Karen NG is the instructor of the third course of the Google UX Design Certificate, “Build Wireframes and Low-Fidelity Prototypes.” At the time of recording the course, Karen was a senior interaction designer at Google, but now she is a Staff Designer, Manager, and Accessibility Lead at Google.
Before becoming a designer, Karen worked in many other fields including event planning, marketing, and as a paralegal. “I discovered interaction design while I was taking an information design class,” she explains. “We were asked to make an infographic that’s interactive, and I did a search online trying to figure out what that meant and somehow stumbled across interaction design.”
Karen describes herself as a “detailed and organized” person who likes to “stay on top of the different tasks that I have to handle in order to move the project forward.”
Karen holds a Bachelor’s degree in Economics and East Asian Studies from New York University, and a Master’s degree in Interaction Design from the School of Visual Arts in New York City. (1)