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

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

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

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.

Talking to the designers behind Chrome’s biggest revamp yet

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

Recognizing best-in-class designs from around the community

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

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

Two UX designers on how research fuels Google Job Search

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

Recognizing best-in-class designs from the community

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

Best practices for collaboration

Lessons from designing “Emoji Scavenger Hunt”

Be inclusive by default

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

Context matters

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

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

Awareness is everything

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

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

UX Researcher Todd Hausman shares career lessons and research tips

UX insights on designing simple, accessible interfaces for teaching computers

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

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

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

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Why building inclusive tech takes more than good intentions

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

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

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

Talking design systems and user-first experiences with the winners of the 2017 Material Design Awards

Mapping the intersection of tech and design in Pittsburgh

Strategies and best practices for conducting UX surveys

Learn to plan, execute, and share insights from the field

Recognizing best-in-class designs from around the community

Daydream UX designer Darren Delaye discusses the future of safe and social VR

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

Interaction Designer Rita DeRaedt talks about homeschooling, risk-taking, and getting coffee with Sergey Brin

A new exhibition explores the utopian promise of West Coast design

Nine ways designers can be more empathic and effective when creating products for emerging markets

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

Google's Nandini Stocker examines the evolution of speech interfaces

Making to-dos more doable with color and character

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

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

Get the most out of your design reviews with this simple guide

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

A practical guide to designing across platforms