Reading the book "On interaction" by Bill Moodridge it's quite obvious that Google didn't have utilize UCD.
They saw a problem with how search-engines at that time was approached and found a different way to approach it. The page was just done quickly to get something up and running and lo and behold it worked people used it. The greatest successes of google are based around people. Google Maps (Two danes who got acquired by google) Google Wave (the same two danes) Google News (some guy at google just did it for fun) Gmail (the basic principles again where done by some guy not involving users to create the fundamental idea) Google is data centric. To them data is everything. Do they use UCD sure they do, but they didn't need to. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=45486 ________________________________________________________________ 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
