Larry, I agree with the dangers of hill-climbing to the exclusion of finding new hills, but I don't believe this is the case at Google.
Data-driven design is used when performing incremental design changes, and is more like QA or Usability testing. Neither preclude the utilization of blue-sky or revolutionary design, but all are important in optimizing design. Even Doug's examples of 41 blues and 3, 4, or 5 pixel borders aren't cases where data is inhibiting the crossing of a design valley, unless you consider a hue or a pixel width to be revolutionary. For another former Google designer's take on Doug's departure, and Google UX in general, I submit the post I wrote this morning: http://fury.com/2009/03/google-design-the-kids-are-alright/ Thanks, Kevin Fox ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... disc...@ixda.org Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
