Products like the one Google just announced are hatched at off-sites at resorts near Monterey or in the Sierra, and were designed to meet the needs of the corporation that created it. A huge scared angry corporation. What little is left of the spark that created it in the first place is now used to being Number One, and wants to feel that again. It’s being created to make that person feel better.
Google(+). Yawn.

Source: scripting.com

Eight lessons from Gawker's redesign atrocity

A pretty brilliant analysis of the design horrors that Gawker Media unleashed on the unsuspecting populous. Really great sites like io9 were utterly destroyed by the horrible redesign.

“Gawker’s recent launch of a new design may prove to be one of the worst redesign launches in the history of the internet. It not only sparked an outcry from users, but let to a massive drop in traffic for one of the internet’s most popular publishers.”

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