How Google Got Design

Re:How Google Got Design by jevgeni on Wednesday June 10, 2015 @08:31AM (#9691565)

Saying that Google gets design is a bit of a stretch. The new Inbox product is a case in point: it just looks so busy and "over-designed" for what essentially should be a list of messages and a few controls to manage them.

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Re:How Google Got Design by russ5russ on Wednesday June 10, 2015 @08:37AM (#9691607)

Agreed, but some of their other products are very well designed IMO. It usually takes a while for them to get to that point though, so Inbox may be headed there soon.

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Re:How Google Got Design by jfoster on Wednesday June 10, 2015 @09:45AM (#9692096)

Did it really take a while for their other products to get to that point?

I recall Gmail being something so immediately appealing and better than the status quo that people ditched their existing email services and applications overnight to start using it.

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Re:How Google Got Design by jevgeni on Wednesday June 10, 2015 @10:06AM (#9692240)

Could be. The Google Cloud admin page is way nicer than Rackspace's or both of the Microsoft Azure pages. Maybe Material is just going through their internal hype cycle until it matures.

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