Google’s top 10 user experience principles
Posted on May 1, 2008 by Chris
Google recently published a list of 10 user experience principles that they aim to follow when designing their applications.
They are (don’t you just hear the Letterman drum roll in the background…):
- Focus on people – their lives, their work, their dreams
- Every millisecond counts
- Simplicity is powerful
- Engage beginners and attract experts
- Dare to innovate
- Design for the world
- Plan for today’s and tomorrow’s business
- Delight the eye without distracting the mind
- Be worthy of people’s trust
- Add a human touch
For the most part all of this makes sense to me. It is pretty hard to argue with “Be worthy of people’s trust” after all. They are also all rather high level so most things that Google does are going to fit pretty well within the principles.
The one I did think was a bit funny was “Delight the eye without distracting the mind”. I’m curious as to whether any graphic designers even work at Google since everything they produce looks like it was done by an engineer who had taught himself PhotoShop. I’m an engineer who has taught myself Photoshop so I should know.
They have some work do to on #8.
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