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Matías Duarte
Born	Matías Gonzalo Duarte Sunkel (1973-01-30) 30 January 1973 (age 51) Talca, Chile[1]
Nationality	Chilean and American
Occupation	Vice President of Design at Google
Children	2

Matías Duarte is a Chilean-Americancomputer interface designer and Google's Vice President of Design.

Prior to his current role, he was the Director of AndroidUser Experience. Android 3.0 "Honeycomb" was the first release with major elements of his design influence.

Prior to moving to Google to work on Android, Duarte had similar roles in Palm, Inc.’s webOS,^[2] the Helio Ocean^[3] and the Danger Hiptop (T-Mobile Sidekick).^[4]

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 Phase Zero, an unreleased shooter game for the Atari Jaguar. In 1997 he le