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Apple's designs aren't all that impressive to me. They aren't the epitome of design. Google Profiles (https://profiles.google.com/ https://profiles.google.com/

Apple's designs aren't all that impressive to me. They aren't the epitome of design. Google Profiles (https://profiles.google.com/ https://profiles.google.com/) has better usability and a cleaner design than Apple's homepage (http://www.apple.com/ http://www.apple.com/).

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reneherse 15y ago
well, there's no accounting for taste...
- danssig 15y ago
  Or lack thereof.
ed209 15y ago
I think you'll find that Apple has done more than anyone else with regard to raising the importance of design in product. In the last 6 months there has been a real shift towards the importance of design. I'd say thanks to iPhone mostly for spreading the message. I doubt Google has inspired many designers although they are starting to change... and no, profiles is not one of those.
paganel 15y ago
> Google Profiles (https://profiles.google.com/ https://profiles.google.com/) has better usability and a cleaner design than Apple's homepage (http://www.apple.com/ http://www.apple.com/). It's only a matter of taste. For me that page is ugly as hell. I haven't activated my profile yet, and maybe because of this that page looks empty, no content on it, no reasons given to me for why I should ever activate my profile. On top of that, I also managed to break their JS on the first couple of minutes of browsing it. I clicked on the "PicassaWeb" tab link and strange layover window reluctantly showed up (after 2 or 3 seconds on the first try). When I try to close that by clicking the "No thanks" link nothing happens, apart from FF reporting a JavaScript error: > Error: h is undefined Source File: https://profiles.google.com/c/ui/js/122008102-PwaLinkMain.js https://profiles.google.com/c/ui/js/122008102-PwaLinkMain.js Line: 39 I'm on FF 3.6.13, Windows 7. Here's a quick screenshot: http://i.imgur.com/f67Nj.png http://i.imgur.com/f67Nj.png I don't think they're going to catch Facebook with that ugly page design and beginners' mistakes.

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reneherse 15y ago

well, there's no accounting for taste...

danssig 15y ago
Or lack thereof.

ed209 15y ago

I think you'll find that Apple has done more than anyone else with regard to raising the importance of design in product. In the last 6 months there has been a real shift towards the importance of design. I'd say thanks to iPhone mostly for spreading the message. I doubt Google has inspired many designers although they are starting to change... and no, profiles is not one of those.

paganel 15y ago

> Google Profiles (https://profiles.google.com/ https://profiles.google.com/) has better usability and a cleaner design than Apple's homepage (http://www.apple.com/ http://www.apple.com/). It's only a matter of taste. For me that page is ugly as hell. I haven't activated my profile yet, and maybe because of this that page looks empty, no content on it, no reasons given to me for why I should ever activate my profile. On top of that, I also managed to break their JS on the first couple of minutes of browsing it. I clicked on the "PicassaWeb" tab link and strange layover window reluctantly showed up (after 2 or 3 seconds on the first try). When I try to close that by clicking the "No thanks" link nothing happens, apart from FF reporting a JavaScript error: > Error: h is undefined Source File: https://profiles.google.com/c/ui/js/122008102-PwaLinkMain.js https://profiles.google.com/c/ui/js/122008102-PwaLinkMain.js Line: 39 I'm on FF 3.6.13, Windows 7. Here's a quick screenshot: http://i.imgur.com/f67Nj.png http://i.imgur.com/f67Nj.png I don't think they're going to catch Facebook with that ugly page design and beginners' mistakes.