Isabelle Maj Olsson (born August 20, 1983[1]) is a Swedish senior industrial designer for Google.[2][3] Olsson joined the X Lab at Google in 2011 and became the lead designer of the Google Glass product.[4][5]
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Olsson started working for Google in 2011.[6] Previously she worked for Fuse Project. She quickly became the designer of Google Glass. In 2013, Olsson custom-designed a tortoise-shell framed Google Glass.[7]
Olsson has been interviewed and profiled in a number of publications.[2][3][6][8]
Metropolis magazine invited Olsson to publish her account of her research into making a sustainable substitute for leather out of Pineapple leaves.[9] The magazine called Olsson one of "the textile industry's foremost experts."
References
edit- ^ "Isabelle Olsson's Instagram page". Instagram. Retrieved 16 July 2024.
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Rebecca Greenfield (2014-01-28). "The Google Glass Redesign, And How Isabelle Olsson Made The Face Computer Into A Thing Of Beauty". Fast Company. Archived from the original on 2015-01-20. Retrieved 2015-02-07.
Google Glass lead designer Isabelle Olsson talks with Fast Company about the inspirations behind Glass's fashion-forward redesign, with classic styles that let you blend in with the crowd.
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"Google Glass was designed by "sketching by hand" says lead designer". De Zeen magazine. 2014-01-31. Archived from the original on 2015-02-07. Retrieved 2015-02-07.
When designer Isabelle Olsson joined the secret Google X lab in 2011, Google Glass looked like a cross between a scuba mask and a cellphone. In this exclusive interview, Olsson tells Dezeen how she turned the clunky prototype into something "beautiful and comfortable".
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"Google Glass Original Prototype eyes-on with Isabelle Olsson". Slash Gear. 2013-05-20. Archived from the original on 2014-11-01. Retrieved 2015-02-10.
I will never forget the first day on the team and when I walked into a room wearing these CRAZY things on their heads.
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"Google's Glass designer talks less-is-more in wearables". Slash Gear. 2014-04-16. Archived from the original on 2014-11-11. Retrieved 2015-02-10.
Google designer Isabelle Olsson has a challenge on her hands: making Glass appealing enough to wear every day. Olsson is the subject of a new Google Design Minutes video, discussing her horror coming face to face with some of Glass' early prototypes - one less than ergonomic example of which you can see here - and how she's particularly proud of the way the frame and the Glass hardware itself look separate.
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Owen Thomas (2012-06-27). "REVEALED: The Designer Behind Google Glasses Explains The Top-Secret Project". Business Insider. Retrieved 2015-02-07.
We just ran into Isabelle Olsson, the senior industrial designer on Google Glasses, right after she demonstrated the awesome Internet-connected eyewear on stage at the tech company's big I/O 2012 conference in San Francisco.
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Rheanna Murray (2013-08-30). "Google Glass gets a fashionable update". New York Daily News. Retrieved 2015-02-07.
Designer Isabelle Olsson seemed to have the style-savvy hipster set in mind when she created a new version of the augmented reality specs.
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Claire Cain Miller (2013-08-23). "Women at Google Looking Past the Glass Ceiling". New York Times. Mountain View, California. Archived from the original on 2013-09-05. Retrieved 2015-02-07.
When Isabelle Olsson, the lead industrial designer for Google Glass, arrived at Diane von Furstenberg's New York studio to fit models for the new device, she wasn't concerned about how the models would look strutting along the runway wearing tiny screens and computers on their faces. Instead she was worried about the color.
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Isabelle Olson (2018-09-18). "Leather from Pineapple Leaves? New Sustainable Textiles Tap Unexpected Sources". Metropolis magazine. Retrieved 2019-08-01.
For this six-part series, Metropolis asked the textile industry's foremost experts what inspires them—here's what Google's head of industrial design, home, and wearables, Isabelle Olsson, told us.
- ^ "Google Glass was designed by "sketching by hand" says lead designer". Dezeen. 2014-01-31. Retrieved 2018-03-28.