David Allin Reese

Designer

Let’s share a moment together. I’m a currently the visual and product design lead on the AR team at Google, working on AI-powered smartglasses experiences. Previously I was visual design lead on the Material Design team at Google, empowering designers with helpful AI-assisted design tooling and documentation, all while influencing and contributing to one of the largest design systems in the world.

A deep fascination in speculative design surrounds my interests in design systems, user-interface design, brand, illustration, and product development. I work in the future, and try to balance the fanastical with the practical to influence the final product.

As someone who contributes to writing the rulebook that is design guidelines, I pride myself on breaking the habitual in an effort to shape new paradigms. I currently live on a big hill in San Francisco with the fog and we would love to hear how you are doing. Don’t be afraid to reach out, it’s important that you do. Please check out my resume too.

Selected work

It should be noted that the because of the speculative, and often internal, nature of my work, the projects listed here are a small subset that I can publicly share. Please reach out if you wanna speak deeply about these things.

Google Material Design System

Expressing Google's digital soul

Material.io

Pushing visual expression in design documentation

This Is What Is In

A mutating newsletter

A Material Button Is More Than a Button

A button is the new logo

Material Theme Builder

Visualize and share a Material Theme

The Fortnightly

A forkable example news app