worked on at Foursquare - the iPad app. The focus of finally releasing on the iPad revolved mainly around search and explore - while the phone use case is much more "on the go", iPad is designing purely for planning. This first screen is the main home page, giving users large, tabloid-like recommendations along with a new destination picke...
People People grid for app refresh updates
Sales Managr 3 Wrapping up details on Sales Managr home screen/feed.
Home Design evolution of Home for Salesforce1. One of the first explorations, the home screen was initially conceptualized as a dashboard for your daily activities. Worked on the beginning of 2013 at Salesforce.
Foursquare iPad Homescreen to Search Another shot of the Foursquare iPad app, scrolled down from the top of the homescreen. The original thought was as a user scrolls through the curated categories, if they reach the bottom, perhaps it makes sense to cast a larger net of suggestions since none of the previous ones matched their intent. At this point, we effectively dump users into a freeform search, complete with filters and the a...
Salesforce1 - Dashboards Some iterations on home the eventual dashboard detail screens would look in Salesforce1 - a variation of the detail pages. This was worked on the beginning of 2013 at Salesforce.
Live: Saved Lists Coming from Foursquare, a feature that was important to me was the ability to save venues and events to a list for future reference, being able to access it at anytime (and view on the map), and share amongst others. Since Live is built around the map, that creates a lot of interesting use cases and interaction patterns. In a map that's already saturated with information, how do we add an extr...
Live: Browselist The browselist was meant to provide the ease of navigating a map, while getting a deeper peek into venue info, all at the same time in a mobile format. Lots of thought was put into the back and forth of these separate interface elements, from the automatic highlighting of a specific venue within the list to turning off auto-fetching more venues to preserve the list ordering. The venues themsel...
Netflix/Facebook Once upon a time, I was given a design exercise that speculated what a combined Facebook and Netflix app would look like. Product aside, I always liked the design direction it took.
Socratic: Groups One of the largest features I've worked on since joining the team has been a focus on group chats for teens. Over the course of a few months we extensively researched how users might want to use such a feature and how we might entice them to do so, conducting over 50 user tests with realistic prototypes built with origami. The result is a flow built almost entirely around user need - one of th...
Files UI Update Continuing to iterate on Files UI - went dark on the preview area, trying to make things balance out.

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