I was going to post about her and "edict" is exactly one of the words I had in mind. I had to deal with one of those while at Google a decade ago. The PM made i

I was going to post about her and "edict" is exactly one of the words I had in mind. I had to deal with one of those while at Google a decade ago. The PM made it clear that this particular UX decision came from up above and there couldn't be more experiments or workarounds, one of which had been prototyped by an engineer. While she's famous for the 41 shades of blue experiment, I saw the occasional arbitrary cherry-picking, too. The semi-randomness made it much more perplexing. On the other hand, Instant Search was another edict of hers, which required months of massive planning and engineering, until it became usable and wouldn't bankrupt the company, but I'm glad she came up with it.