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.
Material Design
Stories about Google's open-source design system.
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.
Material Design Gets Expressive: Aneesha Kommineni, Andy Stewart, and Michael Gilbert
The latest evolution of Google’s design system: Material 3 Expressive.
Code, Creativity, Performance: Will Larche, Engineering Manager, Google
Engineering as the "study of making choices."
Fab Components: Bethany Fong, Design Director
How the heady early days of Material unfolded.
📺 Watch This: The Techsploder Podcast
I recently got to sit down with my old friend and tech-world colleague Jason Howell on his new show “Techsploder.”
Facing Our Interfaces: Matías Duarte, Google
Matías Duarte on why the interface's only limitation is imagination... and battery life.
📚 Read This: What Does Your UI Say To Your Users?
New on the Material Blog: a post from Nico Thornley, Brenton Simpson, Julia Feldman, and Michael Gilbert about research the team did to determine how users perceive Material 3 against Material 2.
An Updated Primer on Android Navigation
Learn how to use Material components to create the smoothest navigation for your app.
Designing Better Code: Connie Shi and Matvei Malkov, Google Material Design
On what makes software engineering a true creative practice.
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