Designing with dynamic color is easier than ever. →
The Material 3 Design Kit for
@Figma
has you covered with new Variables for color, typography, and state layers.
#GoogleIO
starts next week! Get ready for the fully virtual (and free!) conference with our handy guide to all things design.
Find the talks, announcements, AMAs, and meetups you won’t want to miss. 🎥 →
In the early days of Material You, we worked on this surface effect. Early testers thought their screens were broken, but to us that was progress. Then we had this button prototype that squashed out when you touched it. It wasn’t minimal mechanical or modern. It had spirit.
🥁🥁🥁… Best of Google Design 2020 is officially here! This year’s featured projects, largely completed remotely, exemplify resilience & flexibility. Give a round of 👏👏👏 to our colleagues & explore our annual yearbook of brilliant works →
#BestofGD
📣 Quickly make & share your own data-viz gifs with
@Google
's newly updated Data Gif Maker—featuring a simpler interface, new templates & zippier gif creation:
Discover the UI wizardry behind
@googlephotos
's gallery grid → Including the tricks and techniques that make the images scrubbable, justified & fast-loading
Introducing Centered: a new video series on human-centered design. Subscribe to follow
@YasmineEvjen
around the world, as she explores the intersection of design, product, and people. 👉
Onboarding is an un-skippable part of the redesigned
#GoogleHome
app → Learn how
@Google
designers used motion & color to direct attention and delightfully guide users through device-setup:
Can't get enough of the new
#GoogleChrome
redesign? Check out this interview with lead designer
@alexainslie
to learn how the changes make browsing even better →
We’ve been experimenting with
@Figma
’s new generative AI features (just demo’d at
#Config2024
) 👀
The results? A range of product screens that offer a solid starting point. Check out a couple of our generated designs ↓
UX design isn't just about functionality, it's about creating a connection with the user. Pro tip: Tie a specific emotion to the product experience for a memorable user experience.
#GrowWithGoogle
📣 Hot off the press! Google Design's Best of 2019 is here. For our annual yearbook of 🔥 work, we've rounded up over 20 Google projects that exemplify brilliant human-centered design. See who made the list →
Interested in a UX internship at
@Google
? → From prepping your design portfolio to nailing your interview, get tips on applying from a manager and UX intern
Motion design doesn't have to be hard! → From natural easing to masks & containers, learn all about animating navigation transitions from
@Google
motion designer
@jonasnaimark
:
"We champion 'thoughtful design'—thinking about how something feels, not just how it looks."
Ivy Ross gives
@SurfaceMag
a behind-the-scenes look at how
@Google
designers create new products →
We invited
@someformstudio
(
@hellowinck
,
@helgekiehl
and team) to re-interpret
#MaterialDesign
. They created a series of artworks inspired by its shape language, colors and functionality. This set explores the adaptiveness of Material's shapes and forms' in more physical ways 😍
🎉🎂 HBD,
@googlemaps
! For its 15th birthday, Google Maps introduced a shiny new 📍 icon — the latest iteration in 20+ designs that came before. See its evolution from 2005 to today:
#GoogleMaps15
Meet
#MaterialDesign
's dark side 👉 Explore the brand new dark theme guidance & dive into the details of surface overlays, UI layouts & color considerations:
#io19
How many hours do designers work? What's the average salary? Who's happiest?
Our friends
@AIGAeyeondesign
surveyed over 9,000 designers on the state of the industry, & the results are in →
.
@Google
sign-in screens are getting a
#MaterialDesign
refresh this week → Learn why that outlined text field was chosen over more than 140 other styles:
Calling all design students! ✏️ We need summer interns for visual design, motion design, and interaction design roles at
@Google
. All positions paid. Applications now open →
“We’ve had to rethink all the micro-interactions that happen between riders and human drivers.”
Ride along with
@iamryanpowell
of
@Waymo
as he unpacks the research, UX & nitty-gritty work that goes into designing driverless 🚗s we can trust →
#SXSW19
Japanese web fonts will load faster than ever!
@GoogleFonts
just added 6 new kanji fonts using their ⚡️⚡️⚡️ fast delivery system → Check ‘em out in the catalog:
"Designers are expected to create not just an app or a tool but ecosystems of intelligent multi-surface apps..." → Hear from
@Google
UX Design Director
@sokhoury
on designing for the future of work
"You might not always notice, but Material Design is constantly evolving based on research."
Read about how two user studies influenced
@materialdesign
's revamp of its text fields
🚗“When you don't have a human driver, you have to establish trust between the technology and the passenger.” Hear Waymo’s UX Lead
@iamryanpowell
discuss the art of designing UIs for self-driving cars — on the latest
#GoogleMethod
podcast:
Learn how
@Google
Creative Lab built Move Mirror—a new AI experiment that matches your webcam w/ hundreds of photographs, frame-by-frame:
Try it out for yourself at
Check out
@materialdesign
's dark theme in action, starting with
@googlephotos
→ And find out why the Photos background is dark gray instead of pure black:
Get a masterclass on the UX of
@GoogleMaps
→ from map theory & Mercator projection to the innovation of tiles, zoom levels, and an experimental animation technique
We're adding open source icons to Google Fonts, starting with Material Icons! Read all about it on the Material blog:
Oh and yes, we have a new logo too! Thanks for asking 😀
👋 We’re looking for a visual designer to come work with us on content creation and publishing for the next few months!
Email design
@google
.com with the subject line “Visual Designer” & your resume (must be based in NY or CA). 📄💙
“Shape is an undeniable aspect of every interface.” 🔺🔵◼️ Get a masterclass on systematizing your shape for buttons, cards, text fields & more from
@Google
interaction designer
@scoobyfoo
How do you design a great
#AR
experience? 1) Test your assumptions 2) Make it useful 3) Bring delight ✨ Get a behind-the-scenes look at how we created
@Android
’s immersive scavenger hunt for
#AndroidMWC
→
Building a design system? We want to hear from you! → Take part in our Design Systems Survey & help shed light on the current state of the design systems community: