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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 does that mean practically? How ......

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 Healthcare, Uber and ......

medium.com/designatmeta

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

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 they’re at least somewhat synon......

medium.com/designatmeta

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

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 Writing...

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 Student Service Design…...

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 world of design and research. L......

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 with Design...

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 FigJam to scale...

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 Design Blog...

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 Blog...

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 realized my calendar wasn’t al......

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 Way...

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 expert | Inside Design Blog...

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 • Slack Design...

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 messages. With clips, you can quickl......

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 Design Blog...

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 Resident, Dr....

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 visual design...

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 Design...

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 of Digital Product Design—b......

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 Berkun | Inside Design Blog...

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 Design Blog...

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 zones | Inside Design Blog...

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

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 materials: if ......

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 | Inside Design Blog...

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

medium.com/design-ibm

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

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 Design?...

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 Design Blog...

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

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 trying to learn a technical sk......

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 Design Blog...

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 designers...

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 designers...

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 global pandemic:
lessons learned...

The IBM Patterns Design Education team had to pivot from
an immersive, in-person program to entirely virtual in a
matter of weeks. That…...

Hey Slack Design — I didn’t go to school for product
design. Will I be able to make it in the industry witho......

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A chat with the sales team about what they've learned and
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Speak up and speak out: A journey on how to
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“Fish forget they’re surrounded by water, and you’re in DEEP
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Emotionality at work...

Microsoft’s new emojis...

What the Fog - Library - Google Design...

How I learned to stop worrying and start dreaming...

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Tips for staying creative and collaborative, while having fun...

A process for solving workflow design problems...

How the re-design of the store ownership transfer workflow
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Co-creating our Atlassian Design System values and
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How we co-created Atlassian Design System’s new values
and principles with a team of over 30 designers, engineers,
and content designers....

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 Generation of
Windows...

How we built a single product for over a billion people...

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Resilient user experience patterns — impactful designs
that actually last forever...

Design systems deserve well-documented guidance, but
defining this isn’t always straightforward. Here’s how to
design lasting UX patterns....

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5 proven ways to run your best remote design sprint |
Inside Design Blog...

Want to run your best and most inclusive design sprint yet?
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Problems versus Dilemmas: The Complex Trade-offs
Produced by Social Settings...

Facebook’s VP of Product Design and Responsible Innovation
on how we design for social settings, which present dilemmas
with complex…...

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Problems versus Dilemmas: The Complex Trade-offs
Produced by Social Settings...

Facebook’s VP of Product Design and Responsible Innovation
on how we design for social settings, which present dilemmas
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We have opened an office in New York City to better connect
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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...

Take action to unpack complexity...

Hey Slack Design — When will I know that I should be
a manager? If I decide I want to stick to being a desig......

I wish I could tell you that I had a flowchart to show you
precisely when you should switch to management. There’s no
simple answer — in my career, I’ve transitioned between rol......

How News UK developed a multi-brand design
system...

The team at News UK shares their experience creating a
design system across print, online, radio, and TV...

www.invisionapp.com

Why now is the best time for you to adopt design
tokens | Inside Design Blog...

Kaelig Deloumeau-Prigent, co-chair of the Design Tokens
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People, Products, and Epiphanies - Library - Google
Design...

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

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Diverse sampling in user research: Why it matters...

Imagine this: you go to wash your hands before dinner at a
local restaurant, and place your hand beneath the new
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Creating a spark with the IBM Spark Design Festival...

Be engaged. Feel empowered. Get excited....

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How we used Confluence to run a diary study...

Thinking about running a diary study? Check out how we
used Confluence to host our research....

Hey Slack Design — Which is the right place for a new
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This is a really good question—without any right answers! It
depends on what you want right now in your career. Ask
yourself: What kind of impact do you want to have, be it on ......

Hey Slack Design — How can I tell which companies I
should go for to get the most growth? • Slack Design...

If you’re thinking about this question early in your career,
good for you! As a young designer, you’re likely eager for a
job that pays you well and lets you do what you love, all whi......

Learning Lessons...

How to build a Design education program  for creative work...

Next-generation theme design: how we made Dawn
fast, extensible, and beautiful...

An in-depth look at how our newest theme was designed for
the latest high-performance web standards...

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9 Tips for Collaborating Virtually...

Miro Superuser shares his digital best practices for
empowering everyone to share ideas....

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Collaborative flowcharting: What it is (and why you
need to try it) | Inside Design Blog...

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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 the Edge of
the World - Library - Google Design...

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

Figma's Series E ...

We have closed a new round of funding led by Durable
Capital Partners...

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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...

www.invisionapp.com

This important skill will come naturally to the next
generation of designers | Inside Design Blog...

Designing what you don’t know...

How creating internal data products helped me evolve as a
designer...

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Design Tokens: What they are and how to use them |
Inside Design...

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How do I build a good mentor/mentee relationship?...

Advice for mentees on building an effective relationship...

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The Three Biggest Challenges Designers Often Face in
a Deep Domain Industry...

You won’t know until you try....

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Celebrating the #PowerofBlackDesigners and How
They’re Shaping the Industry...

Twelve Black designers voice their experiences, reflections
and visions for the future....

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Behind the digital curtain — designing our Team ’21
virtual stage environment...

Normally around this time of year, a handful of Atlassian
Creative team members are emerging from the depths of an
underground bunker beneath a convention hall in Las Vegas......

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7 Tips to make your chatbot sound smarter when
things go wrong...

Empower your chatbot to handle difficult conversations with
ease...

The magic of collaborating across disciplines...

How I work with developers and product teams to ship faster...

The five stages of an effective brainstorm...

Tips from the research and marketing teams at Figma...

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New: We’ve made Freehand available to everyone |
Inside Design Blog...

Collaborating and connecting in FigJam...

How our team celebrates and syncs in the file...

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Why the history of the gender binary matters to the
future of design | Inside Design Blog...

medium.com/salesforce-ux

My Unconventional Journey to Becoming a Salesforce
Designer...

Hello, I’m Angela, a Salesforce consultant specialising in
Design Strategy at PwC UK....

Designing application forms for speed and ease...

How we shipped fast funds to UK entrepreneurs during
COVID-19...

Archetypes for creative leadership...

How to define the behaviors you value...

Inside Figma: how our PM team uses FigJam...

Templates for you and your team to get started with
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medium.com/design-ibm

Rick and Morty + 5 IBMers: Patterns, Winter 2021...

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...

medium.com/deliveroo-design

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 see why 99% of the time, th......

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

What are the can’t-miss sessions for design Trailblazers this
year? We put it all in one place....

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Can Accessible Design Help Brand Emails Break
Through?...

Discover how to design a modern email for audiences of all
abilities by using the new Salesforce builder...

medium.com/asana-design

Meet Asana Design: Jina Anne...

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

The best of Inside Shopify UX...

Highlights from our first podcast season...

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Better in Black: Rethinking our Most Important
Buttons...

We’re changing Spotify’s most important buttons. Here’s why....

medium.com/spotify-design

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 might be your
best design team hire....

TL;DR: 6 mo of work by 1 intern and the 20% time of two
“dev-signers” has led to designs taking 30% less time, on
average, for every…...

Embracing the mess at Config 2021...

Watch all of the videos from 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 Conversation
Design - Library - Google Design...

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

Q&A with Dantley Davis...

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

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Meet Asana Design: Cici Chen...

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

A map for uncovering your assumptions...

How I use journey mapping to align teams before they begin...

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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...

medium.com/facebook-design

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

By Michelle Cortese and Andrea Zeller...

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

By Michelle Cortese and Andrea Zeller...

medium.com/salesforce-ux

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...

medium.com/asana-design

Meet Asana Design: Kofa Boyah...

Welcome to our blog series, Meet Asana Design, 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 and cons, and
how to decide....

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Meet Asana Design: Christina Trifero...

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

medium.com/microsoft-design

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
inspiration at the heart...

Design Highlights - 2021...

A festive parade of design from Amazon...

medium.com/salesforce-ux

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 Config
2021...

Hey Slack Design — I studied a bunch of different
design practices at school, from print design to grap......

How do new design grads know which career path is the right
one? Josie Jeffries, Director of Creative at Slack, lends some
expert perspective and advice....

Hey, Slack Design — As a UX writer, I want to build up
my design knowledge, too. Which design skills woul......

Slack content designer TJ Lee weighs in on useful design skills
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Design System Checklist: How to Screen New
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The four criteria that will set your design system up for
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Meet Asana Design: Kritika Kushwaha...

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What’s in a name? Introducing Content Design at
Uber...

Why we’ve changed the job title of our UX Writing team...

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Beyond Calibri: Finding The Next Microsoft 365
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We’ve commissioned five new custom fonts–help us choose
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Introducing branching: space to iterate and explore
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Announcing branching in beta ...

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Making Machine Learning Human-Centered...

How we united UX Research and ML to improve image
quality on Pinterest...

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Making Machine Learning Human-Centered...

How we united UX Research and ML to improve image
quality on Pinterest...

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A day in the life of a content designer at Deliveroo...

Our content designers work across all of our consumer, rider
and restaurant products — collaborating with a diverse set of
disciplines…...

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Meet Asana Design: Andrew Rose...

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

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 Suggested
Responses...

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 Suggested
Responses...

Find out how product teams can create ready-made
conversation replies through content design principles....

Why inclusive design is essential to building a better
product • Slack Design...

A conversation between two Slack designers Nikki Nolan
and Vivian Urata on why inclusive design should be the new
normal. Audio version provided above. Nikki Nolan: I’m gla......

Collaborating Through a Pandemic...

For these copy/design duos, inspiration, trust, and talking
about nothing are the keys to success...

How Repsol rethinks the way the world interacts with
energy...

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 - Google
Design...

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

Behind the feature: building multi-account...

What it took to build and ship a (seemingly) simple user
request...

Why your organization needs product principles •
Slack Design...

How—and why—to create product principles to guide your
decision-making processes....

Behind the scenes of creating the official Figma kit for
Tailwind UI...

How the team at Tailwind Labs created a set of fully
responsive components...

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How I Found My Way on a New Team: Practical tips
to get you on the road to success...

“Started from the bottom now we’re here!”...

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How I Found My Way on a New Team: Practical tips
to get you on the road to success...

“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, inspired by, or in
some cases, just…...

Completing a transit map...

Build on a work-in-progress Figma Community file and help
complete a transit map of the San Francisco 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 about designing
products for the entire…...

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 Enterprise
Product Design • Slack Design...

Shifting from UX design to product design was pretty
straightforward: the bigger challenge was adapting my design
mindset. Here are a few key lessons I’ve learned....

design.lyft.com

Interviewing with Lyft Design: The Product Designer...

Insight into the Product Design interview experience...

Behind the feature: comments, contextually...

How the team handled difficult interactions and edge cases
to bring comments into the Figma Community...

medium.com/facebook-design

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 policies
about process; it’s deep design work to 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 builds Figma...

Best practices and templates from Figmates across teams...

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A journey through the ages: Atlassian content
experience...

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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…...

medium.com/spotify-design

Crafting Aha! Moments: Lessons from Live Experience
Creators...

As creatives, we tend to draw inspiration from the things and
people around us. We love that moment where the penny
drops, the stars align…...

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 contributor,
part 3...

Career growth might not be linear. If it isn’t, what other shape
can it take?...

medium.com/designatmeta

Grow your design career as an individual contributor,
part 3...

Career growth might not be linear. If it isn’t, what other shape
can it take?...

design.lyft.com

(Still) Working Alone Together...

Observations and management approaches as we enter year
two of the pandemic...

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....

medium.com/designing-atlassian

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 design system
components in Figma...

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 the
world—creates...

Design Inspiration, 2.05...

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

Amazon Design Supports Cooper Hewitt’s National
Design Month...

Amazon Design partners with Cooper Hewitt to prepare the
next generation of designers in tech. ...

Amazon’s commitment to design mentorship when it’s
needed most...

Mentorship and guidance have never been more important
than they are at this moment. ...

Come one, come all...

Amazon Design sponsors 2021 Interaction Awards...

medium.com/facebook-design

Grow your Design Career as an Individual Contributor,
Part 2: Finding Your Next Turning Point...

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 virtual—and it felt a
whole lot like the real thing • Slack Design...

Every year, Slack Frontiers, our annual flagship conference for
Slack users, is a little different. This year, like so many other
things in 2020, it proved to be like no other. Traditionally w......

Lessons from the Scariest Design Disaster in American
History - Library - Google Design...

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

Inside Figma: a case study on strict null checks...

A look at how we identify and address bugs...

Threads in Slack, a long design journey (part 2 of 2) •
Slack Design...

Part two of the long and winding design road that resulted in
Slack's pivotal "threads" feature being 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...

medium.com/microsoft-design

Give with Microsoft Bing...

How your web searches empower everyday giving...

medium.com/spotify-design

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....

medium.com/pinterest-studio

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…...

pinterest.design

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…...

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 the first
five years of Figma...

medium.com/uber-design

Designing For A Cash Experience...

What cash trips in Mexico taught me about designing for
international markets at Uber...

The New Normal...

Creating services to keep our travel community safe ...

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

Product designer McKenna Lowry and content designer TJ
Lee were on completely different pages when they were
tasked with redesigning Slack’s search filters. To get it done, ......

design.lyft.com

Building a Design System Library...

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

design.lyft.com

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...

medium.com/microsoft-design

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 new Auto
Layout...

The evolution of Auto Layout and more on the latest version...

Beneath the Surface - Library - Google Design...

Google Seed Studio shares the inspiration behind their latest
creative direction...

medium.com/spotify-design

5 Things I Wish I’d Known Before Starting a Design
System at Spotify...

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 Computing -
Library - Google Design...

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 expression for designer......

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 of autosave...

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....

medium.com/pinterest-studio

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-of-office workstations...

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 communications are still so hard....

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 Q2 and beyond....

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!), some old things in new......

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 when we’re all in differen......

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, it’s more comfortable, it’s a no-brai......

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 for getting good fee......

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 the future ......

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

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 interview with Slack’s ......

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, this is gratifying work. ......

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 project details what it took to de......

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 Pentawards ...

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 doesn't have a purpose" in ......

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 money bank...

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 audiences through ......

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

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 her career in design....

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 her career in design....

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 insights platform at Uber...

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 approach to design....

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 Design...

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...

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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...

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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...

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Make design history...

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

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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...

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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...

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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...

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Creating Etsy’s Design Principles...

Aligning on a shared definition of design excellence...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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Welcome to Etsy Design...

Allow us the privilege of introducing ourselves....

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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Going deeper into Mozilla’s identity problem...

Michael Johnson...

How a community-driven photography effort transformed
our new guest app...

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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...

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Our Brand Personality...

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Theme 7: The Fight...

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Theme 6: For Freedom...

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Theme 5: Change Makers...

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Theme 4: For Good...

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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...

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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...