Goodbye Google
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- TheBlueOne
"...it’s true that a team at Google couldn’t decide between two blues, so they’re testing 41 shades between each blue to see which one performs better. I had a recent debate over whether a border should be 3, 4 or 5 pixels wide, and was asked to prove my case. I can’t operate in an environment like that. I’ve grown tired of debating such minuscule design decisions. There are more exciting design problems in this world to tackle."
- ********0
what colour are sour grapes?
- one of 41 shades of purple perhaps?TheBlueOne
- It's not sour grapes if he's the one that left, right?mtgentry
- ********0
I had no idea that google had designers.
- and mail********
- weird. i totally thought the same thing...era4O4
- and mail
- ********0
they asked me what application I liked best, I said "uhhhhh Google". That was the end of that.
- Nairn0
and then some.
rowr.
- sublocked0
WHY DOES EVERYONE HAVE TO USE BLUE..........IM SO SICK OF CORPORATE BLUE.
- blame IBM********
- Corpse blue. It's the new black.Cptn_Uncanny
- BLUE IS GAYAmbushstudio
- blame IBM
- formed0
nor did I
although they do make some funny logos changes once in a while
- ********0
Leave Google for Twitter? Uhhhhhhhhh, ok.......
- maybe the fail whale needs some sprucing up?TheBlueOne
- no kidding, sounds like he was the head cheese over there.********
- you never leave that slot at that place.********
- hahahha Joke's on him, Google's buying twitter!zarkonite
- lolz @ ZBattleAxe
- janne760
"And none of them were in high-up, respected leadership positions. Without a person at (or near) the helm who thoroughly understands the principles and elements of Design, a company eventually runs out of reasons for design decisions. "
i believe i am going to vomit now...
brb..
- jfletcher0
Any interview I've read with a designer at Google seems like an engineer, not a designer. Testing shades of blue is a huge waste of money amoung other things.
- monNom0
the new google:
- GH0
Is this for real? He was lead designer at Google and now Twitter?
Shaken, no border.
- he's super talented********
- i like that a lot!janne76
- Hell, did I bang my head and wake up in 1996? Everyday, I get just a little more confused.frediscrazy
- he's super talented
- ********0
google is so out of touch that they not only hire this clown, but make him head designer
- ukit0
In the future there will be no designers, just a giant machine that tests different shades of blue.
- yeah and generators that make glyphs and picks best one based on word defenitionsmaxcohen
- that sounds great - do you know of any of these generators in existence now?frediscrazy
- ********0
this would disagree.
- Pupsipu0
who uses Gmail in its own interface though?
- scarabin_net0
that was a bunch of self-important wankery
- BattleAxe0
- 4:20 length , light upBattleAxe
- One Of The Best Songs Ever********
- I've had it on repeat for 4 days sBattleAxe
- 8 times in a rowAmbushstudio
- great song, Associated for life to "silence of the lambs" personaly.dyspl
- jevad0
Having worked somewhere very similar in environment I totally understand Doug's frustrations. He's a fantastic visual designer, and his talents were totally wasted somewhere like that. Can't see twitter being a fantastic move forward but I wish him the best.
- calcium0
They seem to just have money to burn, and since everything is internal it's all just work to look busy. Testing 41 different shades of blue is a little silly in my opinion, and I'm pretty detail oriented.
- Jnr_Madison0
When a company depends on clicks, like google do, I'm not really surprised they spend time working on 41 shades of blue, even if it does sound batshit crazy.