Hi, I’m Elaine Anzaldo, a bay area AI designer 🌁
<aside> 🤗 About me: conversation designer and smart glasses girlie. CxD blogger, mentor, and community builder. Creator of convofolios, the only public resource to discover conversation design portfolios.
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AI Product Designer @ Meta Reality Labs for the past 3 years!!
iF Design - Ray-Ban | Meta Smart Glasses
Biography:
Elaine is a seasoned AI Product Designer and leader in Conversation Design. Currently, as a Senior Product Designer for Ray-Ban Meta, her role lies at the intersection of Voice, AI, and Wearables design. Before Meta, Elaine worked on Voice AI experiences at other tech giants, supporting products such as Siri, customer-self-service voice UIs for travel and hospitality, messaging app chatbots, and more. Elaine is also a design mentor, blogger, community builder, and the creator of Convofolios, the only public resource for discovering conversation design portfolios. As conversational UIs become more prevalent, Elaine’s goal is to generate awareness about conversation design and its many applications in AI design.
To learn more about my professional work, please reach out to me directly on LinkedIn.
(written by Elaine A.)
Jan 2025
2025 List of UX + AI Design Conferences
Dec 2024
Answering your design questions
Oct 2024
How to Find and Become a Conversation Design Mentor
Aug 2024
Growing as a conversation designer
Mar 2024
Not all conversation designers
Jan 2024
UX + AI Design Conferences in 2024
Dec 2023
The Ultimate Conversation Design Course Guide
Nov 2023
Aug 2023
Becoming a senior conversation designer: how to tell when you’ve ✨made✨ it
Jun 2023
Meet the Voice This! Podcast Team
May 2023
How to Get Hired in Conversation Design Part 3
Mar 2023
Confessions of a conversation designer
Nov 2022
Everyday Speech: Examples of TTS out in the wild
Sep 2022
Jun 2022
Level up your conversation design portfolio
Feb 2022
How to Get Hired in Conversation Design Part 2
Reflecting on 1 year as a full-time conversation designer
Jan 2022
2021 was kind to me: a year in review
Think A ‘Bot’ It: Conversational AI, XR, and Fashion
Oct 2021
Hey Facebook, What Can You Do?
Aug 2021
6 months of Conversation Design
Jul 2021
How to Get Hired in Conversation Design Part 1
Jun 2021
5 tips for better multimodal design | Voiceflow
Apr 2021
Hey Spotify, What Can I Ask You?
Feb 2021
My Journey into Conversation Design
Dec 2020
Don’t just do “more”: creating actionable goals for 2021
Nov 2020
Working contract in tech: the good, bad, and the perks
(featuring Elaine A.)
Nov 2024
Oct 2024
#17 Happy Diwali: CxD community voices, mentors, and tea
#16 Is Conversation Design... Team Edward?
Aug 2024
Apr 2024
Mar 2024
#12 The one where we move slow
Sep 2023
#11 Your conversation design questions, answered
Jul 2023
Bot Jobs | Conversational Chronicles: 20 Questions With... Elaine Anzaldo
Jun 2023
#10 ChatGPT understands, except it doesn't
May 2023
Apr 2023
#8 Changing tides for conversation design
Feb 2023