Matías Duarte
| Matías Duarte | |
|---|---|
| Born |
Matías Gonzalo Duarte Sunkel Talca, Chile[1] |
| Occupation | Vice President of Design at Google |
Matías Duarte (born December 7, 1973) is a Chilean computer interface designer and Google's Vice President of Design. Prior to his current role, he was the Director of Android User Experience. Android 3.0 "Honeycomb" was the first release with major elements of his design influence. He has since left designing Android, and is working on other things.[2]
Prior to moving to Google to work on Android, Duarte had similar roles in Palm’s webOS,[3] the Helio Ocean[4] and the Danger Hiptop (T-Mobile Sidekick).[5]
Career
Duarte started his career at Psycroft where he cowrote xBill with Brian Wellington. He left Psycroft in 1996 at which time he moved to Hyper Image Productions where he was the lead designer on the Phase Zero hovercraft simulator. In 1997 he left Hyper Image Productions and moved to MagicArts where he filled the role of Vice President of Design until 1999. In March 2000 Duarte took a role at Danger as the Director of Design where his team won the 2002 Wired 'Industrial Designer' Rave Award[6] for their work in designing the Hiptop/SideKick. In August 2005 he took up a role at Helio, as Vice President Experience Design and left shortly before the company was acquired by Virgin Mobile. In September 2007 Duarte was hired as the Vice President at Palm, Inc. to lead development of Palm’s webOS Human Interface and User Experience and introduced the design of webOS at the 2009 Consumer Electronics Show. In May 2010 Duarte was hired by Google as Director for the Android User Experience working on the interface and design for Android 3.0 (AKA Honeycomb).[2]
Awards
- 2002 Wired Rave Award, Industrial Designer of the Year "to Matias Duarte [sic], Joe Palmer, and Andy Johnston for their work in designing Danger's hiptop communications device."[7]
Education
Duarte earned a Bachelor of Science with Honors from the University of Maryland Department of Computer Science in College Park (1992–1996). He took on additional concentrations of study in Fine Art and Art History, and managed the Student Art Gallery from 1993 to 1996 at the University of Maryland.
Personal life
Duarte had a daughter in June 2008.[8]
Patents
Matías Duarte is listed as inventor on multiple patents.
Mobile phones
- U.S. Patent D610,107 - Handheld Communication Device
- U.S. Patent 7,742,783 - Symmetric Softkeys On A Mobile Electronic Device
- U.S. Patent D606,060 - Keypad
- U.S. Patent D618,193 - Handheld Communication Device
- U.S. Patent D571,800 - Mobile Communication Device
- U.S. Patent D580,949 - User Interface For A Mobile Electronic Device
- U.S. Patent 6,836,404 - Handheld Display And Keyboard
Computer or data processors
- U.S. Patent 7,817,173 - Adjustable display for a data processing apparatus
- U.S. Patent 7,733,331 - Support And Adjustment Apparatus For A Data Processing Device Display
- U.S. Patent 7,808,477 - Scroll Disc Input Apparatus For A Data Processing Device
- U.S. Patent 7,221,559 - Multipurpose Bumper System For A Data Processing Apparatus
- U.S. Patent 7,262,761 - User Interface For Detecting A Data Entry Mode
- U.S. Patent D506,753 - Adjustable Data Processing Device
- U.S. Patent 7,280,346 - Adjustable Display For A Data Processing Apparatus
- U.S. Patent 7,636,748 - Display Configurations For A Data Processing Device
- U.S. Patent 7,187,364 - Data Processing Device Having Multiple Adjustable Display And Keyboard
- U.S. Patent 7,071,916 - User Input Configurations For A Data Processing Device
- U.S. Patent 6,836,404 - Handheld Display And Keyboard
- U.S. Patent 6,829,139 - Adjustable Data Processing Display
- U.S. Patent D484,503 - Adjustable Data Processing Device
- U.S. Patent 7,093,201 - Loop Menu Navigation Apparatus And Method
- U.S. Patent 6,907,575 - Method Of Scrolling A Display Window
- U.S. Patent 6,608,271 - Method Of Dynamically Lighting Keyboard Glyphs
- U.S. Patent 7,278,108 - System And Method Of Displaying Multiple Pending Notifications In A Single Window
- U.S. Patent 6,636,419 - Handheld Display And Keyboard
- U.S. Patent 7,224,373 - Adjustable Data Processing Display
Sound or musical equipment
- U.S. Patent D566,687 - Earbud For A Stereo Headset
- U.S. Patent D570,823 - Y-Connector For A Stereo Headset
Other
- U.S. Patent 7,091,957 - Directional Pad Having Integrated Acoustic System And Lighting System
Patent applications
- US Patent Search: 12,505,543 - User Interface For Initiating Activities In An Electronic Device
- US Patent Search: 12,472,551 - Access And Management Of Cross-Platform Calendars
- US Patent Search: 12,463,145 - Secondary Key Group Layout For Keyboard
- US Patent Search: 12,422,871 - System And Method For Providing Content To A Mobile Device
- US Patent Search: 12,417,871 - Preventing Unintentional Activation And/Or Input In An Electronic Device
- US Patent Search: 12,416,279 - Card Metaphor For Activities In A Computing Device
- US Patent Search: 12,404,869 - History Based Search Service Operable With Multiple Applications And Services
- US Patent Search: 12,402,386 - System And Method For Providing Content To A Mobile Device
- US Patent Search: 12,397,319 - Multi-Function Status Indicator For Content Receipt By A Mobile Computing Device
- US Patent Search: 12,347,827 - Integrated Mixed Transport Messaging System
- US Patent Search: 12,347,873 - Computing Device And Method For Selecting Display Regions
- US Patent Search: 12,341,514 - Enhanced Visual Feedback For Touch-Sensitive Input Device
- US Patent Search: 12,341,497 - Touch-Sensitive Display Screen With Absolute And Relative Input Modes
- US Patent Search: 12,324,678 - System And Method For Providing Advertisement Data Or Other Content
- US Patent Search: 12,324,694 - System And Method For Providing Advertisement Data To A Mobile Computing Device
- US Patent Search: 12,200,782 - Notifying A User Of Events In A Computing Device
- US Patent Search: 12,128,486 - Structured Displaying Of Visual Elements
- US Patent Search: 12,126,145 - Navigating Among Activities In A Computing Device
- US Patent Search: 12,115,992 - Extended Touch-Sensitive Control Area For Electronic Device
- US Patent Search: 12,055,635 - Rapid Content Association Methods
- US Patent Search: 11,977,069 - Modeless Electronic Systems, Methods, And Devices
- US Patent Search: 11,975,838 - Integrated Messaging, Contacts, And Mail Interface, Systems And Methods
- US Patent Search: 11,903,766 - Multipurpose Data Input/Output And Display Configurations For A Data
- US Patent Search: 11,796,359 - Shared Symbol And Emoticon Key And Methods
- US Patent Search: 11,724,996 - System And Method For Navigating Displayed Content
- US Patent Search: 11,702,736 - Systems And Methods For A Graceful Push Handling User Interface
- US Patent Search: 11,520,335 - Softkey Access To Network Connections
- US Patent Search: 10,718,739 - User Input Configurations For A Data Processing Device
- US Patent Search: 10,718,743 - Multipurpose Data Input/Output And Display Configurations For A Data
- US Patent Search: 10,232,127 - Sliding Display Apparatus
References
- ↑ Hrepich, Bernardita. "Chileno en Google: "Me emociona saber que mi trabajo llega a mi país de origen"". El Mercurio Online (in Spanish).
- 1 2 Engadget Interview January 7,2011
- ↑ WSJ AllThingsD May 27, 2010
- ↑ "The Helio Ocean 3 that could have been", MobileCrunch
- ↑ "Matias Duarte bringing Sidekick, Helio UI expertise to Palm’s new PalmOS Nova", intomobile.com
- ↑ "...but lost to Matias Duarte, Joe Palmer, and Andy Johnston..."
- ↑ 2002 Wired Rave Award
- ↑ Matias Duarte blog: Mama tell me a story