The type legend on his new book, a big birthday, and variable fonts.

Create custom text stickers on Android and Pixel phones

The award-winning Anek variable font

Google Design Article

Questrial font provides pan-African Latin support

Google for Education Australia and Google Fonts partnered to make Foundation Fonts for Australian Schools available on Google Workspace, including Google Workspace for Education.

Expanding Lexend to different weights

Google Design Article

Distinct and modern, the Atkinson Hyperlegible typeface aims to deliver both legibility and readability

The beauty and challenges of bridging the old and the new

See our handpicked Google Fonts pairings in use, and start using them now in Figma

An interview with Senior Visual Designer leading icons and design systems for Google Fonts, Sehee Lee

Measuring the impact font grade has on text readability

Google’s most popular font gets customizable with the launch of Roboto Flex

The award-winning variable font comes to Google Fonts

Fine-tune weight, fill, optical size, and grade with the variable icon font, available on Google Fonts

Fraunces is a variable font that offers a variety of styles for text and display typography

Google co-sponsors The Readability Consortium

The newest member of the Roboto superfamily is designed to make reading more comfortable at any size, in any format.

A key factor in reading problems might be hiding in plain sight. Learn how changing fonts can change comprehension.

Give your simulated text a realistic look while making it easy to add copy later on with Dan Ross’s Flow Fonts and Christian Naths’s Redacted.

We’re tagging along with Google UXers on their dreamiest virtual adventures

Mysterious Polish font matrices spark interest in a lost and forgotten pre-World War II typeface

Google UXers share their dream digital escapes and the virtual treats they're bringing with them

A new resource to help designers and developers choose and use type with purpose

How my Indian joint family prepared me for my career at Google

User Experience Engineers are creative all-rounders who bridge the divide between engineering and design

Safe folder is a secure app for users who share phones, but the result is a solution that has benefits for everyone

Leveraging the power of breakthroughs and challenges—"ahas" and "uh-ohs"—to create a more balanced, healthy future for all

Google’s Head of Product Inclusion & Equity shares an excerpt from her recent book

Tried-and-true advice from Google designers, researchers, and managers

How I learned to stop worrying and start dreaming

Eureka moments don’t just happen—you have to cultivate them intentionally

Google UXers divulge their wildest travel dreams and what they’d pack in their virtual carry-ons

Exploring the aesthetics and functionality of the rule of three in user interfaces

Google’s developer conference is back, online, and free for everyone

Google’s AIUX team on creating more equitable AI-related products

Why our current definition of leadership doesn’t match the rallying cry for diversity, equity, and inclusion

How Design Sprints became the way Google—and the world—creates

Designer and journalist Cliff Kuang shares an excerpt from “User Friendly”

A look back at the year’s most resilient design projects

We ask Googlers what they’d pack in their virtual carry-ons to the destinations of their dreams

How a minimalist approach unlocked our ability to create a more detailed representation of the world

Google Seed Studio shares the inspiration behind their latest creative direction

How to make ambient computing work—for people

As variable fonts make their way into Google Fonts, learn what they are and their benefits for digital design–better compression for developers, greater expression for designers, and finer text typography for readers.

From basements to highrises, folding tables to gaming chairs, familial officemates to curious cat colleagues, six Googlers share their makeshift, out-of-office workstations

How the Floating Action Button became a Material Design icon

Techniques for prototyping machine learning systems across products and features

Gathering a trio of creatives at the leading edge of their fields, we explore how industrial design, AR, and VR are moving design forward at Google.

A personal tale of managing your career by molding your character

Designers and technologists look to the natural world to envision more resilient futures

From moonshot thinking to the power of listening, members of Google’s speculative design teams discuss how they’re rehearsing for what’s next.

A conversation about bringing more people and perspectives into the machine learning design process

We ask people who design and build Google products what they consider to be good design.

Nominate your product for a 2020 Material Design Award and help us showcase the flexibility and capability of the Material Design system

How YouTube created a tailor-made font that doubles as a brand ambassador

Find non-technical articles exploring ML’s impact on our lives, work, ethics, and the world

BJ Best on collaborating with computers to create poetry, music, and visual art

Five years of research went into developing Soli, a miniature radar chip that detects motion and understands nonverbal cues. The team behind the project details what it took to design a truly intuitive interface, and why this is only the beginning.

Gifs, memes, and emoji have quickly become a lingua franca. But what do they say about our collective need to be heard?

How Illustrator Laurie Rosenwald uses chaos to create creative potential

… according to Google art directors

Kerry Murphy of The Fabricant explains why digital fashion is the future

Talking to the designers behind Chrome’s biggest revamp yet

Exploring notions of identity in design and art with author and O-R-G founder David Reinfurt

A conversation on humanizing technology

The field of conversation design applies the intricacies of human speech patterns to the limitations of technology—teaching computers to communicate more like people (and not the other way around). Learn best practices for designing intuitive and informative experiences, from Google’s conversation design team.

The notable products, experiments, and redesigns that made our year

The 2019 Material Design Award winners on expression, innovation, and universal design

A six-step guide to supercharging product innovation and thinking big at YouTube

One design director’s advice on building and nurturing creative talent

GMUNK on the psychedelic origins of his aesthetic and the importance of discomfort

Recognizing best-in-class designs from around the community

Exploring our shared vulnerabilities—and shared futures—in ink and code

New media artist Harvey Moon on getting to know your tools and the art only technology can create

Learn what makes a strong creative collaboration—with Material Design Art Director Emily Blank

Google’s day-long interactive conference — uniting design, technology, and art

Artist Conor Grebel unpacks the relationship between his personal experiences and creative work

How conversation design can make technology more accessible, and people more empowered

Bayonet Records founders Katie Garcia and Dustin Payseur on collaborating with musicians

Explore new color palettes, revamped contrast, and increased legibility as four Google products adopt Material’s dark theme

Explore the emerging field of speculative design with Google designers Philip Battin and Curtis Flanagan

Host Liam Spradlin reflects on the first 25 episodes of the podcast series

Design Manager Mike Buzzard describes the seven phases of applying for a design job at Google

How a podcasting app uses color and quirky typography in a seamless cross-platform experience

MoMA’s Rob Giampietro on how design shapes our understanding of the world around us

Tactical guidance and best practices for designing human-centered AI products

A discussion on how designers can harness and humanize AI’s vast potential

Talks, workshops, news, and more—from Google’s annual developer conference

Explore the importance of UX writing in machine learning with Google Content Strategist Roxanne Pinto

Vanity Fair’s visual director Clinton Cargill on looking at photography with intent

Designing personalized interactions for Web and Assistant

Technologist John Maeda on the changing relationship between design and development

Google UX Lead Matthew Levine shares the origin story of Gallery, a design collaboration tool, in part three of our series on passion projects

Connecting type design to history and cultural identity with Ksenya Samarskaya

How Waymo designed an experience that reassures riders every step of the way

Google UX designers Adrienne Klum and Spencer Syfrig unpack their interactive ideation process in part two of our series on passion projects

Google UX Engineer Adam Argyle tells the story behind his popular new design tool, VisBug, in the first episode of a three-part series on passion projects

Exploring the music and movement of motion design with Bee Grandinetti and Hedvig Ahlberg

Designing a responsive Android app on Chrome OS

Design Director Isabelle Olsson on developing Google’s distinct and colorful hardware aesthetic

Veteran conversation designer James Giangola on why repeating things is often the right thing to do

How four teams harnessed Material’s components and code to craft award-winning experiences

All designers have secrets, tricks, and quirky habits—listen in as Google UX designers share their anonymous design confessions

Our annual review highlights the year’s noteworthy design projects

Revisit our special podcast series recorded live at last year’s SPAN Helsinki

Guidance to craft intuitive conversations that scale across devices

Clear and simple definitions of essential concepts

Experience Designer Daniel Perlin explores the importance of user feedback and designing for listening

Identity designer Jesse Reed on the lasting power of brand standards

Google’s Nithya Sambasivan and Jen Devins present a practical framework for an equitable product development process

Recognizing best-in-class designs from the community

Designer Ryan Snelson on inventing your own aesthetic and challenging industry norms

Learn how to design a persona and write a sample dialog, with this video series on conversation design best practices

Discover how Happn gamified the dating experience

Interdisciplinary designer Sang Mun on how privacy-focused design can empower users

IBM Senior Design Lead Chris Noessel explores how science fiction relates to real-world interface design

From product images to onboarding animations and doodles, Google illustrators describe the finer points of their craft

Learn how Ola—India's largest ride-sharing company—is designing for the next billion users

A behind-the-scenes look at creating a digital assistant persona for Google’s annual developer conference

A practical guide to writing scripts for conversation UIs

Google Lens’ Alex Cook explores how narrative can help designers better define—and communicate—design problems and solutions

Be inclusive by default

Learn how Walmart designed an effective user experience for their two million employees

Experiential sessions, hands-on workshops, thoughtful conversations. Our design and tech conference travels to Finland on 1 Nov 2018. Learn more and RSVP

Illustrator Libby VanderPloeg explores the relationship between art and artist

Context matters

An interdisciplinary panel of designers explore how they employ systematic thinking in their work, and the systems of everyday life

Waymo’s Head of UX Design on building trustworthy interfaces for self-driving cars

Get to know how the Google Fonts API keeps your type up-to-date and increasingly efficient

Design researcher Madeline Gannon on taming robots and reinventing the ways humans and machines interact

Find more projects from People + AI Research (PAIR) and discover how the team uses design and experimentation to make AI partnerships productive, enjoyable, and fair

Experience designer Satyam Kantamneni shares hard-won insights on the relationship of business to design

Composer and sound designer Conor O’Sullivan on the art of ringtones, notifications, and sonic expression

Designing for AI’s unseen users can lead to better products in the long run

How getting your hands dirty during the research phase can lead to better, more inclusive products

Follow IRC and Google.org as they redesign an app to better support Syrian refugees in Amman, Jordan

Architecture critic Alexandra Lange explores the design of childhood—from the sandbox to the street

Designers are finally doing justice to the complex, contextual alphabet with a fresh approach to Arabic fonts and digital typography

Material Design director Rich Fulcher on Google’s approach to design systems, and why customization drove the latest Material release

Lessons from a UX Researcher’s quest to land her dream job

Fictive Kin’s Cameron Koczon on understanding the foundational impact of design

Get to know Material Design’s new end-to-end features so you can design flexibly, develop across platforms, and customize more easily

Learn how apps like Lyft, Genius, NPR, Pocket Casts, and Zappos bring Material’s new expressive capabilities to life

Product teams from Gmail, Google News, Google Pay, and Google Home detail how Material Theming creates a cohesive, branded experience — and a roadmap for future redesigns

The talks, workshops, and app reviews you won’t want to miss

Google Empathy Lab’s Danielle Krettek discusses how personal AI tech will create a future deeply rooted in feeling

AIGA recognizes Google’s commitment to design excellence

UX insights on designing simple, accessible interfaces for teaching computers

Deeplocal CEO Nathan Martin on punk rock and authenticity

Material makes it easier for product teams to build beautiful, usable products faster. Dive into the latest Material features with this collection of articles, case studies, and product profiles.

Car experts Ryan Powell, Wendy Ju, and Melissa Cefkin discuss the multi-disciplinary design driving our fully automated future

Interaction designers Fiona Yeung and Alison Boncha talk about building Hexagon UX—a supportive creative community

No internet? No problem. Make your product come alive with offline design

Machine learning works best when users don’t have to think twice

Research tactics to help you design for all users and ability levels

Game designer Bennett Foddy on “Getting Over It” and the expressive power of frustration

“Scene over screen” and other key obstacles designers must solve before AR can reach its full potential

Studying the open source, collaborative work of Indian typographers, as a model for global font design

Golden Krishna on how to build a technologically advanced world without digital interfaces

UX designer Josh Lovejoy talks about designing Google Clips, and the future of AI-powered products

Why building inclusive tech takes more than good intentions

Designer and professor Molly Wright Steenson on lessons from the early foundations of AI

How reimagining an app’s experience led to five key lessons for building international products

Maggie Stanphill and Joscelin Cooper examine the influence of language and its relationship to improving product design

Interaction Designer Margaret Urban on the science of speech and designing voice user interfaces for the Google Assistant

Using Google Clips to understand how a human-centered design process elevates artificial intelligence

Get practical insights from Google’s People + AI Research (PAIR) team on how to take a multidisciplinary and human-centered approach to designing with machine learning and AI. Inside, find articles and video on how ML is changing the way we build experiences and interact with the world.

Take the mystery out of font selection with our step-by-step guidance

Ratna Desai, Steve Selzer, and Forest Young explain the the power of storytelling in product design and business strategy

Visual Designer Ayan Daniels talks about landing her dream job at Google, working on the next generation of Android Messages, and more

From gender equity to agricultural development, this video series covers a broad range of topics and offers insights from UX teams creating global products

We’re taking a moment to look back on 10 noteworthy design projects at Google

In this TEDx talk, UX lead Josh Lovejoy presents a case for including fairness as a core component of the machine learning process

Explore typographic culture and discover fonts for your next project with this collection of case studies, technical updates, and articles curated by the Google Fonts team.

Production Type introduces their latest commission for Google Fonts

Learn how to build an app with distinctive typography using Android Studio’s downloadable fonts feature

An inside look at how we design and evolve the branding of our annual design and technology conference

Highlighting the design process behind expanded language support in Google Docs and Slides

Explore typefaces crafted to combine harmoniously, with this featured collection on Google Fonts

How to choose the right prototyping method when field testing your global product

Broaden your perspective with this collection of talks about the role of design in shaping our future. Featuring respected innovators from diverse fields, each talk explores a different theme at the intersection of creativity, technology, and ethics.

Using design to reshape how we experience data

Mapping the intersection of tech and design in Pittsburgh

Pamela Pavliscak on the complexity of designing for human emotions

Learn about the research and design methods behind Google’s global products with this collection of articles, best practices, and design methods.

Get design inspiration and insights with this collection of podcasts. Method explores the career journeys of designers at Google, while Design Notes goes in-depth with designers working in diverse creative disciplines.

Marsha Haverty investigates how to make gestures and actions more familiar

Design Notes is a show about creative work and what it teaches us, hosted by Google’s Liam Spradlin

Watch talks by leading thinkers and practitioners in type design including Paula Scher, Roger Black, Dan Rhatigan, and Santiago Orozco

Recognizing best-in-class designs from around the community

A primer on how to make technology that works for everyone

What the world’s largest doodling dataset can teach us about creating useful and accessible AI-powered products

Robots are creatures, not things. What is the verb of architecture? Does data have a blind spot? These are just some of the ideas we explored at SPAN Pittsburgh

Six principles of human conversation poised to revolutionize Voice User Interface design

How a health app uses UX and storytelling to help people achieve their goals

A panel discussion on the ability of VR/AR to create positive impact

A new exhibition explores the utopian promise of West Coast design

7 steps to help you put people first when designing ML-driven products

A conversation with Project Fi Design Lead Jay Wong about prototyping, tools, and designers who code

The Google Method is a podcast exploring the design stories behind Google products and the people who make them

From VR to hardware, this collection of articles will guide and inspire you to do your best branding work

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

Learn how to design inclusive products for emerging economies by accounting for access, relevance, and design in your apps

Get the most out of #io17 with our guide to designer-focused events and talks

How neural networks and artists are working together to create recognizable illustrations

A conversation with Google’s Mike Buzzard on creativity, career advancement, and criteria for success

Four studios talk about the current design scene in South Korea’s capital

Best practices for designing a brand in VR

Digital natives are redesigning the way we build tech one tap at a time

How the new Pixel phones find depth in the design details

Explore everything from Processing and robotics to production design at our Los Angeles conference

Find the latest tools, resources, and guidelines for building with Material Design

Recognizing best-in-class designs from around the community

Watch all the talks from our LA conference and learn more about the speakers, including Peter Shire, Jessie Kawata, and Frances Anderton

Our Tokyo conference featured talks on machine learning, start-up culture, ikebana, type design, and more

Explore Google’s annual conference on design and technology with this collection of articles, guides, and video.

Motion designers from around Google share some of their most moving product features

Get to know our speakers and watch archived talks from the event

The story behind a new monospaced typeface by Colophon Foundry for Google Fonts

The new Google Fonts makes it easier than ever to browse our collection of open source designer fonts and learn more about the people who make them

Find and test out free, open source web fonts from the Google Fonts catalog

A step-by-step guide to staying on brand while going Material

An interactive viewer to see and test how digital products respond to Material Design breakpoints

Explore past editions of our quarterly email roundup

Learn about conditional design, privacy, VR, and emerging design tools at our London conference

A behind-the-scenes look at our SPAN 2015 reader

Watch conversations on talent, interaction design, and collaboration from our New York conference

A new brand identity makes Google more accessible and useful to our users

Watch video and short clips on the making of the Material Design system—learn the principles behind smart paper, type, motion, and more

Experience our first-ever design conference on the intersection between design and technology