My name is Jane Friedhoff. I'm a rapid prototyper, creative technologist, and occasional indie game developer.
In every field I work in, I push the affordances of technology to create new and delightful user experiences--and, for cutting edge tech, to unlock the experiences that could have never existed without it. I work on both the practical and theoretical ends of this: everything from delivering production-quality code to publishing peer-reviewed academic papers.
From 2013 to 2016 I worked at The New York Times R&D Lab. After that, I worked at The Office For Creative Research, a hybrid research group that worked at the intersection of technology, culture and education, until its closure in 2017. From 2017 to 2019, I worked as a creative technologist for the Google Creative Lab, where I experimented with cutting-edge technology to explore the artistic potentials of new tools and research. During this time, I was also a Human-In-Residence/Postdoctoral Fellow at New York University's ITP.
I am currently a Senior UX Engineer at Google Research.
Nowadays, my focus is on LM-/FM-powered products, such as this one.I am frequently available for talks and commissions. Send me an email: jane.friedhoff@gmail.com.
You can see my full CV here. I also write occasionally about games and tech here.