I beg your differ here. Frankly speaking, most of the Google products is from outside except their search engine. Some bought product but be redesigned by google, Youtube ( redesigned, and it's not a bad redesign ), Picasa (redesigned, make it as a integrated part of Google services. It's really a smart design to connect it to Google's map service). Google Doc, yes, it's simple and stupid, but many people use it for everyday life ( especially for cross computer work ), etc. I'm not a Google Fans, but should say they do quite good work on SOME of products they bought ( or from their own).
If designer is not from Google, but the design will result on the Google products, it's Google's design or not ? Who can tells? but at least, they aware of the importance of design for product development, and make it works very well on some product lines. Cheers, -- Jarod On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 12:19 AM, Andrei Herasimchuk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sep 25, 2008, at 9:13 AM, Jarod Tang wrote: > >> Besides these, Picasa is quit good designed > > Picasa was designed by an ex-Metacreations team and then bought by Google. > >> Picasa, GMail, Google Reader ... , all get high rank from their user. > > Ok... three out of fifty. One of which was originally designed outside the > Google bubble. Not good metrics by any measure. > > -- > Andrei Herasimchuk > > Principal, Involution Studios > innovating the digital world > > e. [EMAIL PROTECTED] > c. +1 408 306 6422 > ________________________________________________________________ > Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! > To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe > List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines > List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help > -- http://designforuse.blogspot.com/ ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
