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The Google that never was: how the search giant killed a 2007 redesign
- nchuhoai 15y agoGmail looks a lot like yahoo mail does. Just personally, I like the white space heavy design better. Less visual clutter
- zach 15y agoIt looks like the slides call it "Kennedy", not "Kanna", for whatever reason. In any case, don't miss the last slide, where there's a chart suggesting a quantitative comparison of two shades of blue: http://www.theverge.com/2012/3/12/2863672/google-kanna-and-strawman-redesign#3116603 http://www.theverge.com/2012/3/12/2863672/google-kanna-and-s... I presume this is a self-aware reference to the "testing shades of blue" story that designer Douglas Bowman brought to wide attention three years ago, in his Google farewell blog post: http://stopdesign.com/archive/2009/03/20/goodbye-google.html http://stopdesign.com/archive/2009/03/20/goodbye-google.html
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- tadasha 15y agoGmail was better before. They are experiencing some problem with their lab and video chat plugin.
- msrpotus 15y agoAlso just being generally slow lately.
- mayank_kh 15y agoI like the fact that they have gone for minimalism....That is how a search engine is supposed to be
- nhebb 15y agoDid anyone else look at the Design Porn slide [1] and think "Windows Metro!"? [1] http://www.theverge.com/2012/3/12/2863672/google-kanna-and-strawman-redesign#3116577 http://www.theverge.com/2012/3/12/2863672/google-kanna-and-s...