On Sep 25, 2008, at 1:58 AM, Tamlyn Rhodes wrote:
In my experience it is only graphic designers who think that Google products are poorly designed. Everyone else just marvels at how easy they are to use and gets on with it. I'd argue that Google products are, in the main, exceptionally well designed from an interaction point of view.
If you mean Maps and Search, I'd agree everything. Everything else? People will tolerate a LOT when its cheap or free. Pure and simple. Don't confuse what people put up with as a measure of what constitutes something that is well designed.
Google has excellent attention to detail but only the details that matter to most of their userbase. In the end, does it really matter if the buttons in Google Docs are a different shade to those in Gmail?
You missed the larger point. It's not just about aesthetics, but that's the most obvious problem point Google has.
I encourage you to take a look at the entire breadth of the Google product offering and show me exactly where they are all well designed. They have over 50 products available now.. In fact... can you even find them?
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