Anand Agarawala is the CEO and Cofounder of Spatial and Peter Ng is VP of Design. Spatial is a metaverse platform that allows you to host virtual galleries and events in beautiful artist-built spaces. In VR, mobile, and web.  This is Peter’s second time on the podcast, we had him on last year when Spatial pivoted into NFTs last year.

Anand and Peter first met and worked together on the Android Team at Google in 2011. When Google acquired Anand's first company, Bumptop, and incorporated Bumptop’s touch screen user experience into the Android phone. Peter led Google’s evolution into becoming a design-first company by creating Material Design, prototyping Google Hangouts, Google Now, and Google Keep.

In this episode, we discuss: 

• Anand's first company Bumptop and its acquisition to Google's Android team
• Peter's work redesigning  Google with Material Design
• Peter's prototyping process with Google Hangouts, Google Now, and Uber
• Spatial's story
• How Peter created Instaspatial

Links mentioned in Podcast:

• Anand's Bumptop TED Talk
• Peter's Material Design and Uber work: https://peter.ng/timeline

Tell us what you think by DM'ing @wiiichang. If you liked this episode, you can find more episodes at wld.show!