Thought Leadership

A personal tale of managing your career by molding your character

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

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

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

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

Two UX designers on how research fuels Google Job Search

Clear and simple definitions of essential concepts

Google UX Director Margaret Lee on redefining design leadership and inclusivity in the workplace

Highlights from our Design Notes podcast recorded live from SPAN Pittsburgh last year

Google UX Director August de los Reyes on how abstractions can help designers craft powerful experiences

How Google Clips found the right balance between familiarity and functionality

Learn about the technologists, artists, creatives, and companies excited to share their knowledge at our upcoming design conference

Google UX Director Jens Riegelsberger on how Google became a design-led company by putting users first

MoMA’s Senior Design Curator explores how artificial intelligence helps designers reach visual and functional goals

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

UX insights on designing simple, accessible interfaces for teaching computers

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

Register for upcoming events, watch past talks, and explore our schedule

Why building inclusive tech takes more than good intentions

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

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

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

From sketching to Legos, UX Researcher Sydney Hessel talks about the creative benefits of serious play

Fashion designers Lizzy and Darlene Okpo

Pamela Pavliscak on the complexity of designing for human emotions

Marsha Haverty investigates how to make gestures and actions more familiar

Jess Holbrook and Josh Lovejoy demystify and explain human-centered machine learning

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

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

Jessica Helfand and Allison Arieff in conversation on design and human nature

A new exhibition explores the utopian promise of West Coast design

Senongo Akpem explores the boundaries of culturally responsive design

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

Gretchen Anderson on making products human-centered at scale

Google's Nandini Stocker examines the evolution of speech interfaces

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

Watch archived video from our Tokyo event and get to know each of the speakers, including Deyan Sudjic, Mariya Suzuki, and Keiichi Tanaami

Explore the visual, virtual, and written culture of Tokyo and Los Angeles through the work of our SPAN 2016 speakers

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

GV launches a new identity system (and takes their own advice)

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

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