Kevin,
Your post is both balanced and wise.
I, on the other hand, am having trouble communicating my position on
this issue.
Shades of blue and widths of borders could well be inhibiting the
crossing of a valley if undue time and resources are devoted to such
0.1% improvements to the exclusion of 10% leaps.
Larry
On Mar 23, 2009, at 2:35 PM, Kevin Fox wrote:
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
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