Dylan Fox
Inclusive Design Operations Manager
Oakland, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDylan Fox is an inclusive design leader and researcher with nine years of experience crafting accessible experiences across web, mobile, and immersive XR platforms. Currently Inclusive Design Operations Manager at Yahoo and formerly Head of Community and Outreach at XR Access, he bridges user needs, policy, and product teams to embed accessibility into emerging technologies like AR and VR. His work includes UC Berkeley research on AR-supported obstacle avoidance for people with visual impairments and prototyping AR systems in partnership with Cornell Tech. Dylan combines hands-on UX and front-end design experience from roles at MLB Advanced Media and Siemens with strategic operations, grant writing, and coalition-building for standards and policy. He’s known for translating dense academic literature into practical best practices—having synthesized over 300 papers to guide AR accessibility investments—and for piloting K–12 accessibility education programs. Based in Oakland, he brings a rare mix of technical design craft, community advocacy, and systems-level thinking to make XR more usable and equitable.
8 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Mechanical & Cognitive Engineering, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Mechanical & Cognitive Engineering at University of California, BerkeleyMasters of Information Management and Systems, UX Design, Virtual Reality, and Digital Collaboration, Masters of Information Management and Systems, UX Design, Virtual Reality, and Digital Collaboration at UC Berkeley School of Information
Spanish
Github Skills (23)
specification9
api-specification9
azure8
api8
yelp8
aframe7
arcore7
microsoft-azure7
traceability7
virtual-reality7
webvr7
openxr7
frame6
multi-user6
webrtc6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
eacooper/AROA-UserStudy-Public
Jan 2023 - Feb 2023
Contributions:4 commits, 4 pushes in 1 month
dylan-fox/AROA-Visual-Cues
Feb 2021 - Nov 2022
Visual cues experimentation for Augmented Reality Obstacle Avoidance
Contributions:4 PRs, 53 pushes, 4 branches in 1 year 8 months
experimentationrealityaugmentedaugmented-realityobstacle-avoidance
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