Google’s gradient ‘G’ icon, design is going company-wide
After introducing for Google Search in May, the gradient ‘G’ icon will now be used across the company.
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YouTube Design on its new red color and magenta gradient
Towards the end of last year, YouTube introduced a “new, softer shade of red” and a magenta gradient alongside other design changes to the app. The team behind it has now detailed the changes.
Expand Expanding CloseGoogle consolidating X/Twitter accounts, like Pixel and Material Design
Given the vast nature of Google, the company has a lot of product/service accounts on X (formerly Twitter) and is working to consolidate them. There are two separate instances with Google Pixel and Material Design this month.
Expand Expanding CloseGoogle Fitbit wants to give you insight & actionable information, not just stats
Google Design published an interview with the “Google Fitbit UX team” that provides an interesting look at last year’s Material You redesign of the app, which is still taking shape.
Expand Expanding CloseGoogle’s ‘Making Material You’ design films feature wild early concepts
Google Design has redone its website, and it is quite fun to explore. To mark the occasion, there is a series of short design films about “The Making of Material You.”
Expand Expanding CloseHere’s a real-life look at the Pixel Tablet, including new coral color [Gallery]
Google Design is exhibiting at Milan Design Week 2023 with “Shaped by Water.” That installation also happens to include a table of Google products, including the unreleased Pixel Tablet in a new coral color.
Expand Expanding CloseWatch Material You and Android UIs interpreted ‘in more physical ways’ [Video]
Google Design today shared a video “collage of animated experiments inspired by #MaterialDesign,” specifically Material You.
Expand Expanding CloseGoogle brings back the blobs with simplified, black-and-white ‘Noto Emoji’ [Gallery]
Google has created a new emoji (variable) font with “Noto Emoji,” whose defining characteristic is a black-and-white design that tries to capture the “simplicity” of the format – and also happens to bring back the blobs.
Expand Expanding CloseGoogle is now focused on making its iPhone and iPad apps feel more native to iOS
Google applications on iOS have long been criticized for not feeling native to the platform. Earlier this year, the company’s designers reviewed their approach for developing iOS apps and opted for a change.
Expand Expanding Close2021 Material Design Awards looking for best dark theme, motion, & large screen apps [Update: Material You prize]
Google today opened submissions for the 2021 Material Design Awards. Now in its seventh year, the company is looking for apps with great dark theme, large screen, and motion implementations.
Expand Expanding CloseGoogle Phone app quietly switches font to ‘Google Sans Text’
Besides unveiling Material You, Google at I/O 2021 last month detailed how “GS Text” is the company’s new font and beginning to appear in more first-party applications. Google Sans Text is now in use by the Phone app on Android.
Expand Expanding CloseGoogle designer behind Project Kennedy, Material, AR/VR, and Ambient Computing departs
Jon Wiley announced today that he is leaving Google after a nearly 15-year career. The designer played a big role in unifying the company’s design language at the start of the last decade.
Expand Expanding CloseGoogle apps are beginning to adopt ‘Google Sans Text’
At the “What’s new in Material Design” session this morning, Google shared that its apps are starting to use Google Sans Text. We’ve seen it pop up in some products already, but the company at I/O 2021 better detailed the font.
Expand Expanding CloseMaterial You is Google’s new personalized design language
“Material You” is Google’s “radical new way to think about design.” It’s a hyper-personalized approach to designing custom appearances for apps and other interfaces that adapts to users, starting on Android.
Expand Expanding CloseGoogle Fonts gets new logo as catalog adds iconography, starting with Material Icons
Given how “typography and iconography are so strongly related,” Google Fonts is adding Material icons and getting a new logo in the process.
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Material Gallery collaborative app migrating to Google Photos storage, quota
Material Gallery is essentially Google Slides for designers wanting to upload mockups and screenshots for collaborative feedback. Google is now moving Material Gallery’s backend to Google Photos early next year.
Expand Expanding Close2020 Material Design Awards looking for best dark mode, theming, and motion
Since 2015, Google has hosted the Material Design Awards to “showcase the flexibility and capability of the Material Design system.” Nominations for the 2020 Material Design Awards are now open with Google focusing on more straightforward themes for the sixth edition.
Google announces 2019 Material Design Award winners
This year marks the fifth edition of Google Design’s effort to highlight “best-in-class designs from our community.” Announced at SPAN in Brooklyn, the 2019 Material Design Award winners are Ruff, Reflectly, Scripts, and Trip.com.
Google opens 2019 nominations for fifth Material Design Awards
Now in its fifth edition, Google is taking nominations for the 2019 Material Design Awards. There are four categories with self-nominations again accepted, with the company looking for “best-in-class designs from our community.”
Google Design details the Photos, Calendar, and Android Auto dark themes
Over the past several months, many Google apps have adopted dark themes with the Google app and Gmail likely coming next. Google today detailed how the teams behind Photos, Calendar, and other first-party services designed their dark modes.
2018 Material Design Award winners announced, all featuring unique Material Themes
Back in August, Google opened up nominations for the 2018 Material Design Awards. Three months later, the four winners have been unveiled with all leveraging the new Material Theming platform announced at Google I/O.
Google opens 2018 nominations for 4th annual Material Design Awards
At I/O 2018, Google announced Material Theming and what’s next for its design language. The company’s apps are in the process of being revamped, while third-parties have already begun to take advantage of the new framework. To recognize “best-in-class designs,” Google today opened nominations for the 2018 Material Design Awards.
Google opens 2017 Material Design Awards to Android, iOS, & web, accepting self-nominations
In addition to opening sign-ups for the Indie Games Festival today, Google is now taking nominations for the 2017 Material Design Awards. A more open selection process this year will look at Material experiences on both iOS and the web.
Material Components allow developers to easily design with Material on Android, iOS, and web
After expanding Material Design to encompass design and prototyping tools, a new suite of modular and customizable UI components will make it easier to design apps in accordance with Google’s guidelines. Material Components will help developers implement Material Design on Android, iOS, and the web, with a preview now live on GitHub.