Will Dzierson

Product, design & engineering. Product and design leader with 25+ years of experience. A hands-on builder working across AI, healthcare, and human-centered systems.

I conceive, design, build, and ship. 25+ years connecting what’s possible with what people actually need.

About

I sit at the intersection of product, design and engineering — I love to conceive, to design, and to build.

At Google, I led design on mobile experiences that reshaped how millions of users interact with information on their phones. Since then I've shipped software for healthcare, AI, and consumer products at Salesforce, Included Health, Dexterity Robotics, and a dozen others.

I'm drawn to the hard problems: building AI interfaces that feel intuitive, designing systems that scale, and bridging the gap between what's technically possible and what's genuinely useful.

The most useful place to work is often between disciplines. I connect product strategy, research, design, and engineering—then stay with the work through implementation. Today, I lead Product & Design at InsideTracker. I still build.

Specializations

  • Product leadership and building design and research teams
  • Product strategy
  • UX research and interaction design
  • Design engineering and TypeScript prototyping
  • AI products: RAG, conversational, voice, multimodal, and agentic interfaces
  • Healthcare and digital health
  • Mobile design
  • Founding and 0-to-1 products

How I work

Product leadership: Lead through the work.

At Grand Rounds, my work progressed from lead and principal design roles to Design Director, growing and coaching the Design & Research teams. My current VP role continues that player-coach approach. (Team development · Product direction · Cross-functional delivery)

Design & engineering: Make the decisions testable.

At Included Health, I built conversational prototypes and worked with clinical, product, and engineering partners. A comparative study of conventional, chat, and voice interfaces informed subsequent AI interaction patterns. Explore the multimodal work

Founding: Own the problem and the product.

At Noodle, I co-founded the company, helped raise angel funding, led design, and co-led engineering with contract engineers. The company dissolved; the experience remains part of how I evaluate product bets and execution. Explore Noodle

Experience

  • InsideTracker — VP, Product & Design (2026—). Leading product strategy and design for a preventative-health platform, translating biomarkers and scientific insight into useful guidance.
  • KRING — Head of Product & UX (2025–26). Product vision, UX strategy, and design across pre-seed ventures in health, sustainability, and energy.
  • Included Health — Staff Design Technologist, AI (2024–25). Built and evaluated voice, real-time video, and multimodal AI prototypes. Coached product and design teams in AI-enabled workflows.
  • Noodle AI — Co-founder (2023–25). Raised angel funding, assembled a team, and designed and co-built a personal medical-history product. The company has since dissolved.
  • Obvious Ventures — Designer in Residence (2018–19). Advised founders on product strategy, research, design hiring, and team development. Led UX for DarwinAI’s explainability product.
  • Grand Rounds — Lead → Principal → Design Director (2014–18). Built and led the Product Design and Research function across physician tools, consumer health experiences, and internal care platforms.
  • Gigwalk — Head of Design (2012–14). Directed product design, brand, research, and design systems for a distributed mobile-workforce platform.
  • Salesforce — Senior Experience Designer, Mobile (2011–12). Led a mobile application redesign and explored multimodal voice interaction with an advanced-concepts team.
  • Google — Mobile User Interface Designer (2007–10). Designed early touch interfaces across Search, Local, Calendar, and other products. Led ethnographic research in Beijing and Chongqing.
  • Yahoo! — Interaction Designer, Mobile (2005–07). Designed the Mobile Portal and experiences spanning Messenger, Local, oneSearch, and Photos.
  • Independent & studio work — Design, technology & interactive media (Earlier). Interactive work for Smithsonian, Lincoln Center, Dr. Seuss, IBM, Bose, Caterpillar, PepsiCo, John Hancock, Lockheed Martin, SoftBank Japan, and Harvard Medical School.

Alongside these roles: independent product design, engineering, and advisory work since 2019. Experience drawn from Will’s executive résumé.

Selected work

  • Communicable Disease Dashboard (Public Health) — The Public Health Company, 2025. See the risk. Know where to act. Turning complex disease signals into a clear operational picture for global enterprises.
  • Google Beijing: Project Backpack (校园 背包客) — Google, 2007. A microethnography with strategic imperative. Three months of field research, team mentorship, and product exploration with Google Beijing.
  • Human Knowledge Preservation Initiative — Project Ariadne (The Ariadne Foundation), 2025. Inspiration from the distant past to inform the distant future. An exploration of textiles, materials science, and the preservation of human knowledge.
  • AI Healthcare Companion — Noodle AI (Co-founder), 2023. An AI companion for complex care. Co-founded and co-built a platform that brought scattered health records into a patient’s own conversational workspace.
  • Smithsonian Guide Device (SiGuide) — The Smithsonian Institution, 2005. A location-aware guide for the Smithsonian. A location-aware guide, designed and developed for Smithsonian visitors.
  • Agentic OS — Confidential Client, 2025. A browser-based OS built with AI. From the ground up. A working exploration of persistent agents, shared memory, and natural-language interaction.

All work (22 case studies)

  • Gisted — Vibrant Labworks (Founder), 2026. Don't just send a link. Send the gist. Gisted turns links, videos, documents, and ideas into pages people actually open and respond to.
  • Smart, in the moment saving — Stash (Founder & Developer), 2026. Stash (gostash.it) is a personal digital catchall that automatically enriches URLs, PDFs, images, Reels/Tiktoks, screenshots, videos, voice memos, markdown and more.
  • Agentic OS — Confidential Client, 2025. AgenticOS was an early experiment in AI-native productivity — a browser-based OS-like environment where professionals could build and run agentic, always-on applications without requiring full control of a physical…
  • AI Healthcare Companion — Noodle AI (Co-founder), 2023. Founded in 2023, Noodle started as a RAG-based note-taking app and evolved into something more ambitious: a platform designed to give patients real ownership of their health information.
  • Smithsonian Guide Device (SiGuide) — The Smithsonian Institution, 2005. SiGuide is a location-aware, handheld museum guide created for several of the museums at the Smithsonian. It combines audio, video, and rich media to support self-guided exploration of the collection.
  • Human Knowledge Preservation Initiative — Project Ariadne (The Ariadne Foundation), 2025. Project Ariadne merges ancient Indigenous weaving techniques with advanced materials science to create an innovative system for long-term knowledge preservation.
  • Multimodal AI Transformation — Included Health, 2025. At Included Health, I designed and prototyped a number of AI-based experiences to explore how natural language interfaces could streamline patient intake, streamline physician workflow, reduce documentation time, and…
  • Dash AI Browser (MacOS app) — Self-started, 2025. Started in 2025 as a self-directed research project, Dash began with a straightforward question: what would a browser actually look like if AI were native to it — not bolted on as a sidebar, but woven into how the page…
  • GenSynth ML Explainability Tool — Darwin AI, 2019. DarwinAI’s GenSynth platform was built to address the deep learning “black box” problem by making convolutional neural networks more transparent and more efficient.
  • Expert Physician Care Portal — Grand Rounds (Now Included Health), 2025. Grand Rounds (now Included Health) was built on a compelling but operationally demanding premise: connect patients facing serious diagnoses with the country's top medical specialists for expert second opinions.
  • AI Clinical Care Knowledge Tool — Included Health, 2025. Included Health has the unique challenge of having millions of members to cater to across a number of offerings including direct line of site care (primary care), longitudinal health, healthcare navigation, billing…
  • Google Beijing: Project Backpack (校园 背包客) — Google, 2007. In 2010, I was asked to head to Beijing for an extended, three-month project with two distinct aims: supplement and mentor the relatively junior Google Beijing design team, and propose a product initiative that might…
  • Google Mobile Search & Apps — Google, 2010. At Google, I led design on the Mobile Search team during one of the most significant platform shifts in the company's history — the move from desktop to touch-based mobile interfaces.
  • Legendary Hollywood Photographer Portfolio — B/H, 2022. Dr. Bruno Bernard, or “Bernard of Hollywood,” was the most sought-after photographer of Hollywood’s Golden Era. He has been coined the “King of Glamour” and the Rembrandt of Photography.
  • Social Media Profile Aggregator — ThisIsMe, 2010. This is me was a social media profile aggregator, meant to allow high-profile individuals with multiple social media presences across the web to aggregate them in one place (and a single URL).
  • Visual Storytelling Assistant — Storyblocks AI, 2023. The potential for AI to assist with the “blank page problem” writers often encounter is an interesting proposition.
  • Open Sourced Browser-based OS — Self-Started, 2026. Trying building more in public this year. First up: a React library for building macOS-style windowed desktop environments in the browser.
  • Communicable Disease Dashboard (Public Health) — The Public Health Company, 2025. The Public Health Company was built around a clear and urgent problem: global enterprises — Fortune 50 companies, hospitals, hotel chains, manufacturers — have almost no visibility into communicable disease risk at the…
  • Optum Store — Optum, 2022. At Optum, I partnered with the design and product teams to refine the homepage experience, ensuring it better aligned with user needs and business goals.
  • Stickerbooth (Photoboth App with Stickers) — Self started, 2011. I built an app back in 2011 that allowed people to put stickers on their pictures. It was a fun little thing.
  • Gigwalk Consumer and Admin Apps — Gigwalk, 2013. Gigwalk is a mobile app platform that connects businesses with on-demand workers, or "Gigwalkers," to complete various tasks in a specific location.
  • Crescendo — Crescendo, 2022. Improving medical research and enabling better health outcomes Crescendo was founded by Sam Roosz and Michael Glassman to enable better health outcomes for patients, while protecting the interests of research…

Writing

I’m interested in how people understand, govern, and work with intelligent systems—and in bringing a builder’s perspective to teaching and research.

Published contributor, Mobile Persuasion — Stanford Persuasive Technology Lab. Portfolio featured by Lovable.

Selected teams and clients

Google, Included Health, SoftBank, Salesforce, Yahoo!, Smithsonian, Optum, IBM, Bose, Caterpillar, Obvious Ventures, Lincoln Center, Lockheed Martin, Dr. Seuss, InsideTracker.

Contact

will@dzierson.com · Saratoga Springs, New York · LinkedIn · Medium