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"I feel that the intensity of the childlike design grates against the realities of Google as a company — which generally I am a big fan of but — that involve so
by TheBiv 11y ago
"I feel that the intensity of the childlike design grates against the realities of Google as a company — which generally I am a big fan of but — that involve some pretty weighty and adult issues involving privacy and user rights. I don’t want Google to be childlike. Fun, yes. Childlike, no. So, the design feels optimistically naive or pessimistically deceptive."
I have no idea how we went from a discussion about kerning to a discussion regarding the nature of Google's corporate structure and values.
- Maken 11y agoBecause design is not about making things pretty, but about making things attractive. Google is not changing their design just because. Behind the childish fonts, colorful interfaces and simple icons there is a careful thought about what Google believes it's the best way to present itself to its costumers. How Google is, or more specifically, how Google wants people to think it is, it's implicitly present in every single design choice, even in a seemingly irrelevant one as the relative distribution of the logo's letters.
- jrochkind1 11y agoAnd for a company of Google's size, it's safe to say Google was considering the same issues OP was too, and what their branding conveyed regarding them. Yep, even down to the pixel.