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Method Podcast from Google Design

31 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★★ - 55 ratings

The Method podcast profiles designers at Google, giving listeners an inside look at their journeys and design choices.

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Maggie Stanphill, Digital Wellbeing

November 14, 2019 22:06 - 26 minutes - 50.1 MB

Maggie Stanphill, Director of UX at Google talks about her efforts in Digital Wellbeing. How this became a focus in the tech industry, and what is Google doing to contribute? I hope you enjoy the episode.

Maggie Stamphill, Digital Wellbeing

November 08, 2019 22:12 - 26 minutes - 50.1 MB

Maggie Stanphill, Director of UX at Google talks about her efforts in Digital Wellbeing. How this became a focus in the tech industry, and what is Google doing to contribute? I hope you enjoy the episode.

Google UX Interns

September 17, 2019 05:00 - 29 minutes - 57.5 MB

Garrett Tolbert, Andrea Davila, and Alex Lim talk to us about life as a Google UX intern. In this episode, we talk with a trio of UX interns with three very different paths to Google: What led them to their internships? How their experience has changed them. What’s next in their UX journeys?   Handy links for this episode: Learn about internships at Google   Meet our guests: Garrett Tolbert – UX Engineering intern at Google Andrea Davila – UX Writing intern at Google Alex L...

Emily Blank, Canvas Project & Material Design

August 20, 2019 05:00 - 18 minutes - 34.2 MB

What does the term “creative collaboration” mean to you? What do you need to consider when the things you create are seen in the seams of people’s day? How do the images we see everyday impact our living experience? Join us as we explore these Questions with Emily Blank, Art Director on Google’s Material Design team.   Handy links for this episode: The Canvas Project by Google Cloud   Meet our guest: Emily Blank works to create impactful imagery on Google’s Material Design team...

Philip Battin & Curtis Flanagan, Seed Studio

June 25, 2019 10:00 - 26 minutes - 60.4 MB

From prototyping futures to designing artifacts solely for discussion, tune in to explore the idiosyncratic—but important—field of speculative design. In this episode, host Travis Neilson sits down with Philip Battin and Curtis Flanagan from Seed Studio, a Google design team working on future-forward creative concepts for human-centered technology. In this intriguing conversation, the trio unpack what it means to rehearse the future to inform the present. Handy links for this episode: Exp...

The Google UX Hiring Process

May 28, 2019 10:00 - 18 minutes - 42.1 MB

What makes a portfolio stand out? Why is the design exercise necessary? What exactly is a “noogler” and how do you become one? In this episode, host Travis Neilson talks with Google Design Manager Mike Buzzard about the seven phases of the Google UX hiring process. Along the way, hear audio clips of designers describing their own stories of applying to work at Google. From overcoming the fear of submitting an application, to demystifying the full-day of on-site interviews, listen in for a co...

Roxanne Pinto, Google Flights

April 23, 2019 10:00 - 20 minutes - 47.6 MB

In this episode, host Travis Neilson interviews Roxanne Pinto, a content strategist at Google, about the role of UX writing in helping people use—and understand—machine learning-driven products. Listen in as Pinto shares insightful anecdotes about unpacking errors and how mental models shape product interactions and user trust. Handy links for this episode: Get an overview of Google IO Explore Google Flights Explore Google Ads Meet our guest: Roxanne Pinto is a content strategist at Go...

Matthew Levine, Gallery (Passion Projects)

March 19, 2019 10:00 - 17 minutes - 41.1 MB

From scaling an idea into a viable product to building a design tool that optimizes collaboration with developers, tune in to part three of our series on passion projects. In this episode, host Travis Neilson interviews Matthew Levine, a UX lead and engineer at Google, to discuss the origins of Gallery and the tension between finding a passion-worthy problem and developing the necessary skills to solve it. Handy links for this episode: Get an overview of Gallery Download Gallery for Andro...

Adrienne Klum & Spencer Syfrig, Practicing Playful Creation (Passion Projects)

March 12, 2019 10:00 - 8 minutes - 20.1 MB

In part two of our series on passion projects, host Travis Neilson interviews two Google UX designers to discuss their creativity-boosting workshop. From inventing new uses for unconventional objects to focusing on the process instead of the solution, tune in as Adrienne Klum and Spencer Syfrig unpack how listening, collaborating, and playing leads to wildly creative problem solving. Meet our guests: Adrienne Klum is a UX design manager at Google, currently working on Google Drive. Previou...

Adam Argyle, VisBug (Passion Projects)

March 05, 2019 11:00 - 32 minutes - 75 MB

From envisioning creative tools to helping new UXers navigate the developing world, tune in to part one of our three-part series on passion projects. In this episode, host Travis Neilson interviews Adam Argyle, a UX engineer at Google, about his journey creating the design tool VisBug, the connection between passion and empathy, and fervently advocating for an idea—even when you encounter challenges along the way. Handy links for this episode: Play in the VisBug sandbox Download the VisBu...

Isabelle Olsson, Google Hardware

February 05, 2019 11:00 - 24 minutes - 55.7 MB

In this special crossover episode, Google Method shares an interview from Design Notes—a show about creative work and what it teaches us. Taped at Google Design’s 2018 SPAN Helsinki conference, host Aaron Lammer interviews Isabelle Olsson about her journey to becoming an industrial designer and the intricacies of crafting the design language for Google Hardware. From learning the basics of design from her grandfather (a self-taught industrial designer) to her fascination with materiality and...

Google UX Confessions

January 08, 2019 11:00 - 22 minutes - 51 MB

From inventing fictitious calendar entries to incorporating personal photos in design mocks, listen in to Google designers’ deepest design confessions. In this episode, host Travis Neilson and a panel of Google UX designers discuss and reflect on their peers’ anonymous confessions and offer insight on important topics, quirky habits, and design struggles that don’t often get airtime. Meet our panel: Simon Pan is a senior interaction designer at Google working on Google News. Before joining...

Peter Jin Hong & Scott Wasson, Google Job Search

December 04, 2018 19:39 - 35 minutes - 81.6 MB

In this episode, host Travis Neilson interviews two UX designers at Google—Peter Jin Hong and Scott Wasson—discussing the impact of Google Search and how the newly launched Job Search feature is changing the job-seeking landscape. They cover everything from the effect of transactional memory on job hunters to the importance of qualitative research when making UX decisions. Listen in as they talk behavioral science, soft skills, and identity to illustrate how empathy affects the experience of...

Margaret Lee, UX Community & Culture at Google

November 13, 2018 11:00 - 27 minutes - 63.6 MB

In this episode, host Travis Neilson interviews Margaret Lee, a UX director at Google, about her journey to leadership and explorations of diversity and inclusion in the workplace. Lee shares personal vignettes—including the career stories of her immigrant parents, and stewarding the opinionated nature of her young daughter—to discuss her own path to becoming a “reluctant leader.” Listen in to hear how Lee found a healthy balance between meeting performance expectations at work and being her...

August de los Reyes of Google Search, Assistant, and News

October 16, 2018 09:00 - 30 minutes - 68.8 MB

In this episode, host Travis Neilson interviews August de los Reyes, a UX director at Google, about considering a product’s cultural equity—its noneconomic and nonfunctional benefits—and how that influences a user’s state of being. De los Reyes also touches on everything from game and car design to the Eames’ Powers of Ten to illustrate how zooming in and out of designed systems can help bridge the gap between the designer’s intent, the functionality of a product, and the user’s emotional re...

Illustrators at Google

September 19, 2018 09:00 - 28 minutes - 65.1 MB

In this episode, host Travis Neilson interviews a trio of Google illustrators creating images to inform and delight millions of people around the world. Designer Mat Helme shares insights from his work creating the guidelines for Google’s product illustrations. Motion Designer Laura Dumitru talks about her creative process and the animations she designed for the new Pixel startup sequence. Doodler Hélène Leroux shares the story of her illustrations for Back To The Moon—a Google doodle about ...

Jens Riegelsberger of Google

August 21, 2018 08:00 - 22 minutes - 51.9 MB

In this episode, Travis Neilson interviews Jens Riegelsberger, a UX Director at Google, about the company’s evolving design identity. Riegelsberger discusses his role in launching Google’s Product Excellence program—an initiative that sets the bar for quality and usability across all Google products—and what it means to build teams that favor multiple perspectives and diverse skillsets. A few highlights: On being a good leader “Look at your job as chiefly to enable other people's insight...

Ryan Powell of Waymo

July 24, 2018 10:00 - 23 minutes - 53.7 MB

In this episode, Aidan Simpson interviews Ryan Powell, Waymo’s Head of UX Design, about the company’s Early Rider Program and the challenges of designing during a technology paradigm shift. Plus, Powell unpacks the thinking behind how his team decides what details to include in the car’s interfaces so they foster trust with users. A few highlights: On the challenge of replacing human drivers “I think there's some number out there that says more than half of all communication is nonverbal. ...

Conor O'Sullivan of Google Pixel

June 25, 2018 22:20 - 21 minutes - 48.8 MB

In this episode, Aidan Simpson interviews Google Sound Design Lead Conor O’Sullivan about the nuances of crafting product sounds and the choices that shape everything from notification pings to haptic feedback. The conversation also covers the elements that make up Google’s sonic branding, including resolving G chords and piano music. A few highlights: On the value of sonic subtlety, 9:31 “I do think your goal as a sound designer is to provide feedback that doesn’t jump out too much. It so...

Rich Fulcher of Material Design

May 30, 2018 07:00 - 23 minutes - 54.4 MB

In this episode, Aidan Simpson interviews Material Design director Rich Fulcher about the evolution of design tools, the importance of flexibility in a design system, and what it means to design for users who are also designers and developers. Learn more about the journeys and creative decisions of designers at Google by subscribing to the Method podcast on Google Play, iTunes, RSS, or Spotify. A few highlights: On designing for designers and developers "It's a little hard to get a f...

Todd Hausman of Chrome OS

May 01, 2018 07:00 - 17 minutes - 39.4 MB

In this episode, Aidan Simpson interviews UX Researcher Todd Hausman about human side of research, taking career risks, and his work on Chrome OS—the operating system on devices like Chromebook and Acer’s new Tab 10 tablet. Learn more about the journeys and creative decisions of designers at Google by subscribing to the Method podcast on Google Play, iTunes, RSS, or Spotify. A few highlights: On the best part of being a researcher “What I love about being a researcher is that you get...

Fiona Yeung & Alison Boncha of Hexagon UX

March 27, 2018 07:00 - 16 minutes - 38.9 MB

In this episode, Aidan Simpson interviews Interaction Designers Alison Boncha and Fiona Yeung about impostor syndrome, the importance of mentorship, and how they developed the bold, inclusive new brand for Hexagon—a supportive community of women and non-binary UXers. The trio also discuss great career advice, hard lessons, and why everyone should have a “Yay Folder.” A few highlights: Alison on why you should leave your first job “A friend in college told me, never stay your first job ...

Josh Lovejoy from Google Clips

February 27, 2018 08:00 - 12 minutes - 29.2 MB

In this episode, Aidan Simpson interviews UX Designer Josh Lovejoy about the design of the Google Clips camera, building user trust in ‘magical’ products, and ways of using UX to help people feel more in the moment. Learn more about the journeys and creative decisions of designers at Google by subscribing to the Method podcast. A few highlights: On overcoming the myths of magic, neutral AI, 10:22 “We can use technology to connect better with the self that we aspire to be. If we can get...

Margaret Urban from Google Assistant

January 30, 2018 08:00 - 22 minutes - 52 MB

In this episode, guest interviewer and Google designer Travis Neilson talks with Senior Interaction Designer Margaret Urban about the magic of language, the importance of considering cognitive load, and the future of voice user interface design.   On making computers sound human, 2:35 “How language is used in the social context is really important in creating something that sounds natural. Because we want the computers to talk like people. We don't want to force the people to talk like...

Ayan Daniels from Android Messages

January 04, 2018 08:00 - 22 minutes - 51.4 MB

In this episode, Aidan interviews Visual Designer Ayan Daniels about her work on Android Messages, her debate-sparking illustration for the Pixel phone, and what it’s like being a woman of color at Google. Ayan Daniels is a San Francisco-based Visual Designer hailing from Cincinnati, Ohio. Currently working on the Android Messages team, Ayan has been at Google for more than two years and previously worked on both Android and Pixel. Handy info and links for this episode: RCS (Rich Comm...

Sydney Hessel from Design Sprint Team

December 05, 2017 12:00 - 20 minutes - 47.1 MB

UX Researcher and Sprint Master Sydney Hessel talks about her unconventional research background, the ins and outs of the sprint methodology, and getting people out of their comfort zones to generate creative ideas.  

Rachel Been from Material

November 08, 2017 08:00 - 18 minutes - 15 MB

Material Design Creative Director Rachel Been on creating a design system at scale, emoji, and the creative power of curiosity. A few highlights: On the challenge of making a design system at scale, 1:23 “To create a system that potentially works for thousands of products to use. To define and spec a button that thousands of different product teams could functionally use. It’s a challenge to make that work.” On becoming a designer, 7:18 “I have a really atypical background. I studi...

Roman Nurik from Firebase

October 11, 2017 07:00 - 34 minutes - 31.9 MB

In this episode, Design Advocate and host of the new Design Notes podcast Liam Spradlin speaks with Senior Interaction Designer Roman Nurik about Google’s Firebase mobile development platform, the unique challenges of designing for developers, and his approach to building design tools. Subscribe to the Method podcast on Google Play, iTunes, or RSS. A few highlights: On designing UX for developers, 18:00 “We really want to make sure that if you come into Firebase not having ever built...

Darren Delaye from Daydream

August 24, 2017 10:00 - 27 minutes - 23 MB

In this episode, Aidan speaks with User Experience Designer Darren Delaye about the unique challenges of designing for VR, the future of Daydream, and Darren’s work across many products over his 12 years at Google. “A new challenge is not knowing exactly what versions of your platform, your hardware, and the future, to design for. The easiest projects are the ones where you know the goals and you know the parameters. But sometimes, working on the Daydream team and in VR, we don't even know...

Rita DeRaedt from Google Voice

August 03, 2017 16:00 - 25 minutes - 34.8 MB

In this episode, Aidan speaks with Interaction Designer Rita DeRaedt about rising to challenges, crafting a new onboarding sequence for Google Voice, taking risks, and much, much more. A few highlights: On getting coffee with Google co-founder Sergey Brin, 2:44 "The other design interns and I had this ongoing joke that we were going to get Larry and Sergey to have a one-on-one with us . . . and because I wanted to make it happen, I kind of volunteered myself." On becoming a television ...

Jay Wong from Project Fi

July 11, 2017 16:00 - 23 minutes - 32.1 MB

Aidan interviews UX Design Lead Jay Wong about her experience working as a designer with a computer science degree, some of the design decisions and challenges her team tackles on Project Fi, and much, much more. A few highlights: On why designers should learn programming, 9:35 “Learning to code forces you to get better as a designer because it forces you to think of everything as a system.” On education and knowing your design tools, 15:00 “The faster you are at the tool and the qui...

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