Seven questions for Pokémon Go designer Dennis Hwang

Back when he was called "the most famous unknown artist in the world," Dennis Hwang was primarily in charge of designing Google Doodles, the fun, often-informative bits of multimedia content that live within the Google logo on the company’s search page. Since then, his design canvas has gotten much bigger: Hwang is director of visual design at Niantic Labs, the company that was spun off from Google a year ago and then went on to launch a little mobile game called Pokemon Go this past July. Now Hwang doesn’t just design stuff for an "admittedly well-trafficked" Google home page; he says that with Pokemon Go he considers the entire world to be his game board.

The Verge sat down with Hwang at Google’s SPAN design conference in Los Angeles...

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