Summary
Alex Norton is a product manager at Google DeepMind with 11 years of experience shaping people-centered AI products that blend HCI, personalization, adaptivity, and reasoning. He co-founded Google’s People + AI Guidebook and has moved between research and product roles to translate emerging AI research into responsible, real-world experiences—most recently leading Project Astra and Gemini personalization work. Previously he unified Google Travel’s product architecture and design system to power AI-driven trip planning, and his data visualizations have appeared at TED, Tribeca, and in major publications and journals. Trained in interaction design with cross-registration at MIT, he combines rigorous design, neuroscience-informed thinking, and storytelling—skills honed from VR and scientific visualization projects to wedding photography—into pragmatic product leadership.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Cross-registration Neuroscience Architecture Computer Science, Cross-registration Neuroscience Architecture Computer Science at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Bachelor’s Degree Interaction Design Graphic Design, Bachelor’s Degree Interaction Design Graphic Design at Massachusetts College of Art and Design
English