The Goal Behind the Goal
Compassion comes first for the Google Fitbit UX team
Sustainability isn’t a Space to Compete
Working together to make collective progress
Designers Talking
Insights from Google’s fifth annual VisD Summit
Artistic Intelligence
How creatives translate complex concepts into visual languages
Sounds Good
Designers should be listening to — and learning from — how music is made
Making Material You
A short film series exploring how Google imagines an adaptive, personal, and expressive future for design
Ambient Music Plays
A series of transcripts transforming four short films into poetic texts
Perspectives
Predictably Smart
Machine learning works best when users don’t have to think twice
15 Interviews to Google
Lessons from a UX Researcher’s quest to land her dream job
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Gifs, memes, and emoji are a lingua franca—what do they say about our need to be heard?
Typography
Neon, Prism, Tilt
Go way beyond Italic with new font axes
Glacial Melt
Raising climate change awareness through dynamic type
The Dancing Font from Outer Space
The animated variable font Kablammo has landed on planet Earth
UX
Geek Chic
UX insights on designing simple, accessible interfaces for teaching computers
Designing for Global Accessibility, Part I
Nithya Sambasivan and Astrid Weber suggest checking assumptions about users
Refreshing Chrome
The Chrome team has been updating the browser’s design ever since it launched in 2008
Podcasts
Design Notes, Episode 6
Designer and professor Molly Wright Steenson on the early foundations of AI
Method: Episode 16
Google illustrators chat about everything from onboarding animations to random doodles
SPAN x Design Notes
A special podcast series recorded live at SPAN Helsinki
Guides
Simulating Intelligence
Techniques for prototyping machine learning systems across products
It’s a Marathon
Best practices for planning design sprints
How to Choose a Web Font
Take the mystery out of font selection with our step-by-step guide
