Steve Haroz
Senior Quantitative User Experience Researcher
United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSteve Haroz is a Senior Quantitative User Experience Researcher with 12 years of cross-disciplinary experience applying perception, cognition, and behavioral methods to design and evaluate visual interfaces. At Google he translates complex statistical findings into clear, executive-ready recommendations that shape multi-billion-dollar product strategies, and he has developed reporting techniques adopted across quantitative UX teams. His background spans academic research at Inria and Northwestern, plus hands-on UX and prototyping work at studios like Weta Digital and NVIDIA, giving him rare fluency from low-level perceptual science to production engineering. Steve is skilled in R/tidyverse, D3.js, WebGL/OpenGL and front-end polish—he even contributed UX improvements to the widely used rmarkdown project by refining code-folding behavior and styles. He advocates for open, replicable science and designs experiments and visualizations that prioritize generalizable answers from messy real-world data.
12 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
PhD, Applications of Perception to InfoVis, PhD, Applications of Perception to InfoVis at University of California, DavisB.S., Computer Science, B.S., Computer Science at Clemson UniversityUniversity of California, Berkeley
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Github Skills (13)
css10
javascript10
front-end-development10
rmarkdown9
markdown-it8
markdown8
html7
transform6
rotation6
wpf6
ggplot6
r6
bookdown6
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
rstudio/rmarkdown
Sep 2016 - Apr 2021
Dynamic Documents for R
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 2 PRs, 6 comments in 4 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Steve primarily focused on improving the code folding functionality within the R Markdown documentation framework. Their work included modifying the `codefolding.js` file, adding and removing CSS styles, and adjusting button behaviors to enhance the user experience. They addressed inconsistencies in the button's interactions and refined the visual presentation of the code-folding elements, enhancing user navigation. This included adding and updating CSS for the button styles.
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steveharoz/Vis-Acceptance-Rates
May 2015 - Jun 2021
Contributions:33 commits, 7 PRs, 31 pushes in 6 years 1 month
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