Rachel Been @rachelbeen Twitter profile

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Rachel Been

@rachelbeen

1 year

Now officially director of design at @Airbnb ❤️

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7 years

So proud that I work for @Google right now. Fight the Muslim Ban. #googlersunite

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We launched the Google Home App on mobile, Pixel Watch and the new Pixel Tablet today. I'm biased but its *chefs kiss* ❤️

Google’s redesigned Home app was a long time coming

The dark days are finally past us.

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5 years

Personal news! After five years of being a founding member and creative director for the Material Design team, im heading to Google Nest to lead a design team exploring the future of computing in the home. Thank you @materialdesign ! Hello @googlenest !

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❤️ Great work team!

Brian Chesky

@bchesky

8 months

Airbnb 2023 Winter Release (sound on🔈)

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4 years

Couldn’t be more proud of my design team today - we launched a beautiful new speaker and a stellar update to Chromecast.

Google Chromecast (2020) review: reinvented — and now with a remote

Finding something to watch has never been easier.

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@rachelbeen

2 years

The power of great systems design :) Proud of my team!

Made by Google

@madebygoogle

2 years

Adjust the temperature—without getting off the couch.* With #GooglePixelWatch **, you can control your Nest home devices right from your wrist. #GoogleIO

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5 years

Material IRL @materialdesign

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1 year

I found these negatives from my father a year ago in my parents basement. I built a darkroom just to be to able print them.

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1 year

First day of school outfit. Super excited to join a great team - can’t wait to work for Teo Connor and see some old pals @BrendanPascoe @jonasnaimark Derek Kim

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@rachelbeen

4 years

We went a little off the rails with our dot voting in @figmadesign during @googlenest first all-virtual design sprint today.

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@rachelbeen

8 years

A step closer to addressing emoji gender inequality. Our proposal published today:

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Rachel Been

@rachelbeen

10 months

Seems small — but a huge, insanely important feature is coming.

Brian Chesky

@bchesky

10 months

2. Verified listings You shouldn’t have to worry that a listing is fake or isn’t where it says it is. That’s why we’ve built a new system to verify listings on Airbnb. Every verified listing will have an icon so you know it’s real

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@rachelbeen

4 years

I made a thing to make me feel better. A site that’s a running list of things I like during this terrible time. Anything good I should add?

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@rachelbeen

6 years

When a chat with @johnmaeda might actually be a hotline bling remake

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@rachelbeen

5 years

Ogling at these beautiful posters by my dear friend @Jeffersonch3ng for our exhibit in France. Thank you @paperchasepress for the gorgeous prints! 🙏🙏

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@rachelbeen

5 years

So proud to direct product sound guidelines with the brilliant @conor - the first of its kind for sound design.

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@rachelbeen

2 months

Whoomp there it is.

Brian Chesky

@bchesky

2 months

We’ve made it easier and more fun to plan group trips 🔊

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5 years

Excited to share new work next week at Google I/O. If your'e attending come check out our session about designing for machine learning patterns! #io2019 @GoogleDesign @materialdesign

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@rachelbeen

6 years

In a bathroom of FABS. @materialdesign

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@rachelbeen

4 years

Congrats to the ⁦ @googlenest ⁩ team and my super talented hubby ⁦ @bnsbrown11 ⁩ for launching a gorgeous thermostat (vid ⁦ @PhilipBattin ⁩)

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Rachel Been

@rachelbeen

8 years

. @agustin_fonts and I wrote an article about how we brought feminism to emojis

Taking the Equality Conversation to Emoji

Rachel Been, Designer @ Google & Agustin Fonts, Product Manager @ Google

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Rachel Been

@rachelbeen

4 years

Today was a perfect day to introduce my daughter to a San Francisco Castro dance party. #momala

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Rachel Been

@rachelbeen

4 years

I can’t express how excited I am to welcome @jencotton to our team. Some serious design power joining Googs!

Jen Cotton🔥

@jencotton

4 years

As for what’s next, I’ll be taking off some time before joining @kickass at Google Nest. I’m excited to work with Kate again and learn from the amazing @rachelbeen . It’s not very often you get to work with an old mentor and even rarer to have a power lady reporting chain ❤️👯‍♀️❤️

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@rachelbeen

6 years

Our new illustration work is one of the most beautiful parts of thanks to the talented @Jeffersonch3ng

Jefferson Cheng

@Jeffersonch3ng

6 years

Sampling of Material Design illustrations for the guidelines

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Rachel Been

@rachelbeen

9 years

Go material team go! #GoogleLogo http://t.co/F2rzHsgNnG

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Rachel Been

@rachelbeen

5 years

Excited for our @materialdesign collaboration with @johnmaeda for the Design Biennale in Saint Étienne, France. If you’re in the neighborhood, stop on by!

Biennale Internationale Design Saint-Étienne 2019 | Programme | Design in Tech

From early January to the end of March, Cité du design will collaborate with John Maeda, as part of the program Design in Tech Académie. During his...

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Rachel Been

@rachelbeen

2 years

Super proud of my design team. We announced our redesign of the Google Home App today. It’s going to be awesome.

Google

@Google

2 years

We redesigned the Google Home app to help you run your home, your way. You can add important devices, actions & automations — like turning off your lights — to your favorites, and you can access your camera live streams right from the app. Learn more ↓

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@rachelbeen

4 years

Just filmed our talk about home automation and inclusivity for @ghc this year staring at a toy kitchen and some moldy bread. Fitting.

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@rachelbeen

5 years

So proud of this super thoughtful dark theme design work from our team!

Material Design

@materialdesign

5 years

#MaterialTip 🌒→ Light & shadows help communicate hierarchy in a dark theme. Surfaces (like cards) are brighter at higher elevations.

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@rachelbeen

5 years

Telling my parents that I work on ambient computing leads to blank stares. Im sending them this Walt Mossberg article from 2017 as a primer -

Mossberg: The Disappearing Computer

Tech was once always in your way. Soon, it will be almost invisible

www.theverge.com

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@rachelbeen

5 years

My friend @jenniferdaniel is doing such a badass job running the emoji program at Google.

jennifer daniel

@jenniferdaniel

5 years

If you're interested in how this project kicked off the proposal to Unicode is publicly available. It talks about how current design implementations reinforce stereotypes and how emoji keyboards are twice as large as they need to be.

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@rachelbeen

5 years

Congrats team, beautiful launch! I have to say, I’ve been testing motion sense and it’s pretty 🔥 🔥 congrats to hub @bnbrown11 for launching WiFi 😘

Made by Google

@madebygoogle

5 years

"Hey Google, turn it up." 🔊 Learn more: #madebygoogle

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@rachelbeen

6 years

The culmination of a lot of fantastic work. Introducing, the evolution of Material Design. Check out our livestream talk in five minutes:

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@rachelbeen

2 months

Pro-tip for Airbnb hosts ✨ now you can long press profile/menu to quickly jump between hosting and traveling.

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@rachelbeen

4 years

Im super proud to have led the design for the launch between @googlenest and Mount Sinai — helping the hospital monitor and talk to patients via Nest cams and a specialized console to mitigate exposure to Covid-19.

Mount Sinai deploys Google Nest cameras for COVID-19 patient monitoring and communication |...

The ongoing global COVID-19 pandemic has sparked a lot of activity around remote care, but a new project by Mount Sinai hospital, working in collaboration

techcrunch.com

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Rachel Been

@rachelbeen

4 years

Never thought reading government planning would be such a relaxing read. Take a bubblebath with this one.

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Rachel Been

@rachelbeen

1 year

Sometimes I miss shooting photos. Our studio at @billboard looked like a freshman dorm room with weird leather shag rugs and broken furniture but we made some damn good work there (Nicki’s heels went right through that red pleather chair)

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Rachel Been

@rachelbeen

6 years

I love working at a place where I get a Claes Oldenburg puzzle piece for making buttons.

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Rachel Been

@rachelbeen

6 years

“Happy to quit for $90 million - no sexual harassment required” #googlewalkout

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Rachel Been

@rachelbeen

5 years

Thanks @johnmaeda we <3 you too.

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@rachelbeen

4 years

Four projects from @googlenest made the cut! Congrats team ❤️

Google Design

@GoogleDesign

4 years

🥁🥁🥁… Best of Google Design 2020 is officially here! This year’s featured projects, largely completed remotely, exemplify resilience & flexibility. Give a round of 👏👏👏 to our colleagues & explore our annual yearbook of brilliant works → #BestofGD

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Rachel Been

@rachelbeen

8 years

I coded a travel site with my pics, writing, recs. Copenhagen, Iceland, Japan to start.

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Rachel Been

@rachelbeen

5 years

Excited to see my old crew tomorrow!

Google Design

@GoogleDesign

5 years

#SPAN19 kicks off tomorrow! We’re busy getting 99 Scott ready for a full day of talks, workshops, #MaterialDesign demos & on-site art installations. See you in Bushwick (or follow along here) ✌️

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@rachelbeen

5 years

So damn into @glitch what a badass platform for the @materialdesign team to use for our projects.

anildash.com

@anildash

5 years

So many Googlers making cool projects on @Glitch to show off their work at #IO19 — I love this one from the Material Design team!

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@rachelbeen

6 years

This makes all the difference ❤️ @xoxo #xoxo2018

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@rachelbeen

4 years

This feature is seemingly simple - you come home, your house reacts, you leave, your house reacts - but designing for automation and presence is one of the most difficult things I have worked on.

Bye, Alexa. Google Home finally gets the Amazon Echo feature I've been waiting for

Maybe now I can stop relying on Alexa to handle this basic smart home task.

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@rachelbeen

6 years

We partnered with the super talented folks at @lyftdesignteam @Genius @NPR @ZapposDesign and @pocketcasts to incorporate Material Design into their products. Some really beautiful work.

Material Design

Build beautiful, usable products faster. Material Design is an adaptable system—backed by open-source code—that helps teams build high quality digital experiences.

m2.material.io

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@rachelbeen

4 years

Here’s a weird first: I’ll be speaking at two conferences - @ghc and @thenextweb tomorrow at the same exact time...

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Rachel Been

@rachelbeen

9 years

The new http://t.co/RpCny7JNSU site is now live! Check out our article on brand: http://t.co/IEGLoRU4xw http://t.co/1KRUhmcnzT

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Rachel Been

@rachelbeen

6 years

And speaking of awesome design system artifacts, check out what I picked up at Tokyu Hands.

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Rachel Been

@rachelbeen

5 years

I participated in this fun doc by the BBC about design studio culture @bbcuxd

BBC UX&D

@bbcuxd

5 years

What is studio culture? We reached out and spoke to design leaders and creatives from @AKQA @CoopDigital @GoogleDesign and @ustwo to find out why building and maintaining the culture was important to them too #studioculture @computerlovers @thevideocompany

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@rachelbeen

6 years

Love the podcast @CriminalShow and think @PhoebeVJudge is the best thing to happen to radio. Thank you for a brilliant live show. #XOXO2018

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@rachelbeen

6 years

The ultimate design systems gift ❤️ thank you @standardsmanual and @hamishsmyth for these glorious tomes.

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@rachelbeen

9 years

"There is a huge monkey in front of me." Musings at the #SPAN15 VR workshop with @brillhart

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@rachelbeen

5 years

I love this design work by @ppphhhiiilll and @jonasnaimark showcasing how a camera UI can communicate with the user. 😍

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@rachelbeen

6 years

Apparently my wedding was cool enough to nicely age into a Vice stock image?

Every Person You’ll Meet at a Wedding in Your 20s

Because you're going to go to a lot.

www.vice.com

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Rachel Been

@rachelbeen

9 years

This talk on talent by @ftrain is blowing my mind. #SPAN15

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Rachel Been

@rachelbeen

5 years

I have learned so much from @conor about sound - such an important product design discipline!

Run Dreamer

@Run_Dreamer

5 years

Fascinating talk by google sound designer @conor 👏 why we need to include sound design thinking when designing for tech

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@rachelbeen

6 years

These small moments of sexism boil my blood. Same sippy cup, but the labeled boy print is more valuable than the girl print. Do women always have to be reminded that they are worth less? @amazon do better.

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@rachelbeen

2 years

Design friends, we have a senior UX role open on our team right now. <3

1,000+ Senior Interaction Designer jobs in United States (55 new)

Today’s top 1,000+ Senior Interaction Designer jobs in United States. Leverage your professional network, and get hired. New Senior Interaction Designer jobs added daily.

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@rachelbeen

4 years

This was one of the most moving moments of this morning. ❤️ u @VanJones68

CNN

@CNN

4 years

“It’s easier to be a parent this morning. It’s easier to be a dad. It’s easier to tell your kids character matters. It matters. Tell them the truth matters." Van Jones reacts after CNN projected Joe Biden as the winner of the presidential election.

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5 years

The lovely folks at @uenodotco invited me to chat about anything I want. Most likely it’ll be a sprinkling of Kanye west, emojis, machine learning, color theory and reggaetón

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@rachelbeen

3 years

Thanks @GoogleATAP for the chat about ambient computing, enchanted objects, Colors Magazine, and my dream of dumb buttons!

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@rachelbeen

5 years

@RonAmadeo I was the art director on all of the imagery for Inbox, thank you for ❤️ we tried to make email a bit friendlier. I dearly dearly miss that product.

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@rachelbeen

5 years

Thanks @uenodotco for letting me chat about female welders and juggalos!

ueno.

@uenodotco

5 years

Thank you @rachelbeen for being a wonderful guest at last night's #ChattyHour in SF! 🙏

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@rachelbeen

6 years

This could be the most exquisite location for a design sprint I have ever encountered. #NationalGeographic

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Rachel Been

@rachelbeen

4 years

We worked with artists at Google to launch a series of four VOTE illustrations for Chromecast backdrops. Every little bit counts. #govote

Google using Chromecast screensavers to encourage people to vote

For the past few days, the Google.com homepage stateside has featured information on “how to vote this election,” and the Chromecast...

9to5google.com

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Rachel Been

@rachelbeen

6 years

Introducing Material Theming! #materialdesign #IO2018

Co.Design

@FastCoDesign

6 years

Exclusive: Meet Material Theming, @Google ’s ambitious design tool #io18

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@rachelbeen

5 years

I cry everyday for the loss of this.

Ron Amadeo

@RonAmadeo

5 years

Yes hello, I will be hosting a funeral service for Google Inbox all day at Ars Technica dot com. My heart goes out to the millions of bereaved Google customers. Remember that we're all in this together. Thank you.

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@rachelbeen

3 years

I love these products we launched last week. So beautiful. Proud of the team!

Made by Google

@madebygoogle

3 years

Installation with wires can be like 😫 The new #NestDoorbell is battery-powered, which means you don’t need to be a home improvement expert to install it yourself ✅ Pre-order now:

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@rachelbeen

5 years

Thrilled to launch design pattern guidance for object detection with a dreamteam crew - @ppphhhiiilll @kunaldpatel @jonasnaimark this truly was a labor of love @materialdesign

Material Design

@materialdesign

5 years

📢 #MaterialDesign ML guidance just dropped! Explore new design principles and patterns for building apps w/ the #MLKit API, including object detection, barcode scanning & more:

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@rachelbeen

2 years

Good things are coming…

The Verge

@verge

2 years

Google Home app gets much-needed redesign with interactive buttons

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@rachelbeen

6 years

❤️ our sizzzzzle.

Material Design

@materialdesign

6 years

What if it was possible to design and build better? Announcing the latest #MaterialDesign release — a new approach to customizing your apps. #io18

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@rachelbeen

8 years

And we got on Colbert. My life is complete. @NicoleBleuel @agustin_fonts

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@rachelbeen

6 years

Thank you @johnmaeda - it was a pleasure working with you and the team!

John Maeda

@johnmaeda

6 years

Thanks to @rachelbeen @materialdesign team and our Design Ops head @alisonrand for a fab view and so many new learnings.

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@rachelbeen

4 years

At the pandemic’s onset, Nest launched a partnership with Merrill Gardens, a senior living community. We built a better video call experience on our Hubs, donating 1,000s + mitigating loneliness in lockdown. I discuss the project and universal design here:

Universal design: unifying human diversity and building access across the digital divide | ASA...

Slow tech adoption has amplified the digital disconnect brought on by the pandemic.

generations.asaging.org

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@rachelbeen

5 years

Agreed, obsessed with this lash extension icon

Cole Bemis

@colebemis

5 years

My favorite part of @figmadesign 's UI refresh... 👀

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@rachelbeen

6 years

What a grand statement, SXSW.

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@rachelbeen

6 years

Love my new watch! Thanks @_CortneyCassidy

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@rachelbeen

2 years

Our team worked on designing this new industry standard - incredibly complex, detailed design flows to make something historically difficult super easy for everyone.

Made by Google

@madebygoogle

2 years

Meet Matter 🎉 It’s an open industry standard that connects our Google Nest devices with top brands and hundreds of supported products like lightbulbs, door locks, smart plugs, and a lot more—launching this fall. #GoogleIO

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6 years

❤️ “Under the hood, this is an incredibly complex plugin, with lots of moving parts, but for Sketch users it’s beautifully simple and transforms the daunting task of building a design system into an almost trivial one.”

Sketch

@sketch

6 years

You can now create and customize your Google Material Design system exclusively in Sketch with Google's new Material Theme Editor. Find out more in our blog post.

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@rachelbeen

5 years

Congrats @SustainableBen on this badass and highly functional Muji aroma diffuser :)

Google Nest Wifi review: the smarter mesh router

Google’s latest mesh router system is even faster and more capable than before.

www.theverge.com

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Rachel Been

@rachelbeen

5 years

technology enables more working hours - hours that are disproportionately benefitting fathers, not mothers. ⁦ @clairecm ⁩

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Rachel Been

@rachelbeen

6 years

Theming systems 😍

Freehand by InVision

@InVisionApp

6 years

Develop a theming system that works across all the individual UI pieces of the design system with @_sadowski_

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@rachelbeen

5 years

My favorite moment at Neri Oxman’s Mediated Matter Lab was when biologist Sunanda Sharma told us that silk worms were the only domesticated insect in the world 🤯

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Rachel Been

@rachelbeen

6 years

Anytime @johnmaeda always enjoy our discussions!

John Maeda

@johnmaeda

6 years

Thanks for the excellent convo today on designer/developer stereotypes, and on scaling design with systems @rachelbeen !!

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Rachel Been

@rachelbeen

7 years

Thanks @brian_lovin this was super fun!

Brian Lovin

@brian_lovin

7 years

This week's @designdetailsfm with @rachelbeen was so good - digging deep on design systems and lying to celebrities:

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@rachelbeen

4 years

Gorgeous cover and beautiful interactive experience. ❤️ @KadirNelson

The New Yorker

@NewYorker

4 years

An early look at next week’s cover, "Say Their Names," by @KadirNelson :

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7 years

We launched a @materialdesign color tool today!

Google for Developers Blog - News about Web, Mobile, AI and Cloud

developers.googleblog.com

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@rachelbeen

6 years

Designers who are parents : @grimmstoys are beautiful and I play with them more than my daughter.

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Rachel Been

@rachelbeen

5 years

Proud of my spatial and floral design skills tonight #BiennaleDesign19

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@rachelbeen

6 years

🎉🎉🎉

Material Design

@materialdesign

6 years

Does P stand for Pixel-Perfect typesetting? 🕵️ #AndroidP introduces baseline alignment and simplified line height adjustment to get your typography just right 👌

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@rachelbeen

5 years

I was interviewed with peers @oznur and @jesscon about the intersection of design guidance and machine learning. Jess and I have been talking together about these ideas for too long, so nice to see them in the wild

Google Design

@GoogleDesign

5 years

“We’re setting up the scaffolding so our users can understand this new technology.” Learn how designers can harness and humanize AI’s vast potential, in this thought-provoking Q&A with @Google ’s @rachelbeen , @oznur , and @jessscon :