… How do people meet? Google has been asking this question since 2014, when it first paired physical design with trailblazing UX and UI to create Jamboard, a digital whiteboard that fosters real-time creative collaboration unencumbered by geographic proximity. To bring Google’s AI into the physical realm, product manager TJ Varghese teamed up with industrial designer Johan Liden, founder of Aruliden, an independent agency that cares deeply about how design impacts our everyday lives. According to Liden, “we entered into this collaboration looking through the lens of interaction by asking ourselves: How can the hardware we interface with when conferencing be more seamless, inviting, and more human?”