Designer Matias Duarte on steering the "ocean liner" that is Android

When crossing over from leading user experience at Palm to Google two years ago, Android’s design lead Matias Duarte had to reconsider how he would implement ideas in an environment where it would be difficult — if not impossible — to enforce any of them.

“The biggest thing I had to do was just understand how to manipulate the giant aircraft carrier that is Android,” he said in an interview last week at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.

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