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Heaven forfend one should use an attractive font on a Google product. Seeing the incredible engineering innovations going on at Google, and the incredible UI i
by jlees 17y ago
Heaven forfend one should use an attractive font on a Google product.
Seeing the incredible engineering innovations going on at Google, and the incredible UI innovations going on elsewhere, makes me a little sad - never the twain shall meet, and instead they're redeemed to making shallow copies of each other and never quite hitting the spot. Over-designed and under-engineered, or vice versa.
Adding design-led products or hiring more designers, however, would kind of change what Google is about IMO. Can engineers be taught design? ;)
- krakensden 17y agoHave you ever considered that maybe designers have created a culture that is not quite congruent with reality, and that their perception of a good interface is not, in fact, always a good interface? Engineers like the Google style, but so do lots of my acquaintances who are non-engineers, from scientists to writers to school teachers. Designers seem to be the only demographic with a problem.
- elblanco 17y agoDesigner driven applications and websites seem to too often fall into the "pretty but unusable" bucket, I agree.