Expressive Captions

After work on Space to Belong, a web experience created to highlight businesses around the world that support the LGBTQ+ community, and their struggles through the pandemic, I led a focused team on taking the captions work we introduced in the project to the next level.


This project became “Expressive Captions” which launched for Android in 2025.




The premise of the work was, what if captions could better emote, and be more expressive of the audio? This would serve the hearing challenged community, but also users in general.

After leading the creative team toward some initial explorations of the idea, and reaching out to cross-functional partners and researchers, I introduced the project to our head of accessibility who championed the project and took it to the finish line.

To support it during this time, I conducted over 100 hours of interviews with type experts, machine learning experts, accessibility experts, and design/UX experts across Google.