GSuite Redesign
2017 Visual refresh for 2018 Releases
Collaborators
Boulder, CO team led by Margaret Cyphers
Project Space
The GSuite historically hadn't been a cohesive family and was inconsistent across platforms (mobile, web and android). 'GSuite United' was an initiative to unify the design language across products. For most, this initiative is jsut a side project, but one that needed 'one source of truth'. I was tasked with creating new unified specs.
My Role
Visual Design Intern
Problems with the Solution
Google has spec sheets up to their ears, and yet there are still enough inconsistencies to be a problem. Inconsistencies are prevalent within a design team, across design teams, and even in the code. Beyond that, constantly having to find and cross reference the multitude of spec sheets available can be a drain on the creative process.
I needed some meta rethinking.
A New Sort of Solution
We needed to reconsider the meta system inside the company both across time, and disciplines. Going off previous front-end experience, and meetings with different designers, and engineers, I decided on making a new kind of responsive, modular component library to expediate both the design process, and the handoff to engineers.
Plugin with Sketch to build in a custom hotkey that turns on and off the *SPEC layers. These were the the layers made to resemble Chrome Inspector, with a nomenclature that matched the desired css 
organizing all the symbols to have easy access to any variant, and building in appropriate overrides for variable properties