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If it's an internal tool that works great but doesn't look beautiful, then what incentive is there to fix it? All you would end up doing is changing the design
by shitlord 11y ago
If it's an internal tool that works great but doesn't look beautiful, then what incentive is there to fix it? All you would end up doing is changing the design without adding new features. Maybe some internal company tools are scraping the DOM of that site, so they might actually break existing tools by redesigning. In any case, I don't see much technical debt here, and there isn't much to gain by redesigning.
- tomlock 11y agoTotally agreed! I'm not criticizing, I was just a little surprised because of Google's reputation as an innovator. I also totally expect corporate tools to be static for long periods of time, so I'm also not surprised based on overall trends.
- brandon 11y agoYou might be surprised at the amount of innovation that has happened on that very page. As an example, I believe it was the first place that U2F was deployed: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_2nd_Factor http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_2nd_Factor
- karissa 11y agounfortunately, Google has lost that reputation.