Geoff Barnes
Head Of Design at Tavus
Greater Pittsburgh Region United States
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Top SchoolGeoff Barnes is a UX and design leader with 13 years of experience shaping conversational and multimodal GenAI products at scale, most recently as Head of Design at Tavus after leading agentic UX work for Gemini and Google Assistant. He specializes in designing for probabilistic outputs and integrating generative AI into existing products, with a track record of creating experiences that reach hundreds of millions to over a billion users. A meticulous communicator and devoted mentor, Geoff excels at guiding multidisciplinary teams through intensely disruptive, competitive change. His background in fine arts and painting (MFA, BFA) informs a distinct visual and human-centered sensibility that surfaces in elegant, usable conversational systems.
12 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
MFA, Painting, MFA, Painting at University of OregonBFA, Painting, Graphic Design, Performance Art, BFA, Painting, Graphic Design, Performance Art at School of the Art Institute of ChicagoCistercian Preparatory School
Github Skills (3)
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Github contributions (1)
elliance/metaframe
May 2013 - Dec 2013
Contributions:32 commits in 6 months
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