2025 Speakers
Kristie Fisher, Sr. Director of Global User Research, PlayStation Studios
Kristie J. Fisher, PhD, has spent the last 15 years conducting user experience research and building and leading research teams across a variety of product domains, primarily in gaming. She currently leads the global PlayStation Studios User Research team. The mission of her team is to empower PlayStation's Studios to get to great faster by being vision-led and data informed. At Google she worked on Stadia, Gmail, and Ads and was a co-author of Google's People + AI Research Guidebook. Prior to Google she was at Xbox Research, collaborating with game producers and development teams to improve player experience on Xbox, Xbox Kinect, and Windows. A cognitive psychologist by training, her research interests center on gaming, human-computer interaction in the context of AI, and human learning and problem solving more broadly. As a leader she focus on creating a culture of psychological safety and building systems to maximize the impact of research. Kristie is proud to say that she has always had a 100% positive people manager score from her team on every employee sentiment survey.
