Google I/O 2025: Google's AI Redefines Web and UX/UI

Okay. Here we are. Google I/O 2025, has just ended… and it's simple: the internet will never be the same again. Between Gemini 2.5, Veo 3, Flow, their AI that codes all by itself and live voice translation in Meet… Honestly, Google I/O 2025 is a game changer. Not just a nice update or a few well-oiled demos, but a real technological slap in the face. Google has literally redesigned the web with its new artificial intelligence tools. And when you work in UX/UI, you immediately feel how much this will revolutionize the way we think about user experience.

Gemini 2.5: The New Brain of the Internet

It's THE engine behind everything Google has just released. Gemini 2.5 is an AI that thinks, reasons, summarizes, reformulates, speaks, codes… and now, it does it faster with the Flash version and more in-depth with the Pro version. The “Deep Think” mode? It’s literally an AI that takes the time to doubt, to weigh the pros and cons, before responding.

And the crazy thing is, they've already integrated all of this into their search engine with the famous "AI Mode." A search becomes a discussion. A click becomes a conversation. And from you to me... it's incredible!

Veo 3 + Flow = Creating a video has never been easier (and scarier)

You type a prompt. I see 3 creates a 2-minute video with sound, movement, lip-syncing, and everything. And with Flow, you actually have an AI-driven real-time editing tool that lets you make your mini short film as if you were at Pixar, but jogging in front of your laptop.

It's fluid, it's clean, it's stunning. And clearly, as a visual designer, you're starting to realize that the lines between UI, motion design, and storytelling are disappearing. The tool is becoming native storytelling.

Google Meet that translates your voice live… with your tone of voice!

Yes, you read that right. True real-time voice translation, without robotic voices. You speak in French, the person hears in English, with your voice and tone. If that's not augmented conversational experience design, I don't know what is.

AlphaEvolve: The AI that codes better than you (and me)

Google also dropped out AlphaEvolve, their AI that generates code, optimizes it, tests it, recodes it... in short, it works while you're still hesitating over your variable name. It's already saved their data centers millions in performance. Tomorrow? It will do the work of front- and back-end development on the fly. It's our turn, the new roles of experience orchestrators.

Why in UX/UI we REALLY need to open our eyes

All these announcements aren't just technical or marketing. They're changing our profession. They're redefining what it means to design an experience. AI is no longer a prototyping tool. It's a living material we compose with. It personalizes, anticipates, responds, creates, illustrates, speaks, and codes.

The challenge is no longer just to think about interfaces, but to design intelligences.

In short? Google just crashed the map.

They've dropped a bomb on our old ways of researching, creating, translating, and coding. The impact on design will be immense. And honestly? It's incredibly exciting. Now it's up to us to play by these new rules of the game.

Philippe Elovenko, UX/UI designer / Design System Master at UX-Republic