Episode 40: Material World

This time, Tor and Chet talk with Nicholas Jitkoff from the Material group about... Material Design. And design in general. And engineering. And splash screens. And other stuff.

Favorite words: Materiality. Skiamorphic.

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Relevant Links

Material Design
Zombo

Nicholas: google.com/+NicholasJitkoffJ, @alcor
Tor: google.com/+TorNorbye, @tornorbye
Chet: google.com/+ChetHaase, @chethaase

Thanks to continued tolerance and support by our audio engineer, Bryan Gordon.

Episode 36: UX Rules

In this episode, we talk with Rachel Garb from the Android User Experience team. Tune in to hear about interaction design and about how the Android system UI (including the new volume slider UI in Android M) is designed and user-tested.

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Relevant Links

Material Design Spec
Android Design for Success (Google I/O 2012)
Don't Make Me Think (Steve Krug)
The Inmates are Running the Asylum (Alan Cooper)

Rachel: google.com/+RachelGarb, medium.com/@rachelgarb, @rachelgarb
Tor: google.com/+TorNorbye, @tornorbye
Chet: google.com/+ChetHaase, @chethaase

Episode 24: Roman Holiday

Tor and Chet are joined by Roman Nurik from the Android Developer Relations team. We talk about Asset Studio to the Muzei wallpaper to Material Design to Android Studio application templates to watchfaces to icons to the Google I/O scheduling app to Android application design to the FORM conference. I guess he's been busy.

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Relevant Links:

Dashclock: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.nurik.roman.dashclock
DashClock Code: https://code.google.com/p/dashclock/
Muzei: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.nurik.roman.muzei
Muzei Code: https://github.com/romannurik/muzei
Android Asset Studio: http://romannurik.github.io/AndroidAssetStudio/
Android Design Preview: https://github.com/romannurik/AndroidDesignPreview
Android Wear Watchfaces: https://developer.android.com/training/wearables/watch-faces/index.html
FORM: http://www.google.com/design/form/
Google I/O App: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.samples.apps.iosched
Google I/O App Code: https://github.com/google/iosched
Material Design: http://www.google.com/design/spec/material-design/introduction.html

Roman: google.com/+RomanNurik
Tor: google.com/+TorNorbye
Chet: google.com/+ChetHaase

Episode 21: Material Designification

Tor and Chet are joined by Kirill Grouchnikov from the Play Store team (What, again? Don't these guys know more than twenty developers?) about various aspects of implementing Material Design in applications, including handling releases prior to Android 5.0 Lollipop.

Favorite quote:
"It's like redesigning the whole pig"

Least favorite quote:
"Boooongggggg!"
(I really need to learn where the edge of the metal table is when I'm moving a bottle of water. At least after I hit it the first time.)

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Relevant Links:

Material Design: http://www.google.com/design/spec/material-design/introduction.html
Creating Apps with Material Design: http://developer.android.com/training/material/index.html
Roboto: http://www.google.com/fonts/specimen/Roboto

Kirill: google.com/+KirillGrouchnikov
Tor: google.com/+TorNorbye
Chet: google.com/+ChetHaase

Android Developers Backstage - Episode 9: Design

Tor and Chet make a startling break with ancient tradition and talk to a real, live designer in this episode: Christian Robertson from the Android User Experience team. Tune in to hear about the Roboto font that Christian created and about font design in general, plus design tips for layout, visual rhythm, and other Android designities.

Design: It's the new Develop.

Relevant links:

Android Design: https://developer.android.com/design/index.html
Android Style Guide: http://developer.android.com/design/style/index.html
Android Asset Studio: http://romannurik.github.io/AndroidAssetStudio/
Roboto: http://www.google.com/fonts/specimen/Roboto

Christian: https://plus.google.com/110879635926653430880/posts
Tor: google.com/+TorNorbye
Chet: google.com/+ChetHaase

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