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(Anecdote time: I'm at Google in a team full of engineers. We spend meetings arguing about the UI. We defer to people who actually get paid to think about UI wh
by litewulf 17y ago
(Anecdote time: I'm at Google in a team full of engineers. We spend meetings arguing about the UI. We defer to people who actually get paid to think about UI when it comes to these situations. I'm sure it varies from team to team.)
- SwellJoe 17y agoI think it's incredibly clear to anyone with half an ounce of design sense that Google has fantastic design. It isn't pretty design...but it is design that functions better than almost anything it competes with. GMail is a dramatically better mail client than anything else out there. Search, obviously, is the perfect example of stay out of the way design. iGoogle maybe isn't perfect, but it works as well as anything else I've tried. Google Reader is a solid effort. This article is talking about design as art, lone visionaries with exciting new ideas. Google is design as function and usability and using proven design principles to deliver products that work in obvious ways, that also happen to look good. I strongly prefer the latter, and I think the market strongly prefers the latter. There are many beautiful failures on the web (and amusingly, many of them have been celebrated on design sites). Google is a good looking (though not often beautiful) success.