There Is No Neutral Design: Megan Kasselberg, Senior UX Writer and Content Designer, Material Design
The storytelling and strategy that goes into a design system as vast as Material Design.
Interface Café
the theory, practice, and joy of the interface
Latest posts
New Plugin: Ratio Rulers 📐
Recently, I've been playing around with different ratio-based grids, so I made a quick little plugin.
📺 Watch my I/O session on customizing Material Design
My colleague Bradley and I had the chance to film a quick session going over the upcoming customization features that will unlock broader expression using Material components.
📚 Check out this new Are.na channel about the interface
Follow along if you want to see the ideas influencing my work as I find them.
☕️ Interface as Environment • Doubleshot
Part of the work I’ve been doing during the hiatus centers on the role of the interface as an environmental facet of our lives.
Beyond the Text Field: Louise Macfadyen, Author of Designing AI Interfaces
Managing the conceptual distance between what AI actually does and what people imagine it can do, with Designing AI Interfaces author Louise Macfadyen
The Story of Menu_Open
How the menu_open icon got encoded in Material Components history.
The State of Buttons
The button's complexity is a result of how flexible the concept of a button really is. It's just a region of space on screen that triggers some action.
A Meditation on Gardening, Design, and Information
It’s very hard to replicate the aesthetic pleasure of a moonvine on-screen. The composition suffers from a lack of texture. There’s no wind or rain inside a smartphone.
Google Sans Flex is Now on Google Fonts
Google's brand font is now open-source on Google Fonts.
The Era of the Generalist: Rachel Been, SVP of Design for Expedia Group
How AI is breaking linear design paradigms and why, in an age of potential "design slop," deep curiosity and human-centered craft are more important than ever.
Humanity Will Always Be The Reference • Doubleshot
The “human edge” is simply humanity itself.
Levels of Abstraction • Doubleshot
The aesthetic effect of mystery in design.
Other Than Expected: Fabian Bircher on Combining Art, Architecture, and Code
Fabian discusses his unique creative process, where inspiration flows from both artistic concepts and the discovery of new technological possibilities.
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Just a quick update while I prep the next episode of Design Notes: the podcast has a new presence on YouTube! If you’re not already following along, subscribe in YouTube/YT Music. The next episode (and a Doubleshot newsletter ) will be out next week! Subscribe on YouTube