Google’s top designer gets fed up with data
Google’s design leader, Douglas Bowman, has decided that his artistic efforts are too cramped by Google’s emphasis on data and performance so he is going to Twitter. He blogs:
When a company is filled with engineers, it turns to engineering to solve problems. Reduce each decision to a simple logic problem. Remove all subjectivity and just look at the data. Data in your favor? Ok, launch it. Data shows negative effects? Back to the drawing board. And that data eventually becomes a crutch for every decision, paralyzing the company and preventing it from making any daring design decisions.
Personally, I am more interested in the performance of Web pages than in how artistic the page looks.
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