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Google Redux: A Greasemonkey facelift for Google (Download Squad)

Mar 18th 2006 12:36PM
Went to Rutledge's site to get a better look at his rendition and get the insights behind. To my mind, all off the mark. I've always had the greatest admiration for Google's layout, their minimalist aesthetics. Perfect. What's more, if you read over Rutledge's critique, he's somewhat condescending over Google's design, pretty convinced of his own view on the matter, and the reasons he presents are all pretty much off-target, showing nothing more than his opinions rather than a better approach to the ergonomics of the layout, or even the aesthetic element. And his design did nothing for me whatsoever--in fact I found it pretty ugly. His placement of functions didn't make any improvements. He'd better rethink this one. The score thus far: Google--1, Rutledge--0.