Hello, world. My name is Burton Rast — assumed name, ‘mister burton’ — and I'm a UX Design Lead at Google in Mountain View, California.

At Google, I bring a human-centered lens to the design of products and experiences enabled by the Google Assistant.

As a designer crafting solutions belied by a foundational layer of machine learning, I believe we've a responsibility — both as individuals, and as an industry — to create systems that serve human needs in an equitable manner; those that honor privacy as a fundamental human right.

And, as with traditional UX design methodologies, I work with multidisciplinary teams to affect this effort through a comprehensive process that identifies the needs of the people for whom we are designing through observation and research; a process wherein design decisions are validated through iterative prototyping and testing.

I also speak at design conferences and industry events, both home and abroad, in service of crafting and voicing my point of view, as well as Google's, out in the world.

Perhaps worth noting: this site is also reachable via the emoji domain: 🤘.ws, is also viewable at misterburton.com, if emoji domains aren't your thing. 😉

Read my story, or check out some of my work.