Google Pay is the fast, simple way to pay in stores, in apps, and on the web. Easily send and request money to friends and family
Gmail API integration
Material design v1
Material design v2
Component specs
Android Messages API integration
iOS Messages app
Overview
The payments user experience varied drastically it’s many applications, ultimately hurting product adoption, keeping growth stagnate, and causing user confusion. Over the span of 18 months, I worked to build a design system that unified all payments experiences across every touch point, driving innovation, and system level design thinking across mobile apps, mobile web, desktop and our API.
Competition in the P2P space had become fierce in the recent four years with the rise of competing apps such as: Venmo, Cash, and PayPal. Google Pay P2P was perceived as a “me too” product and adoption was on a slow trajectory.
Our strategy was to reposition Google Pay as a platform, and enable users to easily exchange money in any context the user is in. By building an API we could allow users to easily exchange money to friend and family in any app they are in.
The payments API is shipped with all Android devices and is embedded at the OS level. As the lead designer, my design patterns influenced Android UX and were integrated into top Google products such as: Gmail, Project Fi, Android Messenger, and iMessage on iOS.
Achievements
Launched API Gmail integration March 14, 2017
API pushed to 1.7 billion Android mobile devices globally
UX shipped to 106M monthly Android Gmail users in the U.S. increasing distribution by 30x compared to existing app footprint
The Verge “Google now lets you send money via Gmail on Android”