One often overlooked element of Google's success is performance. Performance for cloud based systems is crucial. You can have the best design in the world and it will get trumped every time by performance. Latency is at this moment the most important issue in the experience of cloud based systems and google knows this.
Ixd as a pure pursuit does not live in a vacuum absent of the technologies that exist to support good experience. I say this not to let Google of the hook re the quality of experience they deliver but to appreciate that they treat performance seriously. I prefer yahoo mail to gmail from a design pov but I use gmail because it's way faster. My guess is that android based phones over time will be about performance first, not withstanding their first partner T-mobile's weak 3g network. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=33456 ________________________________________________________________ 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
