Marvin Bernal

Marvin Bernal

Design Engineer in NYC

About

I design and prototype experiences for 3B users on Android. My work focuses on attention management and the relationship between you and your phone — in helping users prioritize what's important.

Contact

Threads
Ethereum

Work Experience

2017 — Now
Mountain View

Combining research, design and engineering to develop Android System UI for 3 billion users.

2016 — 2017
Toronto

Design advocate ensuring spec is communicated between our design and engineering teams.

2015 — 2016
Toronto

Technical lead for FreshBooks' Android. We migrated their front end to use Material Design components.

2014 — 2015
Toronto General Hospital

Working at a hospital alongside human factors was my first fascination into user experience.

Projects

2020
Android 11
2016
FreshBooks
2014
Aeroplane

I designed, built & published a Twitter app.

Features

2020

Dieter says this feature is "awesome".

2011

Zuck was notorious for not shipping an iPad app ... yet I discovered it in the iPhone code. Some publications called it hacking — was it? I'll let you decide.

Education

2008 — 2012
Bachelor of Computer Engineering at Ryerson University
Toronto
User Experience Design at Brainstation
Toronto

Speaking

2017

A talk on demystifying the differences between Up and Back navigation on Android

Volunteering

2017 — 2017

I hosted the first meet up at your local Tim Hortons. Now it has just over 700 Kotliners hosted by various tech companies in Toronto.

2016 — 2017

Co-founded the Toronto Android Developer meetup with Shopify, now known as GDG Toronto Android

Side Projects

Ongoing

A collection of sound experiments synthesized from emulated synths incl. Moog Model 15 in combination of both looped phrases and live playing.