A live timeline of conference sessions, classes, podcasts, and whatever else I’m up to in design.
TALK
UX Research & Strategy Seminar Japan by Members Co. Ltd.
The Real Promise of AI in Design: Beyond Productivity and Toward Subjectivity
PODCAST
Techsploder
Liam Spradlin (Material Design, typeface creation, ‘bad’ design)
TEACHING
Queer Coding Camp
2024
PRESS
It’s Nice That
WRITING
Scratching the Surface
Reshaping our expectations for generative design
TALKS
Front Conference Zürich
The Real Promise of AI in Design: Beyond Productivity and Towards Intersubjectivity
Google I/O Connect 2023
Flutter Forward 2023
Material 3 from design to deployment
TEACHING
Queer Coding Camp
2023
TALKS
Web Directions Summit 2022
A New Future for the Interface: Reaching Toward True Adaptation
Android Dev Summit 2022
Canonical layouts and visual hierarchy: Designing for larger screens
Droidcon Italy 2022
The Future of Design is Still Personal: Reaching Toward True Adaptation
Droidcon NYC 2022
The Future of Design is Still Personal: Reaching Toward True Adaptation
Android Makers France
The Future of Design is Still Personal: Reaching Toward True Adaptation
2022
PRESS
Medium Creators
The Best Writing Advice of 2021
Android Central
Lovers Magazine
PODCASTS
Waveform: The MKBHD Podcast
Design Huddle
Liam Spradlin from Google Material Design talks about creating design systems and designing…
TALKS
Android Developer Summit 2021
Design beautiful apps on foldables and large screens
Google I/O 2021
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
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
GDG NYC
MODERATION
Design Is [...]
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
.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
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
PRESS
Nova Launcher billboards in NYC
Greenbot - Android Influencers
Android Influencer: Touchlab's Liam Spradlin talks design
TALKS
DevFest NYC
Pixel Perfect & Practical: Everyday Android Design Workflows
Droidcon UK
The living interface: what's new in mutative design
Best use of Material motion design contest (judge)
Droidcon NYC
Android Summit
Mutative Design: What's new in Project Phoebe
Android Camp NYC
The living interface: Mutative design
Private talk, Mountainview CA
The living interface: Mutative design
NY Android Developers Meetup
Mutative design: What it's like to use a mutative interface
NYC Apps Meetup @ IDEO
The living interface: Mutative design
MCE 2016, Warsaw
The living interface: Mutative design
GDG Warsaw Meetup
Color: Hierarchy, interactivity, meaning, brand, and choosing the right palette + Q&A
GDG Newark Meetup
Mutative design: What it's like to use a mutative interface
Droidcon San Francisco
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