Making Things — October 1, 2019


Artwork by Jonas Naimark, Google Motion Designer


Shades of gray

“We looked at over 150 different shades of gray fabric to find the perfect color and texture.” Core77 and VP of Hardware Ivy Ross get into the nitty-gritty of choosing materials for Google Home products.

How to build a (data) table 🛠

Last month, we unveiled more accessible Material Design data tables. This month, Google Developer Advocate Una Kravets explains how to put our data table code into action for web apps.

Tool time

Designers, tell us: What tools do you swear by? What convinces you to adopt a new process? Add your voice to Google’s UX tools survey (👇) to help improve the ways our industry works ✊

Be Counted: UX Design Tools Survey


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