2019 Material Design Award Winners
Recognizing best-in-class designs from around the community
Each year, our Material Design Awards honor the product teams that bring Material to life. Useful, usable, and beautiful, these best-in-class apps use the design system as a starting point for crafting exemplary interfaces. The winners were selected from hundreds of open nominations, and each of this year’s honorees adapted Material in unique and inspiring ways—from expressive elevation to a novel use of backdrop.We’re pleased to present the class of 2019, a group of apps that creatively employ Material Design across four distinct categories—theming, innovation, experience, and universality. We hope their work is as inspiring to the community as it is to us, and we look forward to seeing how you continue to make Material yours.
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09/26/2019
Add Your Voice to Google’s UX Tools Survey
Designers, tell us: What tools do you swear by? How do you collaborate with teammates? What convinces you to adopt a new process? Google is compiling a state-of-the-industry report on how the design community gets work done, with a focus on the most valuable UX tools. We define “UX tools” as any product or system designers use to create, review, or test new work and prototypes. This could include Sketch, InVision, Framer, UserTesting.com, Material Design, or Dedoose, but we’re also interested in hearing about your collaboration and communication tools, like Slack or Google Docs. It’s anonymous, but the results will be shared with the broader design and product development community, and—we think—help improve the way we all work. The survey takes about 15 minutes and is open until October 14. Take the UX Tools survey.
08/13/2019
Announcing SPAN Brooklyn: October 10, 2019
This year, our annual design conference returns to New York City with SPAN Brooklyn. We’ll gather at 99 Scott—a rehabilitated warehouse-turned-arts space in Bushwick, Brooklyn—for a day-long event uniting design, technology, and art. We’re planning a full schedule of talks, demos, workshops, art installations, and lots more. Over the next few weeks we’ll be announcing our speaker lineup—stay tuned and follow #SPAN19 for the latest. In the meantime, you can explore our related articles, videos, and guides from past SPAN events. SPAN Brooklyn is invite-only, but there’s another way to get your SPAN fix: Enter our giveaway of SPAN Helsinki readers—Volume 4 is chock-full of interviews, art, and essays on everything from AI to waste-free design, and features contributions from Linda Bergroth, Dan Hill, Lidewij Edelkoort, and James Bridle. Simply fill out this form—the first 100 people will get a copy. Good luck!Visit design.google/span2019 and our FAQ for more information.
07/29/2019
Nominations open for 2019 Material Design Awards!
Today we’re announcing our open call for the 2019 Material Design Awards. If you’re a designer using Material Design to build a useful service, execute an ambitious vision, or simply spark delight in a product, we want to see (and celebrate!) what you’ve created.This year we’ll be accepting nominations in four categories: Theming (products that brilliantly exemplify Material Theming guidelines), Innovation (work that creatively expands on Material), Universality (think inclusive and accessible), and Experience (for superb interaction and navigation). We’re keeping an eye out for meaningful experiences across all categories, and platforms. To see the work we’ve honored in the past, look through our MDA archives from 2018, 2017, and 2016.Nominate someone (or yourself) by filling out this entry form by August 24, 2019. Material Design Award winners will be announced on Google Design this fall.
07/01/2019
Google Design on Medium: Personal Journeys
With summer upon us, it’s time to pass along poolside reading recommendations—and nothing beats a good hero’s journey. We’ve got you covered with a series of Medium stories on how designers get where they’re going, starting with one design director’s tale of how growing up with immigrant parents influenced her role as a leader at Google. From there, follow one UX researcher’s surprising path from architectural theory to machine learning, and a UX director’s decade-long epic of mining the human side of technology. Cap it off with a journey that might ring familiar to any designer: The tale of what it’s like to be an intern.
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Explore this month’s featured collection to learn about the research and design methods behind Google’s global products with this collection of articles, best practices, and design methods.

Connectivity, Culture, and Credit
Nine ways designers can be more empathic and effective when creating products for emerging markets
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Survey Methods: Connecting with a Global Audience
Strategies and best practices for conducting UX surveys
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Beyond Desktop Research: The Immersion Trip
Learn to plan, execute, and share insights from the field
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Designing Great Apps for New Internet Users
In this talk from Google I/O 2017, learn best practices for building meaningful products from the designers who think about next billions users every day
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Sketch, Scroll, or Swipe?
How to choose the right prototyping method when field testing your global product
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Global UX Speaker Series
From gender equity to agricultural development, this video series covers a broad range of topics and offers insights from UX teams creating global products
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The Making of YouTube Go
How reimagining an app’s experience led to five key lessons for building international products
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Accessibility Guidance for a Global Audience
Learn how to design inclusive products for emerging economies by accounting for access, relevance, and design in your apps
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Design for Offline
No internet? No problem. Make your product come alive with offline design
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Designing Google Maps for Motorbikes
How getting your hands dirty during the research phase can lead to better, more inclusive products
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Designing for Global Accessibility, Part I
Awareness is everything
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Designing for Global Accessibility, Part II
Context matters
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Designing for Global Accessibility, Part III
Be inclusive by default
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Putting Users at the Heart of a Global Design Sprint
Best practices for collaboration
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