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Re:Google Introducing New Visual Design Across All Products by statictype on Tuesday June 28, 2011 @09:40PM (#2708087)
Finally, it just looks unfriendly and robotic. Blue is a more humanistic color

You nailed it with this one. This is how Google rolls. They prefer generic screens to ones that are designed by humans, because they want to convey the idea that Google is not a curated source of information, but a machine generated unbiased view of the world.

I'm generalizing a bit, but this is almost verbatim what was written in In the Plex.

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Re:Google Introducing New Visual Design Across All Products by magicalist on Wednesday June 29, 2011 @01:35AM (#2708524)
I too divined this from their choice of black instead of blue.

So are we doing astrology next or going straight to phrenology?

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Re:Google Introducing New Visual Design Across All Products by statictype on Wednesday June 29, 2011 @01:37AM (#2708529)
How about reading comprehension?

I was replying to the idea that they chose a more 'robotic' design than a 'humanistic' one. And used a piece from a book in which a Googler pretty much said the same thing.

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