Domo arigato, Google: zooming in on Roboto, the new Android typeface

October 31, 2011 11:49 AM Jolie O'Dell
Jolie O'Dell

Editor's Pick

In the months to come, you will start associating the Android mobile operating system with beautiful design, if Matias Duarte, the Chilean-American designer who currently serves as Google’s director of Android user experience, has anything to say about it.

Google’s …

“The ugly cousin” no more: inside Android’s beautiful new design

October 26, 2011 9:16 AM Jolie O'Dell
Jolie O'Dell

Editor's Pick

For too long, Android has been the ugly cousin to Apple’s iOS in terms of design. But with the release of Android 4.0, a.k.a. Ice Cream Sandwich, all that is changing.

For perhaps the first time, “The way things look …