Goodbye Google

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    ^....

    You have to separate usability from visual design. Google builds some of the best web apps in terms of a) technology b) ease of use. Compare Gmail to Yahoo Mail or Hotmail in terms of UI. It is far more streamlined and easy to use and there are some new ideas in there that were adopted by competitors. Google Maps - another example of something that was completely new and pretty much made Mapquest irrelevant within a day.

    Is their visual design ugly and clunky? Sure. But that's more because of their hideous logo than anything else.

    By the way, this article about how designers would redesign Google from 2003 is kinda funny. Here's Shephard Fairey's entry:


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