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Every man-made item was designed by someone. Design rules our lives and influences our daily decisions. If done correctly, we don’t even notice. This emotional explanation of design’s influence on our lives has been told time and time again. Marc Hemeon has a different way of putting it.

“You’re influencing my world, so don’t make it suck.”

Hemeon speaks through a smile, disarming audiences by surrounding sound insight with a healthy amount of self-deprecation. He presents himself with so much humility, you wouldn’t guess the number of worlds he’s influenced with his own design.

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Over the last decade, he’s split time between leading design for well-established companies like Oakley and Digg, while founding startups like Tee Fury and Design by Humans.

The serial entrepreneur was onto his third venture when he co-founded fflick, a website that gathered Twitter data to review movies. The company was created by Hemeon and other former Digg employees, and was acquired by Google a few months after launch.

Since the 2011 acquisition, Hemeon has influenced some of Google’s largest projects to date and quickly became a sought-after designer. He led YouTube’s 2012 sitewide redesign, has worked on design for Chromecast, Google Analytics and Google X’s self-driving car project, and just last month, Google Ventures named him entrepreneur in residence.

In August, Hemeon announced he was working on a new project with Digg co-founder and Google Ventures partner Kevin Rose. The company, called North Technologies, is shrouded in mystery, but with Hemeon and Rose at the helm, the tech community will be watching closely.

Marc Hemeon is coming to Big KC in October. Join us for some of Marc’s real talk, and find out more on the event at bigkansascity.co.

Help us welcome him on Twitter @hemeon.