Google wants to make its products more human
By Reuters
07 November 2018 |
5:30 am
Google wants to make its products more human Ivy Ross, Google’s VP of hardware design, talked about his plans for the future during an interview with ‘The Verge.’ Ross discussed the evolution of human design language within Google’s products.
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