Description: The professional website for author / voice user interface designer Cathy Pearl.
Photo by: Bobby Spero Cathy Pearl is a design manager for Google Assistant at Google and the author of the O’Reilly book Designing Voice User Interfaces .
Photo by Kimberly White
She's been designing and creating Voice User Interfaces (VUIs) for over 20 years and is passionate about helping everyone make the best conversational experiences possible. Previously, Cathy was VP of User Experience at Sensely, whose virtual nurse avatar helps people stay healthy. She has worked on everything from programming NASA helicopter pilot simulators to designing a conversational iPad app in which Esquire magazine's style columnist tells users what they should wear on a first date.