LinkedIn former executive Joann Wu is moving to Uber as VP of product design starting January 3, where she’ll report to Chief Product Officer Sundeep Jain. Wu spend almost a decade working at LinkedIn as ser experience and product design.
In her recent interview with TechCrunch, she said as a longtime user of both Uber and Uber Eats, the company’s food delivery business unit. “I see Uber as a platform that can make it easy to do both — ‘go’ and ‘get,’ and there’s a lot we can do with design around doing those two things really, really well every day and make people’s lives a little bit easier.”
“Design is the bridge between humans and technology,” she said. “Great experience will transfer users’ intent into action and bring value to their lives.”
While she was at LinkedIn, the platform grew from around 100 million users nearly 800 million.
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