Well it started as a better UI than Google's (I said too much here), so I started designing the UI with search as a focus. Than later it evolved. As for the us

Well it started as a better UI than Google's (I said too much here), so I started designing the UI with search as a focus. Than later it evolved. As for the usable thing, most of UIs I design are usable from the start, in the sense that they don't suffer the designer syndrome. If you want to see a scifi that suffers usability Mozilla's Aurora Concept http://www.adaptivepath.com/aurora/ http://www.adaptivepath.com/aurora/