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Design Notes is a show about creative work and what it teaches us, hosted by Google's Liam Spradlin. Each episode, we talk with people from unique creative fields to discover what inspires and unites us in our practice.
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Material Design Gets Expressive: Aneesha Kommineni, Andy Stewart, and Michael Gilbert

Jun 10, 2025

This special episode digs into the latest evolution of Google’s design system: Material 3 Expressive.

Liam talks with Material Design’s Android Product Manager Aneesha Kommineni, UX Researcher Michael Gilbert, and Creative Director Andy Stewart about the team’s latest emotion-driven UX update. They reveal how this...

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Beauty Across the Board: Rich Fulcher, UX Director

Jan 14, 2025

This season's special series celebrating ten years since the launch of Material Design closes out with Rich Fulcher, former Google UX director and Material design lead. Fulcher remembers the career-defining journey of creating Material, what it was like to make beauty a UX priority, how to pressure test a system, and...

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