How the Captivating Venn Diagram Google Doodle Came to Be

Mike sat down with two Doodle engineers, Corrie Scalisi and Mark Ivey, to figure out exactly how this commemorative illustration would work. Since Venn diagrams were something most had learned of in elementary school, they wanted it to have the feel of a children's game, something that both adults and kids who navigated to Google.com would enjoy, hence the vibrant animations.

Of course, the key to this doodle was the inclusion of circles in the illustration and the dozens of animated Venn diagram combinations the team created.

The hardest combination for the team? Vegetation/mythical. Not everyone passed up to N.E.W.T. levels of Herbology, it seems.