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Your best Material
Our annual Material Design Awards are back, celebrating the brilliant, inventive, meaningful ways designers and developers adopt and evolve the system. Nominate your work—and 👀 the August 24 deadline.
In conversation
“A better user experience is born when technology communicates like people, and not the other way around.” Learn how the burgeoning field of conversation design combines linguistics with modern computing, in an essay from Cathy Pearl, Google’s Head of Conversation Design Outreach.
What does UX sound like?
Effective sound design goes beyond bells and whistles. Watch (and listen) as four professional sound designers—including Google’s own Conor O’Sullivan—discuss the ways noise, dialogue, and even silence shape UX. Gets hands on afterwards with Material’s open-source audio files 👇
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