On Sep 24, 2008, at 5:36 PM, David Malouf wrote:
I have been saying that Google is an "non-design" organization for
years. Thanx Andrei!!! 8-)
G-d Damn It!!!! we agree again! Is this becoming a habit?
We won't truly agree on much of the larger picture until you change
your stance that "interaction" designers need not understand fully the
fundamentals of graphic design as part of the job description. That
means the fundamentals of good typography, color theory and
application, composition, the grid, layout, etc. I'll let you off the
hook in bringing up basic markup and scripting skills for now.
As much I think Google's products are functionally useful but still
pretty poorly designed overall using my definition of what constitutes
interface design (which I've said for many years now, so that
shouldn't be a surprise), it's hard to argue that the engineers at
many technology and software companies like Google should hand over
the accountability of the design of their products if those around
them that call themselves designers use Visio as their primary drawing
tool and can't build decent prototypes that involve more than
scissors, glue and a lot of hand waving.
I am, if anything, an equal opportunity curmudgeon.
--
Andrei Herasimchuk
Principal, Involution Studios
innovating the digital world
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