MetaFilter posts tagged with webdesign and google

Bowman quits Google

dw — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 10:35:45 -0800

I’m thankful for the opportunity I had to work at Google. I learned more than I thought I would.... But I won’t miss a design philosophy that lives or dies strictly by the sword of data.

And with that Douglas Bowman, the great web designer and CSS guru whose hiring was considered a big coup three years ago, quits Google for Twitter. (MeFi's own) Joe Clark approves. Bowman also confirms the "41 shades of blue" story is true -- Google can't decide on one shade of blue to use on the site, so they're experimenting with 41. (via Zeldman)

Google for Google's Sake

armoured-ant — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 15:55:14 -0800

If Google was designed for Google.

Google Pages launched

mathowie — Thu, 23 Feb 2006 00:31:40 -0800

Google Pages is basically Geocities 2.0. You get a wysiwyg editing interface, a bunch of templates to pick from, and the ability to make as many pages as you need. Time will tell if this revolutionizes the web the way Geocities did (aside from all the obvious crappy pages from Geocities, it did give thousands of new writers and designers a place to start), but it's certainly a cool set of tools to do something mundane like start a website. [via waxy]

johnb — Mon, 11 Dec 2000 13:06:35 -0800

Google Toolbar -- anyone try this yet?