Swede behind Google Ice Cream - Computer Sweden

“I will never forget the first day I met the group and saw people walking around with the craziest things on the head,” says Isabelle Olsson, lead designer of Google Ice Cream.

(CS / San Francisco) 2011 Isabelle Olsson began working with Google Ice Cream. Previously, she has designed e-reader Nook and worked with furniture. As the lead designer of Google Ice Cream, she has been the one who pushed the team to make the glasses as simple and minimalistic as possible. She has been a part of the project since the glasses were just a prototype built with bare circuit board mounted on a pair of sunglasses.

Class=”paragraphIntro”> – I never forget the first day I met the group and saw people walking around with the craziest things on her head, she says when she meets developers at Google’s developer conference I / O in San Francisco.

Although Google Ice Cream not been included as a feature of Google at this year’s conference, so it is apparent that interest among developers for the platform is great. No other lectures attracts so many people. Anyone who wears glasses inside the area might not feel stared at. Among the participants, there are many who are part of the utvecklarporgram that Google created around glasägonen. Unlike in many other utvecklig projects related to new consumer gadgets, Google has decided to drop out ice cream to many people before the technology is ready-Colours consumers. Something nädvändigt for developers to have enough test data from realistic user situations.

– When we started working on this, it was clear from the outset that we took something that already existed to make small improvements on it. We wanted to create something that was much more direct, intimate and intuitive t han what existed before, says Isabelle Olsson.

road from the first prototypes to the finished industrial design was long and Isabelle Olsson and her team focused on reducing weight.

– We took removed everything that was not absolutely necessary, she says.

regard hunt for gram describes Isabelle Olsson members of the development team who possessed.
– We care for each gram, because if the glasses are not lightweight so you will not want to wear them more than 10 minutes.

But desigen is not just about weight. The pressure on the nose is also determined by how glasägonen balanced.

– The way we chose material and how we placed the components so that they press less on the nose than ordinary sunglasses says Isabelle Olsson

Although appearance would the glasses she should feel easy.

– We have hid some of the major components behind the frame to create a pure expression of the page.