On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 12:03 AM, Andrei Herasimchuk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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. Besides these, Picasa is quit good 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? > Picasa, GMail, Google Reader ... , all get high rank from their user.
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