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Shift into darkness

Welcome to the new age of dark design. Explore how four Google products adapted Material Design’s dark theme guidance—including details on desaturated color palettes, low-contrast gray backgrounds, and increased legibility.

Future forecasting

Did you know? Google has an entire team of designers who dream up the future of tech. Tune in to Method to hear these masters of speculative design discuss how they prototype the future.

Chart a new course 📈

Attention aspiring chart-creators and graph-makers: Material’s first-ever data viz guidance has landed. Dig into the nitty-gritty specs on communicating complex information through graphics.