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."
- DownHill0
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
- uberdesigner0
I had no idea that google had designers.
- morilla0
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 IBMuberdesigner
- Corpse blue. It's the new black.Cptn_Uncanny
- BLUE IS GAYAmbushstudio
- formed0
nor did I
although they do make some funny logos changes once in a while
- 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 talenteduberdesigner
- 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
- uberdesigner0
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
- Hurley0
this would disagree.
- Pupsipu0
who uses Gmail in its own interface though?
- scarabin_net0
that was a bunch of self-important wankery
- 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.