Back in 2016
Zach Gibson,
Rachel Been and
Brendan Pascoe hit me up about a contract position to ”help us evolve our design system”. After going through 3+ interview processes and never making it to a role, I was feeling a little burnt by Google. But I couldn’t pass on this dream project.
I started as a contractor designing out hypothetical products to showcase the flexibility of what Material could be. Soon after I converted to FTE and owned big portions of Google's design system, from a bunch of components, typography, layout, states systems to collaborating deeply with engineering on the logic around how we systematically build a theme-able interface (shout out to all my eng partners). I fell in love with doing design sprints internally and with third parties around the world to adopt Material. &
Yasmine Evjen finally convinced me to get out of my comfort zone and on stage at Google I/O.
8 years later I still use Material Design every day, whether it’s making products or using them. Working on Material Design was & is a total dream – I am so grateful to be a part of it.
Thank you to all the Material folks who have inspired me & taught me so much;
CC Cassidy,
Philippe Cao,
Damien Correll,
Tom Manning,
Clayton Meador,
David Allin Reese,
Javier Lopez,
Megan Anderson,
Lynn Jepsen,
Sameer Bansal,
Bethany Fong,
Emily Rosenberg-Blank,
Jonas Naimark,
Barbara Eldredge,
Silvia Chang,
Jefferson Cheng,
Ayan Daniels,
Adam Grabowski, Matías Duarte, Scott Hyndman, Travis Collins, Dylin Martin, Christian Robertson, Paul Schlacter, Kunal Patel, Patrick RoDee, Matthew Goo, Irin Kim, William Ernest, Jake Metzger, Adrian Secord, Joshua Estelle, Will Larche, Anthony Robledo, Connie Shi, Shona Dutta, Catherine Idylle, Kenichi Yoneda, Josh Principe, Andy Stewart, Liam Spradlin, Jane Makich, Sehee Lee, Bryn Smith, Karen Ng, Rich Fulcher, Brenton Simpson, Yasmine Evjen, Alex Hays, Dave Chiu, Yarden Eitan, Zaina Alhawi, Dexter Reed, Michael Gilbert, Dave Crossland, Amber Bravo, Gaja Sidrys Caple, Jordan Fine, Sharon Harris, Cameron Hill and many, many, many more.
And of course a special thank you to
Zach Gibson &
Rachel Been for all your support, mentorship and wisdom throughout the years. 🥹 🥹 🥹
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