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Bob Baxley

  • Senior Vice-President of Design & Experience at ThoughtSpot
  • UX Designer, Leader, and Executive
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Bob Baxley is a design executive who lives and works in Silicon Valley. He most recently served as the Senior Vice-President of Design & Experience at ThoughtSpot, a business intelligence and data analytics platform. Prior to ThoughtSpot, Bob was Head of Product Design at Pinterest where he built, led, and managed a multifaceted design team...

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Bob Baxley is a design executive who lives and works in Silicon Valley. He most recently served as the Senior Vice-President of Design & Experience at ThoughtSpot, a business intelligence and data analytics platform. Prior to ThoughtSpot, Bob was Head of Product Design at Pinterest where he built, led, and managed a multifaceted design team responsible for both the consumer and business facing elements of Pinterest.

Starting in 2006, Bob spent over eight years at Apple, where he served in senior leadership roles for Apple’s retail and e-commerce teams. As a Director of Design, Bob hired and led the creative team responsible for a broad variety of applications including the Apple Online Store, the Apple Store app, and the transactional areas of iPhoto and GarageBand.

As Director of Design for Yahoo! Search, Bob built and led the design team that created Yahoo! Answers and designed other search-centric properties. Bob’s career as a designer began at Claris Corporation where he was Lead UI Designer for the initial releases of ClarisWorks and MacProject Pro.

The author of “Making the Web Work”, Bob is also a sought after public speaker sharing his experiences and observations about a range of topics related to design, technology, innovation, and the culture of Silicon Valley.

Bob holds a B.A. in History and a B.S in Radio/Television/Film from the University of Texas at Austin as well as a Master of Liberal Arts from Stanford University.

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Vision, Mission, Strategies, and Objectives. Lessons in Design from Google and Apple
A one hour talk showing how key ideas central to the founding of Google and Apple are manifested in specific design artifacts including their logos, advertisements, and hiring criteria. This talk is particularly meaningful to ...more
A one hour talk showing how key ideas central to the founding of Google and Apple are manifested in specific design artifacts including their logos, advertisements, and hiring criteria. This talk is particularly meaningful to an audience that is trying to understand and appreciate how Design can be a visible expression of a company’s overall purpose and reason for existing. ...less
REAL-TIME FIRESIDE CHAT
In this hour-long conversation, Bob will respond to questions from the moderator and/or audience. As a guest on many podcasts and a regular speaker to design teams around the world, Bob is adept at calling ...more
In this hour-long conversation, Bob will respond to questions from the moderator and/or audience. As a guest on many podcasts and a regular speaker to design teams around the world, Bob is adept at calling forth his broad range of stories, frameworks, and learnings from his 34 year career as a Designer in Silicon Valley. Topics often include: how to collaborate with cross-functional partners; how to explain the impact of Design; the potential impact of AI; and what it was like to present to notable Silicon Valley CEOs like Steve Jobs (Apple), Jeff Weiner (LinkedIn), or Ben Silberman (Pinterest). ...less

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