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JUDGE IVY ROSS VP DESIGN FOR HARDWARE, GOOGLE

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Since forming her department in 2016, Ross has led her team to launch and establish Google’s family of award-winning consumer hardware products, from Google Pixel smartphone­s to Nest smart speakers, all distinctiv­e in their bold, tactile and intuitive design. The pandemic has seen Google staff working remotely and, like so many others, having to rethink the way they finesse and deliver designs for products that will launch in 2021. ‘Design is about solving problems, and our team has figured out how to solve the problem of not being together,’ she says. Ross feels the pandemic has put the notion of wellbeing front and centre, as we reconsider ‘what makes us feel alive, happy, what’s essential, what’s life-reinforcin­g’, as well as what our behaviours mean for the planet. Voting for Nmbello Studio’s portable handwashin­g station as Life-enhancer of the Year (opposite), she praises its simplicity but also ‘its ability to be fabricated locally. We should be creating more designs this way in the world’. store.google.com

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