Thought Leadership
I Was Meant to Be a UX Researcher
Eshita Priyadarshini’s Indian joint family prepared her for a career at Google
Designing for Digital Wellbeing
Tech should improve people’s lives, not distract from them
Building for Everyone
Google’s Head of Product Inclusion & Equity shares an excerpt from her recent book
Six Ways to Develop Your UX Design Career
In a constantly evolving industry, there’s no one way to establish yourself
What the Fog
UX Director Dana Cho explains how getting lost is sometimes the best way to find the path
People, Products, and Epiphanies
UX Director Jens Riegelsberger on how to encourage teams teams toward eureka moments
Insights from a Reluctant Leader
UX Director Margaret Lee on the way her upbringing led to her current approach
Mastering Ambiance
How to make ambient computing work—for people
Contrary to Popular Belief
Hector Ouilhet’s personal tale of managing his career by molding his character
The Power of Visioning
A six-step guide to supercharging product innovation and thinking big at YouTube
Five Lessons in Managing Ambiguity
Design Director Joshua To’s advice on building and nurturing creative talent
In Dialogue—With Our Devices
How conversation design can empower users
A Thoughtful, Nuanced Approach to AI
A discussion on how designers can harness and humanize AI’s vast potential
SPAN x Design Notes
A special podcast series recorded live at SPAN Helsinki
Method: Episode 19
Two UX designers on how research fuels Google Job Search
Six AI Terms UXers Should Know
Clear and simple definitions of essential concepts
Method: Episode 18
Google UX Director Margaret Lee on redefining design leadership and inclusivity in the workplace
Listen to the Best of SPAN 2017
Highlights from our Design Notes podcast recorded live from SPAN Pittsburgh
Control and Simplicity in the Age of AI
How Google Clips found the right balance between familiarity and functionality
SPAN Helsinki: Meet Our Speakers
The technologists, artists, creatives, and companies sharing knowledge at our annual conference
Fast, Real-Time, and Fully Interactive
Lessons from designing the web game Emoji Scavenger Hunt
Method: Episode 15
UX Director Jens Riegelsberger on how Google became a design-led company
Paola Antonelli on the AI Renaissance
MoMA’s Senior Design Curator responds to new developments in AI
Design Notes: Episode 11
Design researcher Madeline Gannon on taming robots
First... Raters
Designing for AI’s unseen users is the best long-term strategy
Predictably Smart
Machine learning works best when users don’t have to think twice
Fair Is Not the Default
Why building inclusive tech takes more than good intentions
Design Notes: Episode 6
Designer and professor Molly Wright Steenson on the early foundations of AI
Method: Episode 8
Interaction Designer Margaret Urban on the science of speech
The Story of Business Strategy
Ratna Desai, Steve Selzer, and Forest Young on strategic storytelling
Method: Episode 6
From sketching to Legos, UX Researcher Sydney Hessel talks about the creative benefits of serious play
Design Notes: Episode 3
Fashion designers Lizzy and Darlene Okpo on what gives their fashion line its identity
Evoking Emotions
Pamela Pavliscak on the complexity of designing for human emotions
Viscosity, Texture, Dynamism
Autodesk’s Marsha Haverty investigates how to make gestures more familiar
What is HCML?
Jess Holbrook and Josh Lovejoy demystify “human-centered machine learning”
Speaking the Same Language
Six principles of human conversation that could revolutionize voice user interfaces
From Simulation to Action
A panel discussion on the ability of VR/AR to create positive impact
California: Designing Freedom
A new exhibition explores the utopian promise of West Coast design
It’s Only Natural
Jessica Helfand and Allison Arieff in conversation on design and human nature
Diverse Designs
Senongo Akpem explores the boundaries of culturally responsive design
Fostering Healthy Cultures in UX Design
Google’s Mike Buzzard on creativity, career advancement, and criteria for success
A Human Touch
Gretchen Anderson on making human-centered products at scale
Speak Easy
Google’s Nandini Stocker examines the evolution of speech interfaces
No Such Thing as Offline
Digital natives are redesigning the way we build tech one tap at a time
Guide to SPAN Tokyo
Watch archived video from our Tokyo event and get to know each of the speakers
SPAN Tokyo Meets SPAN LA
In 2016 SPAN spanned two cities—with thrilling results
Guide to 2016 SPAN LA
Catch up on all the events from the 2016 LA conference
Brand(ed) New
Google Ventures launches a new identity system
First Edition
A behind-the-scenes look at the legendary 2015 SPAN reader