Design Notes

Liam Spradlin
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Design Notes

Design Notes is a podcast 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. Find episodes on your favorite platform: pod.link/designnotes

  1. Code, Creativity, Performance: Will Larche, Engineering Manager, Google

    OCT 21

    Code, Creativity, Performance: Will Larche, Engineering Manager, Google

    This season's special series celebrating ten years since the launch of Material Design continues with Software Engineering Manager and Musical Theater Writer Will Larche, who talks about his path to become an engineering manager at Google. Larche, a self-proclaimed “design fan,” describes engineering as “creativity with constraints.” Here, he explains how the development of Material over the years has led to closer collaboration between design and engineering, and imagines how new AI experiments might open up a new era of “Star Trek design.”

    44 min
  2. Fab Components: Bethany Fong, Design Director

    SEPT 9

    Fab Components: Bethany Fong, Design Director

    This episode is part of a special series celebrating ten years of Material Design. In the episode, Liam speaks with Bethany Fong, a Design Director at Meta who was a pivotal figure in the creation of Material Design. During her time at Google, Fong was responsible for designing the first set of Material components (including Material’s signature Floating Action Button), and went on to become a design Lead on the team. In their conversation, Liam and Bethany talk about the tactile nature of design, the importance of keeping a notebook, and how the heady early days of Material unfolded. 👉 Read a full transcript 📻 Subscribe to Design Notes

    45 min
  3. Facing Our Interfaces: Matías Duarte, Google

    MAY 15

    Facing Our Interfaces: Matías Duarte, Google

    This season begins with a special series celebrating ten years since the launch of Material Design, which will explore the inception, evolution, and future of Google’s design approach. The first episode features the founder of Material Design and Design VP Matías Duarte, whose work on the system has pushed design forward at Google and across devices everywhere. In their conversation, Liam and Matías unpack how interfaces are made, used, and understood—and identify opportunities to move them further into the future via a highly crafted, individualized design approach. 👉 Read a full transcript 📻 Subscribe to Design Notes

    45 min
  4. Designing Better Code: Connie Shi + Matvei Malkov, Google Material Design

    2023-03-14

    Designing Better Code: Connie Shi + Matvei Malkov, Google Material Design

    Liam speaks with Googlers Connie Shi, a software engineer on Material Design, and Matvei Malkov, a software engineer on Jetpack Compose, and the trio unpack what makes coding a creative practice, and which creative choices are required when you build a design system for other developers around the world. The wide-ranging conversation turns from complex problem solving and technical logic to the concept of creativity as the question-provoking quality of a thought. 📝 Read a full transcript 📻 Subscribe to Design Notes

    42 min
  5. How Fonts Change the World: Dave Crossland, Google Fonts

    2023-01-31

    How Fonts Change the World: Dave Crossland, Google Fonts

    Liam and Google Fonts Specialist Dave Crossland explore what digital type can teach us about digital production, emotional expression, and where we fit in the world as designers; and how – with a little imagination – we might unlock new possibilities. 📑 Read a full transcript 📻 Subscribe to Design Notes

    37 min
  6. Coding (and Decoding) Social Spaces: Judith Donath, Founder, MIT Sociable Media Group

    2022-12-20

    Coding (and Decoding) Social Spaces: Judith Donath, Founder, MIT Sociable Media Group

    In this episode, Liam speaks with Judith Donath, the founder of MIT’s Sociable Media Lab, inventor of e-cards, and author of The Social Machine: Designs for Living Online. Donath’s work offers crucial insights into the sociality of digital products and platforms, and the opportunities we have as digital producers to make things that truly meet sociable ends. In the episode, Donath unpacks some of this work, exploring potential futures for life online and the joy of learning (and sharing) something new. 📑 Read a full transcript 📻 Subscribe to Design Notes

    37 min
  7. Fearless Design: Aline Borges, The Florist

    2022-11-22

    Fearless Design: Aline Borges, The Florist

    Liam speaks with Aline Borges, a Zürich-based floral designer who’s made the leap from fashion coordination for magazines like Vogue and Harper’s Bazaar to independent floral design and installations. The conversation covers what it’s like to move between different creative fields (and countries), how to think about composition to tackle almost any creative challenge, and the courage and community it takes to start on a new venture. 📑 Read a full transcript 📻 Subscribe to Design Notes

    29 min
  8. ⏮️ How Machines Help Us See Ourselves: Harvey Moon, New Media Artist

    2022-10-25

    ⏮️ How Machines Help Us See Ourselves: Harvey Moon, New Media Artist

    In this episode, we revisit a conversation from Season 1 with new media artist Harvey Moon, recorded in his San Francisco studio. Liam and Harvey discuss how Moon’s work reveals unseen properties of the world around us, the process of creating one’s own creative tools, and the kind of art that’s only made possible through collaboration with machines. The conversation expands on ideas about the way the world around us is designed and redesigned, and where that places us as designers. Read the full transcript: https://www.iamli.am/design-notes-podcast/harvey-moon-new-media-artist  Subscribe to Design Notes: 👉Google Podcasts 👉iTunes 👉Spotify 👉Pocket Casts 👉RSS

    31 min
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Design Notes is a podcast 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. Find episodes on your favorite platform: pod.link/designnotes

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  • Creator
    Liam Spradlin
  • Years Active
    2015 - 2024
  • Episodes
    56
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Copyright
    © All rights reserved
  • Show Website
    Design Notes

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