Michael Leggett

Gmail Design Lead and new dad.
The first 11 minutes of yesterday's @thedailyshow was some of the best TV EVER: http://t.co/HLVwp4G Bravo Jon & team. You nailed it.
Trying to come back to SxSW to talk about Google design: http://t.co/9mKgWxg – Vote it up if you're interested.
RT @kfury: How does Ron Paul get second in the Iowa straw poll, yet get completely ignored by the media? Jon Stewart nails it: http://t.co/bGHXqFD
RT @jonwiley: I'll be speaking at UX Week at the end of August: http://t.co/psL2Wkg
Urbanized: new film From people behind Helvetica and Objectified. Tickets just went on sale for SF & will be gone soon: http://t.co/6R9Tfpr
RT @kfury: I'd support an amendment that stated that any wars we got in to had to be paid for completely with new taxes.
RT @jasoncornwell: Do you know someone with an embarrassing email address from the 90s? Help them out by staging an email intervention! http://t.co/J46itGC
RT @gmail: New inbox styles to help you manage your mail in the way that works best for you: http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2011...
I love these. - Stephen Mack
Andy Hertzfeld sets record straight re his role on Google+ (not the design lead). Gives credit to designers: https://plus.google.com/1178406... - class act
New @Gmail design is opt-in: Mail Settings > Themes > Choose the "Preview" theme – should be available to everyone now.
So white! So bright! Google Calendar too! This will take some getting used to. - Tudor Bosman
Thanks! This is only the beginning... the end state looks much better. :) - Michael Leggett
So big! Even the "dense" theme doesn't display as much as the current default theme - Benjamin Golub
New @Gmail design is opt-in: Mail Settings > Themes > Choose the "Preview" theme – should be available to all in next 20 minutes.
Re: "Google finally hired some designers" comments. We've always been here - just finally being given the authority to do something bold.
RT @Cabel: First Google+, now a pretty nice new Google Web Fonts browser — http://www.google.com/webfont... — is 2011 the year I stop snickering at Google's design?
And when I say "redesigning Google" – I mean ALL of Google... not just search.
We are redesigning Google this summer. @cwiggins introduces what is just the beginning to some big changes: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011...
RT @cwiggins: A little video about our new social project, Google+ http://www.youtube.com/watch...
Today is going to be a big day at Google. Starts with a bang: Google+ (Google's social project) Interactive tour: http://www.google.com/intl...
Looks to be a beautiful day.
Except that it's grey and cloudy and gross and cold in Berkeley ;) - Georgia
Inspiration for the interactive guitar on Google.com: http://mta.me (by Alexander Chen, one of the people behind the Google doodle).
That's really cool. - Stephen Mack
Play, record, and share music with a guitar – amazing interactive doodle on http://www.google.com/ today. About: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011...
That's impressive. - Stephen Mack
And one more thing... in Lion, "you can now resize a window from any side or corner." http://www.apple.com/macosx...
Oh look at how big he is!!! LOVE these!! - Rachel Lea Fox