Data, Not Design, Is King in the Age of Google
By MIGUEL HELFT
Published: May 9, 2009
(former top visual designer at Google deplores design changes because of user feedback)
"CAN a company blunt its innovation edge if it listens to its customers too closely? Can its products become dull if they are tailored to match exactly what users say they want? These questions surfaced recently when Douglas Bowman, a top visual designer, left Google."(New York Times)
Google Revs Up Some New Search Features By Miguel Helft
"Google unveiled a grab bag of enhancements to its Web search engine and new experimental features on Tuesday that aim to keep the company ahead of rivals. The new features include Google’s first significant effort not only to find information on the Web but also to understand some of that information and present it in new ways. Google’s engineers showcased an experimental feature called Google Squared that extracts information from the Web and displays it in a table..." more
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