> > In the referenced article, you say: "Do you think Google's home page was > designed for a specific set of user types?" > > At *An Event Apart* today, Jeffrey Veen said, essentially, yes--he didn't > show personas, per se, but he did show pictures of and described target user > types that sure sounded a lot like them. And in fact he said, and I quote, > "weaving all that [Google apps] together took a tremendous amount of > user-centered design." [...] >
Google's homepage was started long before its UX design team. It was originally "designed", as the story goes, simply as a way to input tests for the search engine. As recently as 2 years ago, Google's UX team consisted of about 60 people, out of about 10,000 employees. It took them several years to even start a UX team, let alone work it into their process. It may (or may not) be going strong now, but Google was certainly not built on a foundation of quality interaction design. Interesting side note: Veen first gave that talk back in 2005. He's modified it over time (from what I've heard), but it's essentially the same talk he's been giving for 3 years (I think before he joined Google). I don't know if this affects the net sum of the talk, but it's interesting. (Any way you look at it, Veen is an awesome speaker.) -r- ________________________________________________________________ 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
