With Android L, Google is introducing some aesthetic tweaks as part of its Material Design overhaul. Material Design is a sleek, neat, and colorful new interface that's meant to make the user ...

And Matias Duarte, Android's head of user experience, wants to take that role. Under Duarte, Android launched Ice Cream Sandwich -- aka Android 4.0 -- late last year.

The 6,000 developers who swarmed upon Google I/O last week were all expecting some kind of design refresh for Android. What they got instead, announced with shockingly little bluster, was a ...