The top developer and UX designer for Google, Chris Messina, has made it known that he has stepped down from his post at the Mountain View-based company in order to take up a new roll at the digital collectibles platform NeonMob. The former developer of Google revealed the news through a blog post in which he also shared his future plans. One of his goals was to build the service and community for NeonMob, which according to Messina will prove “an important, new platform for digital creatives and art enthusiasts.”
Messina has worked at Google for over 3.5 years before he finally decided to part ways with the company. During this period Chris was responsible for launching Google’s developer resource website, producing new designs of Google +1 buttons as well as brand badges and redesigning Google Profile.
However, this was not all that made Messina what he is today, as the ex-developer of Google became more famous when he inventing the famous hashtag, which is now commonly used on all social networking websites like Google+, Twitter and Facebook. Besides this Messina’s accomplishments also includes his devotion towards open standards and open source.
Here is how Messina has described his time period at Google and future plans regarding the new startup he joined recently:
“I joined Google 1300 days ago. Yesterday was my last day. As someone who likes to think of himself as living in the future, I’ve known that this day would someday come. Now that it has, I feel optimistic about what’s next, but also bittersweet about what I’m leaving behind: great friends, passionate colleagues, and interesting individuals who’ve taught me a lot about myself and about the Great Big World.
Next week I’ll begin work at a 6-person startup based in San Francisco called NeonMob (sign up here!). I’ll be focused on building a community and growing the service, which I believe is building an important, new platform for digital creatives and art enthusiasts.
In my time at Google, I helped create Google Developers (developers.google.com), redesigned the Google Profile, and recently launched new designs for the Google+1 button and brand badges. I also built a lot of bridges between people and teams, and hope that I made a positive impact (in some small way!) on how Google thinks about building social products. I’m super positive about the future of Google+ and Google, and have a great amount of hope in the increasing role that design leadership is playing across the company — and it was time for me to try my hand at something a little smaller and closer to a few dormant passions: art and collecting!”
Source: TNW, Chris MessinaBlog
Photo: Chris MessinaBlog
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