Artwork by Matthew Hollister, Google Visual Designer

Vision quest 🔮

There’s versioning—making iterative improvements—and then there’s visioning. Find out why YouTube’s design team prefers the latter technique for exploring new terrain and making big leap changes.

Bauhaus is Everywhere

Cap off a year of Bauhaus celebrations (the famous design school turned 100!) by digging into a new online museum from Google Arts & Culture. Come for the Gropius, Breuer, and Kandinsky archives; stay for the photos of Bauhauslers in costume.

Winner’s circle 🏆

What does it take to win a Material Design Award? The founders of this year’s honored apps—Reflectly, Ruff, Scripts, and Trip.com—swung by Design Notes to talk about their secret sauce. Tune in 👇