A live timeline of conference sessions, classes, podcasts, and whatever else I’m up to in design.

2024


2023


2022


2021


TALKS

Material Design Theming Sessions

Private Partner Series focused on Material Theming adoption. Regular virtual design reviews and work sessions over four weeks.

Typographics TypeLab

Na Praceta Do Girassol: The Time, Place, and Identity Encoded in a Typeface

2020


COLLECTIONS

The Herb Lubalin Study Center collection | New York City

Cherrier Typeface

The Updike Collection on the History of Printing | Providence, Rhode Island

Girassol Typeface

PRESS

Design Notes in Fast Company

Designers at Apple, MoMA, and more share the podcasts they never miss

Rooki.Design Interview

Liam Spradlin

TALKS

Flutter Interact

Designing for the Web with Flutter

Google Developer Days China

Material Theming: Build Expressively with Material Components (video)

UX London

Building Design Systems with Google’s Material Design

Private session with CUNY design students

A talk and roundtable on the History of Design At Google.

MENTORSHIP

Google I/O

1:1 Design reviews for attendees.

2019


PODCAST

Background Noise

Liam Spradlin, Google Design Advocate and host of Design Notes

TALKS

Google SPAN

Meet Material Theme Editor

GDG NYC

What's New in Material Design

MODERATION

Design Is [...]

Design Is [Systematic]

MENTORSHIP

Google I/O

1:1 Design reviews for attendees.

2018


PODCAST

Method Podcast (Guest Host)

Google IxD: Interview with Roman Nurik

TALKS

GDD China

Elevated UX

.droidconNYC

Elevated UX: How the foundations of Material Design influence user experience

GDD Krakow

The way forward (and back): Defining successful navigation in your app

GDE Summit Krakow

Tooltips: Cross-functional collaboration at Google

Google for Mobile Seoul

The way forward (and back): Defining successful navigation in your app

Design-JP 第3回 : コラボレーションツール

Tooltips: Cross-functional collaboration at Google

Google for Mobile Tokyo

The way forward (and back): Defining successful navigation in your app

NY Android Developers Meetup

Navigating your UI

MENTORSHIP

Area 120 Startup Weekend

Mentorship for startup teams participating in a Startup Weekend from Area 120, Google’s internal startup accelerator.

Google I/O

1:1 Design reviews for attendees.

2017


2016


PRESS

Underscore

The Next Step for Design is Mutation

ComputerWorld - Android Intelligence

How I Use Android: App designer and Android blogger Liam Spradlin

TALKS

NY Android Developers Meetup

Meet Project Phoebe: A moonshot concept for mutative design

Google Startup Launchpad

GDE Program Panelist

NY Android Developers Meetup

How do we show all this stuff?

Droidcon NYC 2015

Your Brand in a Material World

NY Android Developers Meetup

Your Brand in a Material World

2015