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About Google Chromebooks
Google Chromebooks reach millions of users worldwide. Working with Mosaic and Google, I contributed to the product design of gaming Chromebooks, focusing on clarity, usability, and scale.
Google Chromebooks reach millions of users worldwide. Working with Mosaic and Google, I contributed to the product design of gaming Chromebooks, focusing on clarity, usability, and scale.
Overview
As a Product Designer working with Mosaic and Google, I contributed to the design for gaming Chromebooks, which launched in 2022.
My work focused on improving key user journeys, simplifying complex interactions, and designing solutions that could scale across devices and use cases. I worked closely with product managers, engineers, and other designers to bring clarity and consistency to the product experience.
As a Product Designer working with Mosaic and Google, I contributed to the design for gaming Chromebooks, which launched in 2022.
My work focused on improving key user journeys, simplifying complex interactions, and designing solutions that could scale across devices and use cases. I worked closely with product managers, engineers, and other designers to bring clarity and consistency to the product experience.
Product
Desktop + Mobile
Skills
Product Design
Stakeholder Management
Interactive Prototyping
User research and testing
My Role
Product Design
Timeline
Q2 2022 - Q4 2022
Team
Stuart Thursby, Ben Clarke, Leigh Lenchner, Katie Eaton and Cole Sullivan
Snapshot
As a Product Designer on Google Chromebook, we had to work in a fast environment balancing user needs, technical constraints, and ambitious product goals. Key challenges included designing the interface for full support in 10 languages (handling layout flexibility, text expansion, and localization).
The website was designed to showcase Google Chromebook’s gaming capabilities to sales agents, helping them demonstrate the product to customers across 250+ stores in North America. Since many users were not familiar with Google Chromebooks in the gaming space, the site featured interactive 3D navigation, motion-led sequences, and localized content in 4 languages to make a strong impact, engage visitors, and highlight Chromebook’s performance and versatility in gaming.
As a Product Designer on Google Chromebook, we had to work in a fast environment balancing user needs, technical constraints, and ambitious product goals. Key challenges included designing the interface for full support in 10 languages (handling layout flexibility, text expansion, and localization).
The website was designed to showcase Google Chromebook’s gaming capabilities to sales agents, helping them demonstrate the product to customers across 250+ stores in North America. Since many users were not familiar with Google Chromebooks in the gaming space, the site featured interactive 3D navigation, motion-led sequences, and localized content in 4 languages to make a strong impact, engage visitors, and highlight Chromebook’s performance and versatility in gaming.
Some Stats
Website supported sales demonstrations in 250+ stores across North America.
Website supported sales demonstrations in 250+ stores across North America.
Positioned the product within a rapidly scaling Chromebook ecosystem, aligning with a market projected to grow 3× over the next decade, reinforcing long-term platform relevance.
Positioned the product within a rapidly scaling Chromebook ecosystem, aligning with a market projected to grow 3× over the next decade, reinforcing long-term platform relevance.
Capitalized on Chromebooks’ 2×–3× battery life advantage and frame rate over comparable Windows gaming laptops, enabling longer, uninterrupted gaming sessions and improved portability.
Capitalized on Chromebooks’ 2×–3× battery life advantage and frame rate over comparable Windows gaming laptops, enabling longer, uninterrupted gaming sessions and improved portability.
Constraints
Gaming Chromebooks required balancing high-performance messaging with Chrome OS simplicity, ensuring the experience felt powerful without overwhelming users. The site had to communicate cloud and hybrid gaming clearly while maintaining fast load times and accessibility.
Gaming Chromebooks required balancing high-performance messaging with Chrome OS simplicity, ensuring the experience felt powerful without overwhelming users. The site had to communicate cloud and hybrid gaming clearly while maintaining fast load times and accessibility.
Constellation of Constraints
Built the website while navigating strict brand rules, typefaces, and internal approvals.
Built the website while navigating strict brand rules, typefaces, and internal approvals.
Designed interactive 3D navigation with a motion designer, delivering 8+ motion sequences optimized for instant visual engagement.
Fully adapted in 4 languages, accounting for worst-case scenarios in headings, buttons, and layout flexibility.
Experience
Impact
Following launch, the work on Google Chromebooks helped shape how users encountered new platform features and form-factor enhancements across devices. The experience design contributed to clearer, more intuitive interactions that supported both productivity and accessibility goals at scale.
Post-launch coverage from Google highlighted these updates as meaningful improvements to the Chromebook experience, underscoring how thoughtful experience design translated complex system changes into user-facing clarity and value.
Following launch, the work on Google Chromebooks helped shape how users encountered new platform features and form-factor enhancements across devices. The experience design contributed to clearer, more intuitive interactions that supported both productivity and accessibility goals at scale.
Post-launch coverage from Google highlighted these updates as meaningful improvements to the Chromebook experience, underscoring how thoughtful experience design translated complex system changes into user-facing clarity and value.
