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Sweating the small stuff • Slack Design...

How Slack invests in big little details through
Customer Love Sprints Most businesses say they love
their customers. Slack is no exception! But what do......

medium.com/salesforce-ux

Finding Courage and Confidence with
Women Talk Design...

What I learned about creating safe spaces that help
our teams grow and thrive...

medium.com/designing-atlassian

Ask these 3 quick questions to spark your
team’s creativity…...

When we fail to tap into our inner creatives, we
engage less with our work (bad for us) and end up
shipping less innovative solutions (bad…...

Frame 2021: design by the numbers...

The trends, insights, and surprises that we saw in
Figma and FigJam this year...

What’s new in Figma: December 2021...

A round-up of updates and improvements to Figma
and FigJam...

Flexible colors and themes for data
visualizations...

The 7-color palette and themes that power our new
analytics experience...

medium.com/design-ibm

Six vision points to design for a positive
future...

For most of design history, designers defined their
roles in society by adding the designed object to
their titles: furniture designers…...

The Maldives, Tai Chi, and Deep Sea
Explorations - Library - Google Design...

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

The Figma prototype challenge: 15 tips in
15 days...

What we learned from 15 days of prototypes...

www.invisionapp.com

V7 product updates: H2 2021 | Inside
Design Blog...

How to build your confidence as a UXer...

An alternative to ‘fake it until you make it’ for
personal development...

medium.com/microsoft-design

Silver Linings and New Hues...

Collaborating with Pantone to bring more color to
work and life...

www.invisionapp.com

4 trends designers need to know for 2022
| Inside Design Blog...

InVision’s 2022 trend report paints a picture of the
new hybrid world for designers, featuring expert
commentary from places like monday.com, Teladoc ......

medium.com/designatmeta

Writing the metaverse: Meta’s VP of
content design on the future of the disc......

Meta’s head of content design shares what’s ahead
for the field....

medium.com/design-ibm

Love Is A Universal Experience...

Communication between functional groups is
challenging in any organization. We all speak slightly
different dialects when it comes to how…...

Designing with Dynamic Content in Figma...

4 proven approaches to leveling up your designs and
moving faster...

medium.com/design-ibm

Advancing Racial Equity in Design: The
Field Guide...

In the summer of 2020, amidst the global pandemic
and a contentious social landscape, it seemed like
every day there was another story on…...

medium.com/designatmeta

Designing our new company brand: Meta...

A look into our new brand system, designed
collectively by brand and product teams from across
the company...

medium.com/design-ibm

Accessibility offers the Ultimate User
Experience...

Today is International Persons with Disabilities Day,
which provides an opportunity to further reflect on
IBM’s contributions to…...

medium.com/designing-atlassian

Create accessible designs using the
Figma A11y Annotation kit...

Accessible experiences don’t design themselves. If
designers don’t annotate their designs with
accessibility properties and behaviors then…...

medium.com/design-ibm

Creating space for design in Agile...

Working within an agile framework focused on fast
and iterative deliverables, how can designers create
opportunities for Design Thinking?...

I Was Meant to Be a UX Researcher -
Library - Google Design...

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

medium.com/design-ibm

From Interactions to Experiences Through
Service Design...

In May of 2021, IBM hosted its first-ever internal
design conference: SPARK. This three-day virtual
conference was organized by IBM…...

How we layered product principles to
refresh Slack notifications • Slack Design...

Close your eyes and imagine yourself using Slack.
What are two phrases you’d use to describe that
experience? Whatever your phrases are, hopefully t......

medium.com/designatmeta

“We are all relatives”: Native designers
on connection, responsibility and interd......

This November, Meta honored the cultures, traditions
and histories of Native American people in the U.S.
The theme — “be a good relative”…...

medium.com/salesforce-ux

How to Start Designing Your Bot
Personality...

If you align with the brand guidelines, customer
needs, and the needs of the bot — you’ll create a
great personality....

medium.com/design-ibm

Feeling new to UX? Five ways to unlock
your early career success...

Congratulations, you started a new career. You’re
relieved to finally be done job hunting. It’s the only
marathon with a moving finish…...

What’s new in Figma: November 2021...

A round-up of updates and improvements to Figma
and FigJam...

The UX holiday gift guide 2021...

A curated guide by our UX team for
beautifully-designed gifts available from Shopify
stores...

How to maximize delight in data
visualizations...

The use of time-space narrative and storybooks in
Shopify’s Live View redesign...

medium.com/design-ibm

UX Design in India- the present
challenges, and the potential future...

In my last article, I wrote about the system of UX
design in India from an experience at the Student
Service Design Challenge 2021. In this…...

Build the thing: an IA model for
organizing documentation...

Why we reorganized Shopify.dev around developer
goals, not information type...

medium.com/spotify-design

Finding the Perfect Word Isn’t the Job:
Evolve Copy into Language With UX Wri......

In UX Writing, the difference between good and great
work can be as simple as moving beyond last-minute
games of ‘find another word for X…...

medium.com/design-ibm

UX Design in India: Understanding the
system from an experience at the Stude......

In January of 2021, I found an opportunity within IBM
to be the design coach of a team of design students
competing in the annual Student…...

medium.com/design-ibm

Continuous Learning: We Are the Ones
We’ve Been Waiting For...

For a design practice as large, dynamic, and
specialized as ours, we must adopt a mindset of
continuous learning, and create the actual…...

medium.com/design-ibm

Advertising creatives make great
enterprise designers. Here’s why....

How we built an experience design team with half
product designers and half advertising
creatives — and why it worked....

What we misunderstand about imposter
syndrome as design leaders...

Are we really impostors, or have we been gaslit into
thinking so?...

medium.com/salesforce-ux

What’s the Difference? Configured vs
Custom Design...

Avoid re-work with these universal definitions...

medium.com/spotify-design

Invisible made Visible: The Value of
Designing Tools for Internal Teams...

You’ve probably heard the phrase “good design is
invisible.” Well, that statement is certainly true of
Spotify, where it’s the design…...

medium.com/designing-atlassian

The only one of your species...

When you are the only one of your species in a
group, it can be empowering, but also quite lonely…...

Why Google Needs UXEs - Library - Google
Design...

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

Black Stories/01: Gloria Osardu Ph.D...

Gloria Osardu Ph.D, Manager of UX Research and
Design at Amazon, joins Sr. Media Producer Justin
James Lopez for a chat about her path into the worl......

Stay in the flow with redesigned
comments...

Introducing updates to comments in Figma and
FigJam...

medium.com/design-ibm

Handcuffed to Aliens: Developing
Stronger Cross-functional Partnerships ......

Ten years ago, a publisher offered me a contract to
write a business book with the working title,
Handcuffed to Aliens: The People…...

medium.com/salesforce-ux

Before You Design Slack Experiences, Do
This...

Three fundamental mindset shifts our design team
made that set us up for success...

Behind the build: a Q&A with developer
Gavin McFarland...

A Q&A with Gavin on the FigJam widget he built and
what he's working on next ...

A multi-craft approach for accessible
landing pages...

How the Marketing UX team designed an accessible
landing page for the ‘Born for Business’ docu-series...

medium.com/salesforce-ux

Let’s Build a Better Future for
Tech — Intentionally...

Our new Build with Intention Toolkit helps harness
design to identify ethical risks and drive
opportunities to include and advocate for…...

From candidate interviews to developer
crits: how Figma engineering uses FigJa......

A Q&A with the Figma engineering team...

pinterest.design

You’re a STEM major? Your dream job
might be in Design...

How a science and math education solves design
challenges...

medium.com/design-ibm

Listening to Customers: Ain’t Nothing
Like the Real Thing...

In my last post, I touched on some of the conditions
that make pervasive excellence in design possible.
Now let’s unpack the first one…...

How to create accessible and inclusive
product content guidelines...

4 takeaways for starting small to effect change
through language...

medium.com/design-ibm

IBM Master Data Management notches a
Gold in the 2021 New York Design Awards...

Story behind the making of the award winning IBM
Master Data Management product experience....

medium.com/design-ibm

6 content design principles that apply to
puppy training...

Okay, to state the obvious: dogs are not people.
People are — generally speaking — more intelligent,
less furry, better at conversation…...

medium.com/microsoft-design

Slowing Down To Speed Up...

A cross-discipline collaboration to ethically leverage
AI and improve in-person shopping experiences...

medium.com/designing-atlassian

10 (hard-learned) lessons when designing
for native mobile...

Before I started designing for native mobile
applications, I was developing responsive web apps.
Back then, if we had met at a happy hour…...

Behind the build: a Q&A with developer
Tekeste Kidanu...

A Q&A with Tekeste on the FigJam widgets he built
and what he's working on next...

medium.com/design-ibm

Why the testimony of Frances Haugen is
important to designers...

AI, in and of itself, creates a new genre of work for
designers, and along with that, comes great
opportunity....

medium.com/salesforce-ux

Why Do We Need to Design
Conversations?...

Human conversation is varied, complex, and
contextual. How can we teach machines to
seamlessly chat with us?...

medium.com/design-ibm

Refining and Improving the Watson
Assistant User Experience...

We’ve made big design and UX changes to Watson
Assistant so that it’s more user friendly, less
complicated, and easier to extend and…...

medium.com/microsoft-design

Behind the Design: Refreshing the Office
Apps for Windows 11...

How our fresh new designs help you focus on
creation and collaboration...

www.invisionapp.com

How asynchronous work made Spotify’s
Vicki Tan better at her job | Inside Desig......

Behind the build: a Q&A with developer
Tru Narla...

A Q&A with Tru on the widget she built and what
she's working on next ...

Making Device-Specific Privacy a Design
Priority - Library - Google Design...

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

pinterest.design

Accessible design is easier than you think...

Easy-to-follow guidelines can make accessibility part
of your everyday design process...

What’s new in Figma: October 2021...

A round-up of updates and improvements to Figma
and FigJam...

medium.com/design-ibm

Pervasive Excellence across IBM: Three
ways design can make it happen...

Before I joined IBM this summer, I asked the former
GM, Phil Gilbert, how we were doing with design....

medium.com/salesforce-ux

Make Better Design Decisions with Data...

Behind every data point, there is a human being. Our
job is to translate those numbers to create
connections with customers....

Interactive components: less wiring, more
inspiring...

Introducing interactive components and a handful of
smaller improvements...

medium.com/microsoft-design

Four Principles for the Future of Design...

How the Fluent Design System helps us evolve and
grow better together...

medium.com/design-ibm

Red Hat Marketplace Earns a Silver in the
2021 w3 Awards...

Story behind the 2021 w3 Silver Award win for Red
Hat Marketplace....

Open sessions: jam with anyone,
anywhere...

Introducing a way for collaborators to temporarily
join meetings and workshops...

medium.com/designing-atlassian

Tracking designs using watermarks...

How to avoid draft designs being used in production...

Thoughts on Design (Systems)...

The product design team at Medium has been
working on updating our design system, our guide for
how we build Medium. I’ve been thinking…...

Introducing new FigJam prices and a more
open platform...

Announcing changes to help you bring more people
into FigJam...

Designing for Digital Wellbeing - Library -
Google Design...

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

www.invisionapp.com

This is the biggest problem that will
result from hybrid work | Inside Design ......

How to say no to meetings without feeling
guilty • Slack Design...

Being immersed in Slack’s highly collaborative
culture and an even closer-knit team, saying no to
meetings used to be slightly terrifying. But when I r......

medium.com/design-ibm

IBM Automation Decision Services Earns
“Olympic” Success...

While athletes from around the world competed for a
spot on the Olympic podium this past summer, IBM
Design found international success of…...

LiveGraph: real-time data fetching at
Figma...

How we empower engineers to build real-time data
views...

medium.com/facebook-design

Building a brand identity for the world’s
largest community...

Explore the Facebook app’s new brand design system
and strategy’s role in bringing it to life....

medium.com/designatmeta

Building a brand identity for the world’s
largest community...

Explore the Facebook app’s new brand design system
and strategy’s role in bringing it to life....

medium.com/salesforce-ux

Design Stories and Truth...

The role of storytelling in design strategy...

Designing a remote UX mentorship
program...

Lessons learned from the creation, challenges, and
constant iterations of the remote UX Mentorship
Program at Shopify...

How (and why) we built branching...

The backstory of why we built branching, and how it
came together in Figma...

medium.com/design-ibm

Taking the leap: Changing Careers into
Design and Lessons Learned Along the ......

Marcsene Torchon, Design Researcher, tells his story
on how he transitioned from a social worker to an
entry-level role as a designer....

www.invisionapp.com

How to negotiate a higher salary,
according to a leading executive search......

A designer’s guide to user interviews...

How to ask better questions to propel your design
forward...

medium.com/design-ibm

IBM Design Soars in Cloud Computing
Competition...

IBM Virtual Private Cloud Infrastructure with
Interconnectivity and Red Hat Marketplace
recognized as 2021 Stratus Award Winners...

www.invisionapp.com

4 new ways Freehand helps you cut down
on digital distractions | Inside Design Blog...

Building for Everyone - Library - Google
Design...

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

medium.com/design-ibm

How to Build a compelling UX Research
Roadmap...

Research roadmaps can be one of the most valuable
assets for a UX researcher. They help you gain
alignment and communicate your priorities…...

medium.com/designing-atlassian

Designing something new with the
Atlassian Design System...

Atlassian Design System designers spend
considerable time thinking about how the system is
used and how we can make it better....

medium.com/salesforce-ux

Perspectives from Black Designers...

Continue to celebrate the #PowerofBlackDesigners...

medium.com/design-ibm

Thinking of AI through the lens of
philosophy...

I’ve worked on AI projects for years — building out
interfaces to make automation adoption easier and
working on it’s UX to ensure its not…...

The story of Slack Clips: Prototyping the
path to audio and video messages • Sla......

We recently announced the rollout of audio and video
clips in Slack, which allow anyone on Slack’s paid
plans to send audio, video, and screen share messa......

www.invisionapp.com

5 new Freehand updates to enhance your
workflows | Inside Design Blog...

pinterest.design

From agency research to in-house UX...

Two Pinterest researchers share what they’ve learned
along the way...

medium.com/salesforce-ux

How to Design a Collaborative Experience
(Instead of a Virtual Workshop)...

For most, if not all, of us working in the tech
industry–we have gotten very used to working
remotely. In our always-on, always-connected…...

www.invisionapp.com

Try PayPal’s ‘Conscious Design Canvas’ to
build more inclusive products | Inside D......

What’s new in Figma: September 2021...

The features, fixes, and capabilities we've added to
Figma and FigJam...

medium.com/design-ibm

IBM announces the Honorary IBM Design
Scholar and its inaugural Program Resid......

The Honorary IBM Design Scholar...

In-depth: the long-term research behind
Shopify Inbox...

Why the future of business chat is still human and a
blueprint for your research plans...

medium.com/design-ibm

Slow down and reflect: How I stopped
working as hard and got promoted...

When you work for a large company like IBM, it’s
easy to feel like you’re just another cog in the wheel.
I wanted to stand out, to shine…...

medium.com/spotify-design

Making the Brand: Fresh Finds Playlist
Collection...

For the redesign of the Fresh Finds playlist collection,
Editorial Design collaborated with partner It’s Nice
That. To speak to the nuances…...

medium.com/spotify-design

How to Nail Remote Onboarding and
Influence People...

Onboarding remotely? It doesn’t have to be scary.
Senior UX Writer, Nicole A. Michaelis, has put
together her quick tips for onboarding…...

medium.com/design-ibm

User Research at IBM Data-AI...

We are hiring user researchers and leaders. Come
join us and help enterprises do more with their data!...

medium.com/designing-atlassian

30 Days of Creativity 2021...

During 2020, Atlassians channeled their fear,
frustration, and focus, and joined in on the 30 days of
creativity during COVID. The premise…...

6 Ways to Develop Your UX Design Career
- Library - Google Design...

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

medium.com/design-ibm

The First 60 Days...

“What is your vision?”...

Wine tasting and product design...

As product designers, we are responsible for
empathizing with our users. And we’ve developed a
number of tools to help us do just that—we…...

How Elsewhen builds digital products for
their clients...

Learn about how Elsewhen helped their clients,
Spotify and Inmarsat, improve their productivity
through collaboration in Figma....

Announcing Schema, Figma’s design
systems conference...

Learn more about what to expect, and apply to
attend...

medium.com/design-ibm

How to better transition from traditional
graphic design to roles in digital and vis......

Oen Hammonds, IBM Design Principal, dishes out
advice on how designers can make the leap by filling
in skills gaps and how to present…...

medium.com/salesforce-ux

How to Design Trusted Multi-Channel
Conversations...

Learn how designers ensure user experiences are
seamless and trustworthy across channels and
devices...

UX reviews: a template for success...

How to structure your next UX review to get
actionable feedback —plus a Figma template to try...

medium.com/design-ibm

Red Hat® Marketplace User Experience
Receives International Acclaim...

Design team earns a 2021 European Product Design
Award...

Make things that people want (instead of
what you want them to want) • Slack D......

There are plenty of comprehensive pieces on the
practice of product design out there—our own Kyle
Turman has written an excellent post on the Pillars ......

medium.com/designing-atlassian

Experience debt — what it is, how to
measure it, and how to pay it down...

Here’s a story. Let’s say you start as a designer
working at a software company. Your team moves
fast. You get scrappy and learn by…...

www.invisionapp.com

The difference in design and engineer
thinking, according to author Scott Berk......

Inside Figma: getting out of the (secure)
shell...

Tips from the Figma security team to help other
teams secure Systems Manager and protect their
most sensitive data...

www.invisionapp.com

How BMO Financial builds efficient
multi-product design systems | Inside D......

BMO Financial's design system powers and connects
a growing subsystem network, scaling organization
to benefit the global company....

design.lyft.com

We’ve been content designers for a
while — but now it’s official...

How a discipline-wide struggle to find the “right title”
mirrors our day-to-day work finding “the right word.”...

Talk it out in Figma and FigJam...

Introducing audio and cursor chat, two new ways to
communicate without leaving Figma and FigJam...

pinterest.design

A lens on inspiration...

A look at the creative process and career journey of
Pinterest’s photo editor....

medium.com/salesforce-ux

5 Ways Designers Lead with Reciprocity...

There’s a sense that when design thinkers and
customers get along it’s good for their working
relationship. Actually, this feeling of…...

Figma for students and educators...

How Figma can help during this back-to-school
season...

medium.com/design-ibm

Designing for emotional delight...

When was the last time that you used a product that
left you with a smile — whether it be the overall
product experience or a small…...

medium.com/facebook-design

How to Build a Resilient Design
Community...

Why build community at a company? It makes people
happy and helps them do better work. And when
challenges arise, a strong sense of…...

medium.com/designatmeta

How to Build a Resilient Design
Community...

Why build community at a company? It makes people
happy and helps them do better work. And when
challenges arise, a strong sense of…...

How to get a job with Shopify UX...

A four-step guide to take you from interested to
interviewing...

Rethinking a design thinking workshop
for good...

How students at Design the Future used FigJam to
solve challenges for people living with disabilities...

FIT’s principles for fostering a
collaborative classroom...

Best practices from professors at the Fashion
Institute of Technology on how to construct a virtual
classroom in Figma...

What’s new in Figma: August 2021...

The features, fixes, and capabilities we've added to
Figma and FigJam...

medium.com/designing-atlassian

When “Understanding” the User Goes
Wrong...

A cautionary research tale from an Atlassian
researcher. . ....

Bringing the power of our open platform
to FigJam...

Inviting all builders to create the first plugins and
widgets for FigJam...

www.invisionapp.com

How to better collaborate with
teammates across locations and time zo......

The voice of the brand: 5 principles for
great Marketing copy at Slack • Slack D......

Learn the five copy principles that help us write great
Marketing copy in the Slack voice and tone. Part 1
in a series Words give meaning to your marketing......

medium.com/design-ibm

IBM Sets Company Record with 3 Product
Design Wins at the 2021 Red Dot Awards...

IBM Cloud Satellite, IBM Watson Knowledge Catalog,
and IBM OpenPages with Watson win one of
industry’s most prestigious design awards...

medium.com/asana-design

Guest feature: Meet Asana Experience
Researcher, Sofia Dewar...

Meet Sofia Dewar, Experience Researcher at Asana
based in San Francisco....

medium.com/design-ibm

Announcing our 2021 IBM Design
Principals...

On behalf of the IBM Design Leadership Board and as
its chair, it is my honor and privilege to announce our
newly appointed 2021 IBM Design…...

medium.com/design-ibm

Insights from An IBM Enablement Study...

In May of 2021, IBM hosted its first ever internal
design conference: SPARK. This three-day virtual
conference was organized by IBM…...

www.invisionapp.com

How design is fueling Ford’s massive
transformation | Inside Design Blog...

Inside Figma: building a more
collaborative design process...

How our product design team uses FigJam...

medium.com/designing-atlassian

Designing the future, 14 days at a time...

What would it take to design a future every 14 days?
Who needs to be involved and where do we begin?...

www.invisionapp.com

3 tips for better hybrid collaboration
using Microsoft Teams and Freehand | I......

As part of InVision’s Picture the Future series,
InVision’s Jeff Chow recently sat down with Clint
Williams, principal product manager at Microsoft Te......

medium.com/design-ibm

Design Lead into Management: how I
discovered motivation through ambival......

First day excitement and jumbled thoughts: Will
everyone like me? I love what I do, what can go
wrong? Everything can go wrong! I can’t…...

Inside Figma: a Q&A with our 2021
interns and new grads...

Four Figmates share their advice, learnings, and
reflections on joining Figma...

medium.com/salesforce-ux

What’s the Difference Between
Conversation UI and Conversation Desig......

Demystifying the elements that make up great
conversations....

Inside Figma: securing internal web apps...

A deep-dive into how we provide access to internal
applications...

How to test for accessibility with users at
every design stage...

A research template to test solutions for people with
disabilities...

design.lyft.com

User-centered Design System Resources...

How to go beyond asset libraries and build systems
for people....

medium.com/salesforce-ux

UX Prototyping for AI...

Six ways to prototype AI experiences...

medium.com/pinterest-studio

Design x Design: Finding energy and joy
in the unknown...

This is an installment of our blog’s recurring series,
Design x Design. Members of the Pinterest design
team — designers, researchers…...

pinterest.design

Design x Design: Finding energy and joy
in the unknown...

This is an installment of our blog’s recurring series,
Design x Design. Members of the Pinterest design
team — designers, researchers…...

medium.com/design-ibm

Expert advice for nurturing relationships
with customers...

Earlier this year, we held a panel session to learn
some best practices for creating a successful User
Experience Program from members…...

www.invisionapp.com

The most-loved Freehand templates,
according to people like you | Inside De......

Hey Slack Design — What are the best
ways to uplevel or learn new skills? • Sl......

Glad you asked! This question is especially relevant
to me right now, as I’m currently learning a new
prototyping tool here at Slack. 🙃 Whether you’re tr......

A Q&A with Figma’s VP of Product...

The road to building FigJam, and how things continue
to change across design and product development...

medium.com/salesforce-ux

Machine Learning: Redrawing the
Innovation Roadmap...

A data-first approach and how to execute it in two
steps...

medium.com/design-ibm

Patients, Drugs, and Technology: Thinking
about the future of healthcare...

As the world of healthcare is constantly shaped and
evolved by emerging technologies, systems and
processes, and the very environment that…...

A video format for impactful design
project updates...

How I get stakeholder attention and buy-in using
video project updates...

medium.com/designing-atlassian

So you say you don’t need a content
designer…...

No-one wants a content designer, until they get
one — and then they want a content designer all the
time and on every project! It’s true…...

30 updates: recent features and fixes in
Figma...

A compilation of recent improvements that enhance
your workflow in Figma...

medium.com/spotify-design

Designing a New Foundation: Spotify for
Desktop...

The new Desktop app has rolled out, replacing one of
Spotify’s oldest and most loved clients. As a Design
Team, it’s often difficult…...

www.invisionapp.com

V7 product updates: Q2 2021 | Inside
Design Blog...

www.invisionapp.com

The best leadership advice this
former-NASA CTO ever received | Inside ......

How the Figma PM team builds products
and processes...

A look at their daily habits and weekly syncs...

medium.com/facebook-design

‘We’re here’: A powerful message and
visual expression from two Black design......

Designers share how they created Instagram’s
#BlackDesignVisionaries grant program artwork: by
starting with a capital ‘B.’...

medium.com/designatmeta

‘We’re here’: A powerful message and
visual expression from two Black design......

Designers share how they created Instagram’s
#BlackDesignVisionaries grant program artwork: by
starting with a capital ‘B.’...

medium.com/design-ibm

Delivering design education during a
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The IBM Patterns Design Education team had to pivot
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Speak up and speak out: A journey on
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“Fish forget they’re surrounded by water, and you’re
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Microsoft’s new emojis...

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Co-creating our Atlassian Design System
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Behind the plugin: Cards for Humanity ...

An interview with the team who built the digital card
came...

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Windows 11: Designing the Next
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How we built a single product for over a billion
people...

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Resilient user experience
patterns — impactful designs that actual......

Design systems deserve well-documented guidance,
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5 proven ways to run your best remote
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Want to run your best and most inclusive design
sprint yet? Use these five practical tips from Jay
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Problems versus Dilemmas: The Complex
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Facebook’s VP of Product Design and Responsible
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Problems versus Dilemmas: The Complex
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Facebook’s VP of Product Design and Responsible
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We have opened an office in New York City to better
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A Data-Driven Guide to Operationalizing
Inclusion...

Many of us care about diversity, but how do we push
beyond awareness to effect real change?...

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Winning with fidelities: Part 3...

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Hey Slack Design — When will I know that
I should be a manager? If I decide I wan......

I wish I could tell you that I had a flowchart to show
you precisely when you should switch to
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How News UK developed a multi-brand
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The team at News UK shares their experience
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and TV...

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Why now is the best time for you to adopt
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Kaelig Deloumeau-Prigent, co-chair of the Design
Tokens W3C Community Group, shares his thoughts
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People, Products, and Epiphanies -
Library - Google Design...

Eureka moments don’t just happen—you have to
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Diverse sampling in user research: Why it
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Imagine this: you go to wash your hands before
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Creating a spark with the IBM Spark
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Be engaged. Feel empowered. Get excited....

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This is a really good question—without any right
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your career. Ask yourself: What kind of impact do y......

Hey Slack Design — How can I tell which
companies I should go for to get the mo......

If you’re thinking about this question early in your
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Learning Lessons...

How to build a Design education program  for
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Next-generation theme design: how we
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An in-depth look at how our newest theme was
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9 Tips for Collaborating Virtually...

Miro Superuser shares his digital best practices for
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Collaborative flowcharting: What it is
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Competitive Intelligence for Design Teams
🚀...

How to create better products by looking at the
competition....

The Year 3000, Secret Draft Emails, and
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Google UXers divulge their wildest travel dreams and
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Sound Advice...

Facebook’s director of sound design on empathy,
collaboration, and human connection...

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Sound Advice...

Facebook’s director of sound design on empathy,
collaboration, and human connection...

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Designing what you don’t know...

How creating internal data products helped me
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Design Tokens: What they are and how to
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How do I build a good mentor/mentee
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Advice for mentees on building an effective
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The Three Biggest Challenges Designers
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You won’t know until you try....

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Celebrating the #PowerofBlackDesigners
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Twelve Black designers voice their experiences,
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Behind the digital curtain — designing our
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7 Tips to make your chatbot sound
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Empower your chatbot to handle difficult
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The magic of collaborating across
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How I work with developers and product teams to
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The five stages of an effective brainstorm...

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New: We’ve made Freehand available to
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How our team celebrates and syncs in the file...

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Why the history of the gender binary
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My Unconventional Journey to Becoming a
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Archetypes for creative leadership...

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Rick and Morty + 5 IBMers: Patterns,
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What happens when you throw five early professional
IBM designers into a fully immersive, high-pressure
six-week program centered around…...

Pride 2021: Getting back out there...

Reflections on Pride month, and how you can
participate...

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Localisation and Product Design: One Fits
All...

When designing a product, you might wonder if one
concept fits all. If you can simply get it translated
and reproduce it across markets. Today, you will se......

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A Designer’s Guide to TrailheaDX ‘21...

What are the can’t-miss sessions for design
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Can Accessible Design Help Brand Emails
Break Through?...

Discover how to design a modern email for audiences
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Meet Asana Design: Jina Anne...

Welcome to our blog series, Meet Asana Design,
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team....

The best of Inside Shopify UX...

Highlights from our first podcast season...

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Better in Black: Rethinking our Most
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We’re changing Spotify’s most important buttons.
Here’s why....

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Growing a Distributed Product Design
Team...

When I moved to Stockholm at the beginning of
2020, I was tasked with expanding the internal tools
team in Spotify’s Platform Mission. We…...

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Reducing Design Friction: Why a dev
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TL;DR: 6 mo of work by 1 intern and the 20% time of
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Embracing the mess at Config 2021...

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Designers Need to Move People and
Pixels...

Shahrzad Samadzadeh, VP of UX at Salesforce, talks
about design as a team sport....

The “Rule of Three” Also Works in
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Exploring the aesthetics and functionality of the rule
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Q&A with Dantley Davis...

25 quick questions, plus his closing keynote from
Config 2021...

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Meet Asana Design: Cici Chen...

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A map for uncovering your assumptions...

How I use journey mapping to align teams before
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Hiring for Design Ops at Lyft...

How we think and what we look for...

In the file at Config 2021...

The tactics, processes, and systems that keep teams
running...

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A Blueprint for Designing Inclusive AR/VR
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By Michelle Cortese and Andrea Zeller...

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A Blueprint for Designing Inclusive AR/VR
Experiences...

By Michelle Cortese and Andrea Zeller...

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Improve Your Salesforce Homepage with a
Human-Centered Design Process...

The highest-performing Salesforce homepages have
one thing in common: upfront user research...

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A is for Access...

A designer shares how her one-year-old inspired a
new accessibility design team...

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A is for Access...

A designer shares how her one-year-old inspired a
new accessibility design team...

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Meet Asana Design: Kofa Boyah...

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where we feature members of the Asana Design
team....

Designing for cognitive disabilities...

Things we’re doing (and aiming for) at Shopify...

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A design approach to diversity and
inclusion...

Foster more diverse and inclusive communities with
the Dropbox Design toolkit....

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Four ways to build delightful experiences
into your product...

Delight has a somewhat wobbly boundary of
meaning in the product design community, yet we all
understand it on some level…...

Inside Maker Week: more than a
hackathon...

A behind-the-scenes look at a Figma tradition, and
some of our favorite moments ...

I/O 2021: Our Definitive Guide to Design -
Library - Google Design...

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

Hey Slack Design — should I freelance or
go in-house?...

Freelance or in-house? Senior Product Designer
Caroline Shen gives a thoughtful analysis of the pros
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Meet Asana Design: Christina Trifero...

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where we feature members of the Asana Design
team....

Hey Slack Design - How much code should
I learn?...

Slack senior product designer Kristin Au gives advice
on how much code designers might need to know,
and why....

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Touching Holograms...

How the Microsoft Mixed Reality Studios explored
more immersive interactions...

Racial Equity in Everyday Products -
Library - Google Design...

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

Shifting team culture at Config 2021...

Some of our favorite moments from the conference...

How virtual debates make building
context more fun...

Plus a Figma virtual debate kit to run your own....

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Meet a forward-looking type...

Pinterest Sans — a typeface for tomorrow’s ideas...

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Meet a forward-looking type...

Pinterest Sans — a typeface for tomorrow’s ideas...

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Color, through an inspired lens...

Scaling color to infinite possibilities...

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Color, through an inspired lens...

Scaling color to infinite possibilities...

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Creating a window into the possibilities of
tomorrow...

How (and why) we developed a brand identity with
inspiration at the heart...

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Creating a window into the possibilities of
tomorrow...

How (and why) we developed a brand identity with
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Design Highlights - 2021...

A festive parade of design from Amazon...

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3 Ways to Be a More Ethical Designer
During a Pandemic...

Create vaccine management programs that serve
everyone....

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Meet Asana Design: Tamar
Pacheco-Theard...

Welcome to our blog series, Meet Asana Design,
where we feature members of the Asana Design
team....

Q&A with Robyn Kanner...

25 quick questions, plus her closing keynote from
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Hey Slack Design — I studied a bunch of
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How do new design grads know which career path is
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Slack content designer TJ Lee weighs in on useful
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Design System Checklist: How to Screen
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The four criteria that will set your design system up
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Meet Asana Design: Kritika Kushwaha...

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What’s in a name? Introducing Content
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Why we’ve changed the job title of our UX Writing
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Beyond Calibri: Finding The Next
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We’ve commissioned five new custom fonts–help us
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Introducing branching: space to iterate
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Announcing branching in beta ...

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Making Machine Learning
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How we united UX Research and ML to improve
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Making Machine Learning
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How we united UX Research and ML to improve
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A day in the life of a content designer at
Deliveroo...

Our content designers work across all of our
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Meet Asana Design: Andrew Rose...

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Coming together at Config 2021...

Everything we announced at Config 2021...

Introducing FigJam...

FigJam is an online whiteboard for teams to
brainstorm and ideate together...

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Behind the Design: Rethinking support
messaging in the Lyft app...

An end-to-end case study of the design process for a
feature where riders and drivers can reference past
chats with Lyft support....

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Say Anything? Behind the Scenes of
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Find out how product teams can create ready-made
conversation replies through content design
principles....

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Say Anything? Behind the Scenes of
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Find out how product teams can create ready-made
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Why inclusive design is essential to
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A conversation between two Slack designers Nikki
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Collaborating Through a Pandemic...

For these copy/design duos, inspiration, trust, and
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How Repsol rethinks the way the world
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Repsol, Spain's largest multi-energy company, set
out to unify their designs in Figma while making
energy more approachable to consumers....

About Figma’s new Starter plan...

Changes to our Starter plan...

Insights from a Reluctant Leader - Library
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Why our current definition of leadership doesn’t
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inclusion...

Behind the feature: building
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What it took to build and ship a (seemingly) simple
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How—and why—to create product principles to guide
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Behind the scenes of creating the official
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How the team at Tailwind Labs created a set of fully
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How I Found My Way on a New Team:
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“Started from the bottom now we’re here!”...

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How I Found My Way on a New Team:
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“Started from the bottom now we’re here!”...

Design Inspiration, 3.25...

We’re back with a spring installment of more things
the design team has been looking at, reading,
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Completing a transit map...

Build on a work-in-progress Figma Community file
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Bay Area ...

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Naming Personalized Playlists at Spotify...

I still remember the first playlist I helped name at
Spotify. I’m a UX Writer on the Personalization team
at Spotify and naming —…...

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Lessons from One Designer’s Journey in
Uncentering Her Design Practice...

When Janey Lee moved to Stockholm to join Spotify
Design, one of her main goals was to learn more
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By the numbers: one year of remote work ...

How work has changed over the past year, and what
collaboration looks like through the lens of two Figma
customers...

Shifting from Consumer UX Design to
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Shifting from UX design to product design was pretty
straightforward: the bigger challenge was adapting
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Interviewing with Lyft Design: The
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Insight into the Product Design interview experience...

Behind the feature: comments,
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How the team handled difficult interactions and edge
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Giving life to Creative Life...

Facebook designers write to honor women...

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Giving life to Creative Life...

Facebook designers write to honor women...

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Process vs. Practice...

Change management is not about writing a bunch of
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establish new operating practices for…...

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Designer by day, drag queen by design...

The value of passion projects for creatives...

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Designer by day, drag queen by design...

The value of passion projects for creatives...

Inside Figma: tips from the team that
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Best practices and templates from Figmates across
teams...

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A journey through the ages: Atlassian
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How we Brought 2020 Wrapped to Life in
the Mobile App...

Every December, millions of Spotify users around the
world experience Spotify Wrapped, and reflect on
their audio habits from the past…...

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Crafting Aha! Moments: Lessons from Live
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As creatives, we tend to draw inspiration from the
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The intersection of design and science...

How a team of designers, scientists, developers, and
engineers worked together to create a truly unique
device in Echo Show 10....

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Grow your design career as an individual
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Career growth might not be linear. If it isn’t, what
other shape can it take?...

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Grow your design career as an individual
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Career growth might not be linear. If it isn’t, what
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(Still) Working Alone Together...

Observations and management approaches as we
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Designing for crisis...

5 learnings from developing trauma-informed
products...

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Navigating Whiteness, Part 1...

A product design manager unpacks
whiteness — power centered in white people — and
how it manifests in design, media, and his own life....

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Behind the Design: Facilitating design
discussions through tables...

A lo-fi technique to distill information, see more at
once, focus discussion, and work through design
complexities....

Pillars of Digital Product Design • Slack
Design...

A crash course in understanding the basics of what it
takes to design user-centered digital products
successfully in our highly digital age....

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What does data look like to you?...

Metrics often seem inherently factual, but they have
shortcomings too. Data comes in diverse forms....

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How I programmatically built 256 new
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A look into how automatization can supercharge the
design process in Figma...

Sprinting Ahead - Library - Google Design...

How Design Sprints became the way Google—and
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Design Inspiration, 2.05...

Interesting links found and shared by Medium’s
design team...

Amazon Design Supports Cooper Hewitt’s
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Amazon Design partners with Cooper Hewitt to
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Amazon’s commitment to design
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Come one, come all...

Amazon Design sponsors 2021 Interaction Awards...

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Grow your Design Career as an Individual
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Change can offer an opportunity to reflect. Right
now, many people are asking: “How can I make the
most of what’s going on in the world to…...

We took our biggest live event
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Every year, Slack Frontiers, our annual flagship
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Designer and journalist Cliff Kuang shares an excerpt
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Inside Figma: a case study on strict null
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A look at how we identify and address bugs...

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Part two of the long and winding design road that
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released...

Google Design’s Best of 2020 - Library -
Google Design...

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

Redesigning Dropbox’s ways of working ...

How the team moved to a virtual-first model...

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Give with Microsoft Bing...

How your web searches empower everyday giving...

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Designing Data Science Tools at Spotify...

Learn how a product designer built usable,
well-designed tools to help data scientists transform
a mass of raw data into valuable insights....

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Design X Design: Advice for New
Designers...

This is an installment of our blog’s recurring series,
Design x design. Members of the Pinterest design
team — designers, writers…...

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Design X Design: Advice for New
Designers...

This is an installment of our blog’s recurring series,
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team — designers, writers…...

Souvlaki, Playful Puns, and Logging Off -
Library - Google Design...

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

Meet us in the browser...

Reflections from co-founder and CEO Dylan Field on
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Designing For A Cash Experience...

What cash trips in Mexico taught me about designing
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The New Normal...

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It takes two (designers) to tango
(remotely) • Slack Design...

Product designer McKenna Lowry and content
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Building a Design System Library...

How we created the Lyft Product Language attributes
and component libraries...

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How we run design-led UX research at
Lyft...

Design with empathy for our drivers and riders...

Adding it all up: the math behind
designing your career...

How to think about the 90,000 hours you spend at
work...

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Reinventing Online Shopping on Microsoft
Edge...

Helping shoppers save time and money with an
intelligent browser...

Stop searching for the perfect word...

Three UX writing strategies to get unstuck when you
just can't seem to find the right words....

Exploring Color on Google Maps - Library -
Google Design...

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

Behind the feature: the making of the
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The evolution of Auto Layout and more on the latest
version...

Beneath the Surface - Library - Google
Design...

Google Seed Studio shares the inspiration behind
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5 Things I Wish I’d Known Before Starting
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Sure, this is the Spotify Design Medium, and I dive a
little into engineering in the article below — but
design systems are…...

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That’s a Great Idea: How to Help
Introverts Be Heard in Meetings...

What introverts can teach us about better meeting
design...

More Human Ambiance in Ambient
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How to make ambient computing work—for people...

Designers Make, Product Managers Bake...

How designers can think like PMs to embrace
iteration and fast-forward user feedback....

Variable Fonts Are Here to Stay - Library -
Google Design...

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

Bridging design and code with Variants...

Today we're launching Variants and updates to the
Inspect panel to power up your design system...

Behind the feature: the hidden challenges
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The technical challenges of updating our autosave
system...

Introducing Tyrus...

Our free digital toolkit for freelance illustrators...

Fresh Eyes Audits: Your key to better UX
design...

A simplified heuristics evaluation can help improve
even the smallest parts of how users experience your
product....

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Why We Start with User Problem
Statements at Pinterest...

You can’t solve a problem if you don’t know what the
problem is...

pinterest.design

Why We Start with User Problem
Statements at Pinterest...

You can’t solve a problem if you don’t know what the
problem is...

medium.com/spotify-design

Designing a Spotify Studios Podcast with
Dissect...

Behind the Scenes is a new Spotify Design series that
offers an inside look at creating experiences at
Spotify....

design.lyft.com

The Five Things I learned doing Service
Design at Lyft...

I started as the first service designer at Lyft on the
Voice of Customer team. I’ve had the great
opportunity to practice this craft for…...

Here, There, and Everywhere - Library -
Google Design...

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

How Kimberly-Clark brings your favorite
paper products into your home...

A look inside their digital presence...

Learning and failing as a team...

Watch the breakout sessions from Config Europe...

Threads in Slack: A Long Design Journey
(Part 1 of 2) • Slack Design...

This is the story of designing Threads, and how much
we underestimated its complexity. It’s also a deep
dive into the design process at Slack....

Reflections on Figma’s inaugural Student
Fellowship...

What Figma Fellows accomplished, and our plans for
next year...

Power up your design system with
Figma’s agency partners...

Learn more about the eight agencies we’ve
partnered with...

Creating moments of connection...

Watch the closing keynote from our virtual user
conference, Config Europe ...

medium.com/microsoft-design

Behind the Design: Xbox Controller...

How these control freaks leveled up our new wireless
controller...

Absolutely FAB - Library - Google Design...

How the Floating Action Button became a Material
Design icon...

The year of interning remotely...

An unprecedented summer. A tremendous testament
to grit and determination....

Building an open and inclusive design
process...

Takeaways from Config Europe...

medium.com/microsoft-design

Behind the Design: Xbox Series X and
Xbox Series S...

Why these designers had to be in the room where it
happens...

Simulating Intelligence - Library - Google
Design...

Techniques for prototyping machine learning systems
across products and features...

When fonts fall...

A deep-dive into font fallback...

Introducing Quicksand...

Explore our new film series on overcoming creative
adversity....

Six integrations to help your product
team collaborate in Figma...

How Figma works with tools like Confluence and
Avocode...

Inside Figma: my time as a new grad...

Advice on finding the right role and making the
transition to the working world...

The many dimensions of trust in design...

How trust powers open design, and more takeaways
from Config Europe...

medium.com/asana-design

Asana Product Design’s North Star...

As the Asana Product Design team, we created a
North Star....

medium.com/microsoft-design

Beautiful Intelligence...

Art direction meets AI in a growing library of
beautiful, expressive content within Microsoft 365...

Embracing the tension between code and
design...

New features that bring the best of both worlds to
design systems in Figma...

design.lyft.com

Meaning and purpose on Design Teams
with Audrey Liu, VP Design — Lyft...

Podcast by Cells and Pixels...

On pitching and presenting...

How to create and deliver a great presentation...

Communication as a design problem •
Slack Design...

Designers are natural communicators — we
communicate complex product behaviors via layouts,
colors, interactions, and more. Yet workplace comm......

Three Designers Walk Into a Virtual
Conversation… - Library - Google Design...

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....

medium.com/pinterest-studio

From brain science to quantitative UX...

Career lessons and observations for starting off in
the UX field...

pinterest.design

From brain science to quantitative UX...

Career lessons and observations for starting off in
the UX field...

Figma’s new EMEA HQ...

We're opening an office in London to better support
users in EMEA...

Making Design Within Reach for online
shoppers...

Bringing the brick-and-mortar experience online...

Reimagining art direction in the remote
work era • Slack Design...

When COVID hit, the creative team suddenly lost
access to our photo studio, as well as all the fantastic
sets and pieces we had planned to shoot with for Q......

Creating multi-brand design systems...

Learnings about building and maintaining design
systems...

medium.com/dropbox-design

Take back your day with a meeting
manifesto...

Suffer from meeting fatigue? Here’s how to control
the madness....

Contrary to Popular Belief - Library -
Google Design...

A personal tale of managing your career by molding
your character...

Inside Figma: enterprise, explained...

A behind-the-scenes look at Figma’s enterprise
product team...

React at 60fps: improving scrolling
comments in Figma...

A behind-the-scenes look at how we improved
comment performance in the Figma editor...

Towards Resilient Systems - Library -
Google Design...

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

How we use Figma templates to facilitate
collaboration at Shopify...

A framework for project managing in Figma...

An open letter about my gap year...

Student Fellow Abigail Africa shares advice from
mentors and reflects on the value of education...

medium.com/designing-atlassian

Our new home for Atlassian Design
System ✨...

The Atlassian Design System Team is pleased to
announce that our new home for Atlassian Design
System is now live at atlassian.design…...

How work is changing at Figma...

Sharing our approach to a new way of working...

Closing the Experience Gap...

3 ways to use research to build more inclusive
products...

Explore the Figma Community...

Six creators share the inspiration behind their files...

Inside Figma: reflections on a remote
internship...

A software engineering intern gives us a look into her
time at Figma...

Rehearsing the Future - Library - Google
Design...

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

medium.com/designing-atlassian

Content design for user onboarding...

How to design content that will help people adopt
your product...

Announcing Config Europe: a call for
speakers...

Submit your ideas for talks and workshops at Config
Europe, a virtual conference....

Behind the feature: shedding light on
shadow spread...

An engineer's journey making hard decisions about
(seemingly) simple feature requests...

A deep dive on deep search...

A behind-the-scenes look at how we built deep
search...

Is It Good Design? Well, Yeah. - Library -
Google Design...

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

Thank You Jamazonians...

Amazon + Adobe Creative Jam...

medium.com/deliveroo-design

Ever wondered what your designs would
look like in another language?...

How often have you heard “It does not fit in, this
language is too long”, “just release in English, we will
get the translations later” or…...

2020 Material Design Awards - Library -
Google Design...

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

medium.com/uber-design

Where to? The journey to Uber’s
iconography...

If a photo is worth a thousand words then an icon is
worth at least a dozen....

medium.com/deliveroo-design

How to understand your Design System’s
health, and eventually, its success....

How might we communicate the value of our design
system? How do we measure success? These are the
questions that occupy the minds of many…...

medium.com/pinterest-studio

The English language: A guideline for how
not to make a design system...

One of the major challenges of system design is
communicating the rationale of decisions — why you
landed on certain choices, and why they…...

medium.com/dropbox-design

Designing with letters...

A story of collaboration: How writing and design
joined forces to create a power publication for
Sundance Film Festival...

medium.com/dropbox-design

PUT IT IN YOUR OWN WORDS...

How to find your voice and set it free...

Designing teamwork: How our customers
shaped the future of Slack • Slack Design...

Today, we’re launching a significant update to Slack’s
design. It’s not just one change, but a constellation of
them—some shiny new things (channel sections!), ......

Tips for running a remote design sprint •
Slack Design...

Many teams, including ours at Slack, have found
themselves suddenly working remotely, figuring out
how best to communicate and get things done whe......

Accessibility, a powerful design tool •
Slack Design...

When given the choice between an accessible
bathroom or a non-accessible one, many people
would pick the accessible one: there’s more space, ......

Design feedback 101: An interview with
Carla Gonzales • Slack Design...

Carla Gonzales is a Staff Product Designer at Slack,
on the Lifecycle team. In this interview with the Slack
Design + Research blog, she shares her strategies f......

Turning a digital brand into a real-world
experience • Slack Design...

Rosie Bubb is a Communication Designer at Slack.
She designs material and experiences for events —
including Frontiers, Slack’s conference exploring th......

Design, leadership, and ambiguity: An
interview with Diógenes Brito • Slack D......

Diógenes Brito was one of the first members of
Slack’s product design team and is currently a Senior
Product Designer for Slack’s Platform. In this intervi......

On writing for deprecation • Slack Design...

There’s something magical about writing the copy for
a new feature and then unveiling it for an eager
audience. As a product writer or content strategist, ......

Amazon Design Education + TAF = STEMD...

Amazon Design Education Program Partners with the
Technology Access Foundation...

medium.com/dropbox-design

Distributed Sprints Kit...

At Dropbox, we work in a distributed fashion across
multiple countries all over the world. Although we try
to make sure our team members…...

YouTube Sans: The Making of a Typeface -
Library - Google Design...

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

medium.com/dropbox-design

Community powered by Design Ops...

How the Design Ops team at Dropbox team takes a
strategic approach to people-centered problems...

medium.com/dropbox-design

Overcoming a fear of public speaking...

Public speaking is a valuable professional skill, but it
doesn’t come naturally to most people....

medium.com/dropbox-design

Building diverse design communities...

Tips from the creators of Blacks Who Design, Latinxs
Who Design, and Women Who Design...

medium.com/dropbox-design

Accessibility: more than just contrast
ratio...

I was 12 years old when I first saw the word
accessibility. I had a Windows XP PC and I loved
exploring all of the menus and settings....

Design Notes: AI-Mediated Art - Library -
Google Design...

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

Designing for a changing world...

Inside our mission to revamp the product for shifting
consumer needs ...

A Guide to Research Methodologies...

Part of the job of a design researcher is making sure
everyone on the product team is comfortable
participating in, and even conducting…...

A New Interaction Language - Library -
Google Design...

Five years of research went into developing Soli, a
miniature radar chip that detects motion and
understands nonverbal cues. The team behind the ......

Talk to Me: The Evolution of Emoji -
Library - Google Design...

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

Design Notes: Making Mistakes on
Purpose - Library - Google Design...

How Illustrator Laurie Rosenwald uses chaos to
create creative potential...

medium.com/deliveroo-design

How an Internship changed my career in
six months...

It’s never too late to make the switch...

Amazon Design at Interaction 20...

Amazon Design Sponsors Ixda Interaction Week 2020
Student Design Charette...

medium.com/uber-design

What do I want to do with my c̶a̶r̶e̶e̶r̶ life?...

A design manager’s guide to jumpstart career
conversations with your team....

Design Influencer...

CREATIVE DIRECTOR ALESSANDRO MICHELE WRITES
A NEW STORY FOR GUCCI...

WHAT MAKES THEM DIFFERENT...

ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND MONEY....

Anxiety and Depression...

A PROBLEM AMONG GEN ZERS...

medium.com/uber-design

Ten things I’ve learned as a UX researcher
at Uber...

I joined Uber in July 2016 as the first member of our
Bangalore-based UX team. I was one of the earliest
researchers at the company…...

Why Google Needs Art Directors - Library
- Google Design...

… according to Google art directors...

Design Notes: Virtual Couture - Library -
Google Design...

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

Calling all Illustrators...

Collaborate on a quick survey to help shape a
community-driven project ...

medium.com/deliveroo-design

From employee to contractor and back
again...

Three reasons I decided to come full circle...

While obsessing to win customer hearts,
creative team wins international Penta......

Behind every consumables private brand is the
passion to delight ...

Forecasting the Future...

Eleven in-house creative leaders tell us what’s next
for design in 2020 ...

medium.com/deliveroo-design

What is content design?...

People are still asking....

Refreshing Chrome - Library - Google
Design...

Talking to the designers behind Chrome’s biggest
revamp yet...

Design Notes: The Creative Possibilities
of Identity - Library - Google Design...

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

Ten Minutes With Cecilia Yang...

What makes the design leader tick ...

Google Design’s Best of 2019 - Library -
Google Design...

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

Jon Madison, Senior Design Technologist for Amazon
Search, is a photography and music aficionado. He
incorporates the mantra "art without an audience d......

Design Notes: Bringing Material Design to
Life - Library - Google Design...

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

medium.com/deliveroo-design

deliveroo.design presents: not your
average design leadership event...

As a recruiter, I’ve attended more Design events
than I could count. Some more memorable than
others..! Across various offices, themes and…...

The Power of Visioning - Library - Google
Design...

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

Calling all Creatives...

A first look at Airbnb's multidisciplinary fellowship
program ...

Words of Welcome...

With 62 supported languages worldwide, Airbnb
reaches even more native speakers...

Evolving by Design...

Two newly appointed creative leaders on the next
chapter at Airbnb...

medium.com/deliveroo-design

Content design inspiration from a chicken
suit in a dry cleaners...

The best ideas can come from where you’d least
expect them....

Documenting Space and Place...

Design Week Mexico unites craft and culture...

medium.com/uber-design

Creating workplace support for parents
doesn’t have to break the time or mone......

By: Brook Sattler, Vince de Asis, Caitlin Thakral, and
Amy Hooey...

Five Lessons in Managing Ambiguity -
Library - Google Design...

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

Designing the Future...

Design Week Mexico’s Inédito program celebrates
work that makes a social impact...

Design Notes: The Creative Animus -
Library - Google Design...

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

As a Senior Art Director for AWS and a cellist, Britt
Barran-Stanley explores the parallels of delighting
customers through storytelling to that of delighting ......

One of Amy Armock's, Amazon Device Design
Group's UX design director, many passions includes
building a diverse pipeline of future designers and ......

Backstories/02: Janet Galore...

Janet Galore, Creative Director for Amazon Shopping
Design, joins Amazon Music's Principal Creative
Director, Xerxes Irani for an in-studio chat about he......

Amy Jimenez Marquez's role as the design manager
for the Alexa Personality Team is a culmination of her
multitude of experience and education in theatre....

Backstories/01: Janet Galore...

Janet Galore, Creative Director for Amazon Shopping
Design, joins Amazon Music's Principal Creative
Director, Xerxes Irani for an in-studio chat about he......

2019 Material Design Award Winners -
Library - Google Design...

Recognizing best-in-class designs from around the
community...

Worldly Workspaces...

Approaching interior design through a cultural lens...

Design Notes: Celebrating Awkwardness -
Library - Google Design...

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

Aparten estas fechas en sus calendarios...

¡Airbnb Design llega a Design Week México!...

Capturing the Bigger Picture ...

A grassroots approach to photographing the world...

medium.com/deliveroo-design

Fuzzies, matches, new words…How to set
up your translation memories correctly...

What’s a translation memory?...

Design Notes: Extending Creativity -
Library - Google Design...

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

medium.com/uber-design

The Power of Insights: A
behind-the-scenes look at the new insig......

In the late 20th century, the dominant technological
question was “How do we learn better?” In the early
21st, that question has been…...

medium.com/uber-design

Uber Design Platform...

This morning, I took a Jump bike to my office in San
Francisco. As I write this, an Uber driver in Bangkok is
taking a customer home on a…...

SPAN 2019: Brooklyn - Library - Google
Design...

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

Making Connections Through Music...

Toronto’s Del Mahabadi uses concerts to build
community ...

In Dialogue—With Our Devices - Library -
Google Design...

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

medium.com/uber-design

77 Things about Uber Design...

A behind-the-scenes look at what went into the book...

Defining Design Generalists...

Exploring the skill set of an underrated superpower...

Into the Dark - Library - Google Design...

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

Championing Research...

The UXRC team chats with Product Specialist
Manager Mandy Owen....

Driving Greater Diversity in Design...

As “the most customer-centric company,” Amazon is
making long-term investments in Design diversity....

Who is Home?...

Insights from Pi Issue 01 Love. Life. Home....

Introducing Pi // Patterns & Insights...

A bi-annual printed broadsheet published by Amazon
designers for Amazon designers....

AI and Design: Putting People First -
Library - Google Design...

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

I/O 2019: Our Definitive Guide to Design -
Library - Google Design...

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

Open to Interpretation...

How an Amazon designer turned his disability into an
advantage....

A Holiday of Play...

Unwrapping Amazon's first-ever holiday gift
lookbook....

ADC Executive Producer Corey Dangel's hobbies—all
involving creative problem solving and craft—make
him better at his job....

A New Religion for Designers - Library -
Google Design...

Technologist John Maeda on the changing relationship
between design and development...

Puzzling Chaos...

Airbnb Design—Talks featuring Enigmatist and
Magician David Kwong...

Trusting Driverless Cars - Library - Google
Design...

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

The Amazing Women Behind Alexa...

Meet seven women tackling some of the most
complex challenges in technology....

medium.com/asana-design

Why I joined Asana: Sara Kremer, Product
Design Manager...

Sara Kremer is a Product Design Manager in our San
Francisco office. Her passion for teamwork and
collaboration shows up not just in how…...

Systems Thinking, Unlocked...

Building an inclusive design language system...

Connecting Through Sound...

Creating Amazon's pioneering voice service for the
home—and other shared environments....

Sr. Interaction Designer Sarita Schaffer made her
foray into systems thinking and UX design through
community farming....

Backstories/01: Jae Park...

Jae Park, Former VP UX Design for Amazon Devices,
joins Principal Designer Xerxes Irani for an in-studio
chat about his career path and customer-centric ap......

Classically trained animator and Sr. UX Motion
Designer Olivia Janik pursues a rich mix of digital and
analog art....

This is Amazon Design...

An exciting world of creative opportunity—and
always so much to do. Join us!...

IxDA 2019: Interaction 19, Seattle...

Design in the Wild: Amazon Design partners with
IxDA to mount the world's largest design industry
conference....

Sr. UX Motion Designer David Jara finds deep
satisfaction in doing things with his hands—including
classic Corvette things. ...

On the Way to OneDesign...

Chapter 1: Crafting a unified design language for
Amazon, starting with our growing device family....

Conflux Q2 2018: Matt Menz...

The history of wayfinding, cartography, and abstract
mapping as prelude to modern UX....

Principal Sound Designer Chris Seifert sees Amazon
Design growing, and getting better, at the same
time....

The Art of Conflux...

Amazon creatives produce vibrant collateral
celebrating our various thought leadership
events—and their craft....

San Francisco Bay swimmer and Amazon Sr.
Producer, Sarah Glazer, seeks out epic challenges in
every aspect of her life....

Her hobby—collecting hobbies—helps satisfy Sr. UX
Designer Luz Bratcher's deep desire to try new
things....

For Seattle-based Creative Director Scott Boggan, a
lot of maintaining a work–life balance is getting off
the grid....

Going Full Circle...

How fresh, design-led thinking produced the lovable
Echo Spot....

Designed Chaos...

Building the visual identity for season two of Airbnb
Design—Talks...

Google Design’s Best of 2018 - Library -
Google Design...

Our annual review highlights the year’s noteworthy
design projects...

SPAN x Design Notes, Episodes 16-20 -
Library - Google Design...

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

“Am I Interesting Enough?”...

A Type B’s guide to workplace harmony...

Method Podcast, Episode 19 - Library -
Google Design...

Two UX designers on how research fuels Google Job
Search...

Six AI Terms UXers Should Know - Library
- Google Design...

Clear and simple definitions of essential concepts...

Design Notes, Episode 15 - Library -
Google Design...

Identity designer Jesse Reed on the lasting power of
brand standards...

Breaking the Conventional...

Airbnb Design—Talks makes Beijing debut with
Architect Shuhei Aoyama...

Method Podcast, Episode 18 - Library -
Google Design...

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

Ciao! Bonjour! Hello! Kon’nichiwa!...

Crafting global content that travels with you...

medium.com/twitter-design-research

Trick, treat, tremble...

A collection of some of our darkest dreads...

2018 Material Design Award Winners -
Library - Google Design...

Recognizing best-in-class designs from the
community...

Design Notes, Episode 14 - Library -
Google Design...

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

Listen to the Best of SPAN 2017 - Library -
Google Design...

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

Designer Spotlight...

Experience Design Manager Jennifer Hom featured in
WIRED...

Your Face Here...

Creating illustration guidelines for a more inclusive
visual identity...

青山周平——打破常规...

Breaking the conventional with Architect Shuhei
Aoyama...

Method Podcast, Episode 17 - Library -
Google Design...

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

Putting Users at the Heart of a Global
Design Sprint - Library - Google Design...

Best practices for collaboration...

medium.com/twitter-design-research

Let’s have a Chat...

Creating a culture of continuous learning...

Control and Simplicity in the Age of AI -
Library - Google Design...

How Google Clips found the right balance between
familiarity and functionality...

Design Notes, Episode 13 - Library -
Google Design...

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

From Pixel to Place...

Exploring digital and offline design during London
Design Festival...

SPAN Helsinki: Meet Our Speakers...

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

Method Podcast, Episode 16 - Library -
Google Design...

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

medium.com/twitter-design-research

Guerrilla research...

Going beyond A/B testing to see our email designs at
work...

Plus Personality...

New interior design standards celebrate curation and
personalization...

Maker’s Profile...

Installation artist Rachel Mica Weiss gives materials
life in unexpected ways...

Designing for Duality...

Alex Schleifer talks changing structure, cities, and
systems with Habitus...

Method Podcast, Episode 15 - Library -
Google Design...

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

Design Notes, Episode 12 - Library -
Google Design...

Illustrator Libby VanderPloeg explores the
relationship between art and artist...

AI Is Design’s Latest Material - Library -
Google Design...

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

Designing for Global Accessibility, Part II -
Library - Google Design...

Context matters...

Meet Airbnb Cereal...

A new typeface that takes us from button to billboard...

Values-Driven Design...

How conscious creatives balance beauty and
belonging...

Method Podcast, Episode 14 - Library -
Google Design...

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

A recap of our Content Strategy team’s
unconventional dining experiences at the Confab
conference...

Hot Type, Always Fresh - Library - Google
Design...

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

Milan Design Week...

Lead Interior Designer Rebecca Ruggles talks top
trends of 2018...

medium.com/twitter-design-research

Curing World Cup Fever...

A quick glimpse of how we Tweeted it at work...

Design Notes, Episode 11 - Library -
Google Design...

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

medium.com/twitter-design-research

All in Sync: How our designers keep up
with the latest design system assets...

Horizon Design System, Part 2...

Photo Mixtape No. 7...

Trading urbanism for tranquility in Tanzania...

Method Podcast, Episode 13 - Library -
Google Design...

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

First: Raters - Library - Google Design...

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

Designing Google Maps for Motorbikes -
Library - Google Design...

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

Design Notes, Episode 10 - Library -
Google Design...

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

Airbnb Design—Talks...

Season Two: When Chaos Is Your Creative Director...

Modernizing Arabic Type for a Digital
Audience - Library - Google Design...

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

Exposition of Chaos...

An Airbnb Design installation at SF Design Week
2018...

Method Podcast, Episode 12 - Library -
Google Design...

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

Designer Spotlight...

Design Manager Vivian Wang recognized in Fast
Company's 'Most Creative People in Business' issue...

15 Interviews to Google - Library - Google
Design...

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

medium.com/twitter-design-research

Designing Timestamps for Live Video...

Share the most important moment as it happens...

Design Notes, Episode 9 - Library - Google
Design...

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

Introducing Airbnb Cereal...

A new typeface that takes us from button to billboard...

Working Type...

How we introduced Airbnb Cereal to our UI ...

Erasing the Lines...

How Airbnb Concerts connect artists and audience...

Airbnb Design Fellowships 2018...

Announcing creative opportunities for new graduates...

Making More with Material - Library -
Google Design...

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

I/O 2018: Our Definitive Guide to Design -
Library - Google Design...

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

Method Podcast, Episode 11 - Library -
Google Design...

UX Researcher Todd Hausman shares career lessons
and research tips...

Leveraging Creative Hacks...

How the Airbnb community inspired a global check-in
tool...

medium.com/twitter-design-research

Twitter Tours: A Day In The Life Of A
London Designer...

Hello and welcome to Twitter UK!...

Leading by Design - Library - Google
Design...

AIGA recognizes Google’s commitment to design
excellence...

Designing (and Learning From) a
Teachable Machine - Library - Google De......

UX insights on designing simple, accessible
interfaces for teaching computers...

Unlocking Extraordinary Hospitality...

Helping hosts shine through the product...

Design Notes, Episode 8 - Library - Google
Design...

Deeplocal CEO Nathan Martin on punk rock and
authenticity...

Speaking of… Life Paths...

Content Strategist Amy Gurka talks seeking growth
over glamour...

Photo Mixtape No. 6...

A visual narrative of Australia’s wondrous outdoors...

Method Podcast, Episode 10 - Library -
Google Design...

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

Easy Let-Downs...

How to deliver uncomfy news...

The Evolution of Tools...

Closing the loop with Design Intelligence...

Designing Airbnb for Everyone...

A 21st century company, designed for and with the
community...

Design for Offline - Library - Google
Design...

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

Predictably Smart - Library - Google
Design...

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

Speaking of… Life Paths...

Values-led career wayfinding with Research Manager
Anne Diaz...

The Designer’s Guide to Accessibility
Research - Library - Google Design...

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

Design Notes, Episode 7 - Library - Google
Design...

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

Boundary Breakers...

A celebration of five female artists that are
shattering the status quo...

Designing End-to-End Experiences...

Alex Schleifer talks trust, community and the value of
cohesive marketing with Movidiam...

The New Wave of Indian Type - Library -
Google Design...

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

Method Podcast, Episode 9 - Library -
Google Design...

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

Fair Is Not the Default - Library - Google
Design...

Why building inclusive tech takes more than good
intentions...

Design Notes, Episode 6 - Library - Google
Design...

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

Creative Evolution No. 11...

Tapping our way to LA with dancers Chloé and Maud
Arnold ...

Creative Space Chicago...

A recap of our intimate evening with tattoo artist
David Allen...

The Making of YouTube Go - Library -
Google Design...

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

Method Podcast, Episode 8 - Library -
Google Design...

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

The UX of AI - Library - Google Design...

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

Choosing Web Fonts: A Beginner’s Guide -
Library - Google Design...

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

medium.com/twitter-design-research

The Books that Shaped Us...

In researching the best design books out there, I
found myself unsatisfied with the lists 20+ deep of
design books. I wanted a personal…...

Photo Mixtape No. 5...

A visual playlist from an adventurous escape to
Thailand...

Video: Design Is [Vision] - Library - Google
Design...

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

Method Podcast, Episode 7 - Library -
Google Design...

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

Reflecting Identity...

A recap of our immersive gallery experience with
Joshua Kissi...

medium.com/twitter-design-research

A Summer of Ink 🤘...

A look back at our summer poster challenge...

Google Design’s Best of 2017 - Library -
Google Design...

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

medium.com/etsy-design

Make design history...

How to be a better designer by documenting your
work quickly and effectively...

medium.com/twitter-design-research

Looking to Horizon: Why We Built A
Design System...

Horizon Design System, Part 1...

Spectral: A New Screen-First Typeface -
Library - Google Design...

Production Type introduces their latest commission
for Google Fonts...

Method Podcast, Episode 6 - Library -
Google Design...

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

Designing SPAN 2017 - Library - Google
Design...

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

Design Notes, Episode 3 - Library - Google
Design...

Fashion designers Lizzy and Darlene Okpo...

Scripting Cyrillic - Library - Google Design...

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

Designing for Access...

Creating new features for guests with disabilities...

Sketch, Scroll, or Swipe? - Library -
Google Design...

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

Method Podcast, Episode 5 - Library -
Google Design...

Creative Director Rachel Been on Material Design,
new emoji, and the creative power of curiosity...

Revealing the Invisible - Library - Google
Design...

Using design to reshape how we experience data...

Design Notes, Episode 2 - Library - Google
Design...

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

Video: Design Is [Emotion] - Library -
Google Design...

Pamela Pavliscak on the complexity of designing for
human emotions...

The New Industrialists - Library - Google
Design...

Mapping the intersection of tech and design in
Pittsburgh...

Sketching Interfaces...

Generating code from low fidelity wireframes...

Survey Methods: Connecting with a Global
Audience - Library - Google Design...

Strategies and best practices for conducting UX
surveys...

Method Podcast, Episode 4 - Library -
Google Design...

Learn about design systems and digital tools from
Firebase Interaction Designer Roman Nurik...

First Day to First Launch...

The first 60 days as a design associate at Airbnb...

Environments Spotlight...

Behind the scenes of our expanded San Francisco
office with Dezeen...

Video: Design Is [Immersive] - Library -
Google Design...

Marsha Haverty investigates how to make gestures
and actions more familiar...

Design Notes, Episode 1 - Library - Google
Design...

Talbot & Yoon discuss designing objects that
encourage play...

Team Spotlight...

Our Experience Designer Salih Abdul-Karim featured
on Design Details...

Beyond Desktop Research: The Immersion
Trip - Library - Google Design...

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

Material Design Awards 2017 - Library -
Google Design...

Recognizing best-in-class designs from around the
community...

Video: Design Is [Smart] - Library - Google
Design...

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

Method Podcast, Episode 3 - Library -
Google Design...

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

medium.com/etsy-design

Ready When You Are...

How to share your work fearlessly...

The Future of Lottie...

Our community-driven vision for our animation tool...

Modern Pictograms for Lottie...

Our collaboration with the The Noun Project on
open-source animated icons...

Conversation Design: Speaking the Same
Language - Library - Google Design...

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

Method Podcast, Episode 2 - Library -
Google Design...

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

Spotlighting Another Lens...

Fast Company features our latest open source project...

Examining Another Lens...

Encouraging cross-discipline collaboration through
Open Source ...

Unpacking Shadow to Light...

Behind the scenes of our San Francisco Design Week
installation...

Announcing Another Lens...

A research tool for conscientious creatives...

Fabulous: Motivating App Engagement -
Library - Google Design...

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

Building for China...

Three lessons learned from designing for a new
market ...

Video: Design Is [Simulation] - Library -
Google Design...

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

California: Designing Freedom - Library -
Google Design...

A new exhibition explores the utopian promise of
West Coast design...

Video: Design Is [Ethical] - Library -
Google Design...

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

Photo Mixtape No. 4...

A visual playlist for discovering Antigua’s creative
culture...

Designer Spotlight...

The Design Kids profiles Airbnb designer and
illustrator Meredith Schomburg...

Method Podcast, Episode 1 - Library -
Google Design...

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

Video: Design Is [Multicultural] - Library -
Google Design...

Senongo Akpem explores the boundaries of culturally
responsive design...

medium.com/etsy-design

Crafting an Effective Working Group...

Working together to solve complex, cross-functional
problems...

Shadow to Light...

An installation with a hidden narrative...

Airbnb Welcome...

Open your home to someone in need...

Taking the Leap...

How to get a research job out of grad school...

medium.com/etsy-design

Creating Etsy’s Design Principles...

Aligning on a shared definition of design excellence...

medium.com/etsy-design

Making Etsy Studio...

Designing a human-centered business...

Content Strategy at Airbnb...

Building our practice...

Building Better Design Culture - Library -
Google Design...

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

Launching 爱彼迎 (Ai Bi Ying)...

Behind the scenes of our latest brand launch film...

Airbnb Design Fellowships...

Announcing 2017 new graduate opportunities...

Video: Design Is [Human] - Library -
Google Design...

Gretchen Anderson on making products
human-centered at scale...

Own Your Voice...

Airbnb Design—Talk featuring Kiran Gandhi...

Painting with Code...

Introducing our new open source library React
Sketch.app...

Creative Evolution No. 10...

Architect Michael Caton on designing interpretive
communal spaces...

Meet the Creatives Podcast...

Alex Schleifer discusses how to land a design job with
no experience...

Video: Design Is [Helpful] - Library -
Google Design...

Google's Nandini Stocker examines the evolution of
speech interfaces...

medium.com/etsy-design

Etsy + Tent London...

Bringing an online experience into the real world...

Speaking Volumes - Library - Google
Design...

Best practices for designing a brand in VR...

Asana: Productivity with Personality -
Library - Google Design...

Making to-dos more doable with color and character...

Insider Tips...

Our Director of Experience Design Katie Dill shares
our interview process...

Sticky Conversations - Library - Google
Design...

Allo sticker sets balance the universal and unique...

No Such Thing as Offline - Library - Google
Design...

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

Five Finger Discount History...

Airbnb Design—Talks featuring sound artist Christine
Sun Kim...

Guide to SPAN Tokyo - Library - Google
Design...

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

Model Citizens...

Designer Walé Oyéjidé reflects upon the immigrant
experience through clothing...

Measuring Magic...

How we turned an elusive vision into a functional
product...

Born Between Borders...

RSVP for our 2/21 talk featuring clothing designer
Walé Oyéjidé...

Creative Space Beijing...

A warm welcome from China's design community...

Behind the scenes of our new open-source animation
tool...

Redefining Boundaries No. 1...

Photojournalist Lynsey Addario captures quiet
moments in conflict zones...

Introducing Lottie...

Our new open-source tool makes adding animation to
native apps a snap...

A Home Between Places...

Opening doors to counter closed borders ...

Prototyping for Hosts...

How a tool for engineers became integral to the
design process...

Design Spotlight...

Google highlights our Design Language System...

Airbnb: Communicating Clarity and Charm
- Library - Google Design...

How a trusted travel app plays host to a growing,
global community...

Moderating the Back Room...

A strategic tool for experience researchers...

medium.com/etsy-design

Etsy’s Evolving Icon System...

How we systematized and customized our
ever-present icons...

Creative Evolution No. 9...

Archivist and illustrator Grace Danico influences the
future by preserving the past...

Designing a service to support community
collaboration...

In the press...

Wallpaper spotlights our Sobremesa installation at
Design Miami...

The Return of the Travel Poster...

Bringing cities to life through local illustrators...

Sound and Vision - Library - Google
Design...

How the new Pixel phones find depth in the design
details...

Airbnb Expands Beyond the Home...

Welcome to the world of trips...

medium.com/etsy-design

Sandboxes at Etsy...

A Better Experience for Everyone...

DesignOps at Airbnb...

How we manage effective design at scale ...

Volume Two - Library - Google Design...

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

Creative Evolution No. 8...

Off the grid with Offscreen Magazine publisher Kai
Brach...

Design Is Never Done - Library - Google
Design...

Material Design’s new suite of tools and
guidelines—all in one place...

The Art of Presence...

RSVP for our talk featuring artist and urban farmer
Kate Daughdrill on 10/25...

Guide to SPAN LA - Library - Google
Design...

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

Material Design Awards 2016 - Library -
Google Design...

Recognizing best-in-class designs from around the
community...

medium.com/etsy-design

Welcome to Etsy Design...

Allow us the privilege of introducing ourselves....

medium.com/etsy-design

How Etsy Gets Made...

Like many of you, we enjoy making things: trying out
new ideas, building prototypes, and fine-tuning our
work as we go. Etsy is constantly…...

Creative Evolution No. 7...

Philly muralist Michelle Angela Ortiz utilizes public
spaces to inspire social change ...

Alumni Spotlight...

A day in the life of our brand and product designers...

Creative Evolution No. 6...

The community is the canvas for multimedia artist
Keir Johnston...

The Art Behind Android Marshmallow's
New Wallpapers - Library - Google Design...

Carl Kleiner is back with a new set of colorful
"paperscapes"...

In the Press:...

Interface Lovers dives into design process with our
designer Kevin Grennan...

Creative Space Philly...

Experiencing a community through its murals...

for our 10/4 talk featuring artist and designer Nelly
Ben Hayoun...

Creative Space New York...

A recap of our dinner at Brooklyn Grange rooftop
farm...

Co-designing with Hosts...

How collaboration shaped our new mobile experience...

Newsroom Updates...

Fast Company profiles our guest experience...

Making Motion Meaningful - Library -
Google Design...

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

Work–life Balanced...

A tranquil tour of our newly redesigned Tokyo Office...

Evernote: Ideas in Action - Library -
Google Design...

Get to know the Material Design story behind a
popular note-taking app...

The Evolution of Neon...

RSVP for our 9/13 Design Talk featuring pop artist
Todd Sanders...

Airbnb Design—Talks...

Season one: Boundary Breakers...

Guide to スパン SPAN 東京 Tokyo - Library -
Google Design...

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

Creative Evolution No. 5...

London designer Yinka Ilori infuses pithy parables
into furniture...

medium.com/netflix-design

Netflix Design at SXSW 2017!...

We’re coming back to SXSW! Every February, Netflix
Design comes down to Austin TX to meet great
people, learn about new products, eat too…...

Discovering a workflow for app screenshots...

Balancing Friction...

Fresh Tilled Soil chats with our Design Manager Steve
Selzer...

Stay with Me...

How Rio hosts invited the world to their doorstep...

The Uncertainty Principle...

Poetry meets product development...

medium.com/mozilla-opendesign

And then there were five...

Michael Johnson...

Unlocking Los Angeles...

A preview of our Airbnb Open identity system...

From the Ground Up...

Shining a light on how research guides our product
development...

Photo Mixtape No. 3...

A visual mixtape of a musical festival...

Introducing Samara...

A look inside our new in-house design studio...

Creative Evolution No. 4...

Pop Artist Todd Sanders enlightens us on how neon
shaped a nation ...

Defining Product Design...

First Round Review features Alex Schleifer's reflection
on the state of the industry...

Trends in Digital Craft...

Our favorites from Cannes Lions International Festival
of Creativity...

Visualizing Our Unity...

A design-led portrait series for Black Lives Matter...

medium.com/mozilla-opendesign

Tooling up - Library - Google Design...

How a new generation of prototyping tools at Google
will help designers build better software...

Heroine Leadership Podcast...

Our UX leader Katie Dill talks luck and opportunity in
the latest episode...

medium.com/mozilla-opendesign

Going deeper into Mozilla’s identity
problem...

Michael Johnson...

How a community-driven photography effort
transformed our new guest app...

medium.com/mozilla-opendesign

What we’ve learned so far. . . and why we
deserve a dope-slap...

Embracing Uncertainty in UX Research...

Researchers like myself have a nasty habit...

In the Press...

Wallpaper Magazine covers our Tokyo 'House Vision'
exhibition with architect Go Hasegawa...

medium.com/mozilla-opendesign

Our Brand Personality...

medium.com/mozilla-opendesign

Theme 7: The Fight...

medium.com/mozilla-opendesign

Theme 6: For Freedom...

medium.com/mozilla-opendesign

Theme 5: Change Makers...

medium.com/mozilla-opendesign

Theme 4: For Good...

medium.com/mozilla-opendesign

Theme 3: The Protector...

Invisible Design...

Co-Designing with Machines...

Spencer Staley's minimalist style fuses sculpture and
furniture ...

Reimagining Google Fonts - Library -
Google Design...

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...

In the Press:...

Fast Company covers our Open Air product launches...

Photo Mixtape No. 2...

A visual playlist for a desert road trip...

Exploring the maker movement with Rickshaw
Bagworks Founder Mark Dwight...

In the Press...

Fast Company goes under the hood of our new
Airshots Tool...

Storytelling 101...

Keenan Cummings shares tips on how to affect
organizational change by leveraging stories ...

Food for Thought...

How designers and chefs cultivate community...

Building a Visual Language...

Behind the scenes of our new design system...

Co-designing Travel...

How community partnership creates cohesive
experiences...

Robinhood: Investing in Material - Library
- Google Design...

Improving the onboarding experience with motion
and imagery...

Airbnb & Google XX + UX Event...

How designers and chefs cultivate community...

Expressing Brand in Material - Library -
Google Design...

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

Preserving Rituals through Space...

An environments tour of Airbnb's new São Paulo
office...

Design in Tech Recap...

Airbnb and KPCB host John Maeda’s annual design
report...

Words Shape Design...

Writers should be deeply involved in product design...

Best of Brooklyn...

Celebrating the Brooklyn Half Marathon ...

All Aboard for Airbnb Fellowships...

Announcing 2016 student opportunities in design and
film ...

House of Cards...

Why playing cards took center stage in our latest
fellowship project...

Offscreen Magazine...

Joe Gebbia Discusses Designing for Trust with Kai
Brach ...

Creative Evolution No. 3...

Rachel Ryle's playful animations bring travel to life...

Airbnb in Warsaw...

Steve Selzer discusses the future of human-centered
design at MCE...

What’s in a Word?...

Using location context to build better search tools for
travel...

The Way We Build...

How rethinking the Airbnb app changed the way we
approach design...

Introducing our new Airbnb experience...

Setting the Mood...

How film title sequences informed our Apple TV
onboarding ...

Techies Project...

Our designer Jeany Ngo shares her untraditional path
into design...

Capturing Community in Place...

A first look at our new Singapore Office ...

The Lonely City...

Creative Evolution No. 2...

Rocker Emily Wolfe finds her sound...

Airbnb in Helsinki...

Amber Cartwright discusses machine learning at
IxDA...

The Price is Right...

How we used host feedback to build personalized
pricing tools...

How We Design for Trust...

A TEDTalk by Airbnb Co-founder Joe Gebbia...

Artistic Airbnbs...

Alex Schleifer's favorite listing featured in Tech
Insider...

Hosting Hands...

Bringing humanity into Airbnb Open's brand identity
system ...

Arrive Inspired...

Our handpicked guide to the home cities of
celebrated artists...

Airbnb Archives...

A poster tribute to behavioral psychologist Nir Eyal...

The Fiction of No Friction...

Thoughts on the future of human-centered design ...

Designing for Trust...

Observations from my first year at Airbnb...

Keeping Austin Weird...

A local signage tour with Joe Swec ...

Alex Schleifer chats with Design Milk...

Photo Mixtape No. 1...

A visual playlist for an adventure in Japan...

An open factory visit with Joshu + Vela's Noah Guy ...

Creative Evolution No. 1...

Americana-rock duo Jamestown Revival's Austin
homecoming...

Arrive Inspired...

Exploring the best of Austin with local artists...

Playing the Slots...

An internal tool designed to create new office
connections...

Airbnb at SXSW...

Attend Katie Dill's talk on how community
partnership shapes travel...

Brand New - Library - Google Design...

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

Introducing Resizer - Library - Google
Design...

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

Quarterly Newsletter Archive - Library -
Google Design...

Explore past editions of our quarterly email roundup...

medium.com/netflix-design

Netflix MakeIt 2.0: The Socks...

Wearable devices can help simplify your daily chores,
get fit, remind you of everything happening in your
world, and even track sleeping…...

First Edition - Library - Google Design...

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

Evolving the Google Identity - Library -
Google Design...

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

Design from iOS to Android (and Back
Again) - Library - Google Design...

A practical guide to designing across platforms...

Demystifying Density - Library - Google
Design...

Sebastien Gabriel takes one for the team with his
exhaustive guide to DPI & PPI...