This need came out of the increasing necessity for Chrome’s design process to become more future proof. Our goal at the time was not only to bring the new design to life on the upcoming new screen resolutions and density ratios(1x and 2x) but also to rethink and facilitate the way we collaborate with engineering by organizing our workflow process and asset repositories. It also gave me an accelerated course through all the design decisions that have been made so far. The Chromebook Pixel was slated for a release on February 2013, a bit after the Macbook Pro.Īs a noogler, this experience introduced me to the complexity and intricacy of the Chrome browser design.

While I was splitting my time between the browser and the OS, I have been slowly transitioning to a full-time role on ChromeOS over the past year.īack in 2012, One of my first big project as a new Chrome team member was to make the freshly redesigned Chrome Core UI of the time compatible with high resolution displays such as the first Macbook Pro Retina and the first Chromebook Pixel, which was sporting Google’s version of the retina display. I have been working on Chrome and Chrome OS for almost 5 years as a visual designer. If you didn’t read it, I’d recommend it as it is an integral part of the thinking process for Chrome desktop, its chronological successor. If you read my previous article about Redesigning Chrome for Android, this one will be similar although I tried, somewhat unsuccessfully, to keep it lighter on the technical details… and it’s only in one part this time. Windows is the culmination of that process and while Chrome is never finished, it felt to me like the right time to take a look back and reflect on this process that almost took 2 years, hopefully delivering some details and experiences that might be useful to you.

It is the last step of a three phase deployment of the new design,which started in 51 with Chrome OS and Linux, followed by macOS in 52. In the beginning of September 2016, the new Chrome Core UI redesign, or so called “Chrome MD” (for Material design), rolled out on Windows as part of our 53rd update.

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