The Google that never was: how the search giant killed a 2007 redesign (theverge.com)

Gmail looks a lot like yahoo mail does. Just personally, I like the white space heavy design better. Less visual clutter

It looks like the slides call it "Kennedy", not "Kanna", for whatever reason.

In any case, don't miss the last slide, where there's a chart suggesting a quantitative comparison of two shades of blue:

http://www.theverge.com/2012/3/12/2863672/google-kanna-and-s...

I presume this is a self-aware reference to the "testing shades of blue" story that designer Douglas Bowman brought to wide attention three years ago, in his Google farewell blog post:

http://stopdesign.com/archive/2009/03/20/goodbye-google.html

Gmail was better before. They are experiencing some problem with their lab and video chat plugin.

I like the fact that they have gone for minimalism....That is how a search engine is supposed to be

Did anyone else look at the Design Porn slide [1] and think "Windows Metro!"?

[1] http://www.theverge.com/2012/3/12/2863672/google-kanna-and-s...