Do people actually use the Chromebook Pixel Mark 1 in the Googleplex and is 3D performance on maps a problem for them?
A while ago I took off the 'designer' font choices from a website (spider grey text on grey background, kerning mangled) with some local CSS. Everyone prefered the simple legibility to what was on my screen so we set the website to be like mine, legible.
I wonder if some people on the Google Maps team had a similar internal hack to optimise their workflow - turning off graphics cruft - get back to legibility - and if someone got this fed back into the actual design, 'as proven by the team'. I prefer this evolution of design, from people who have to get the data right in the first case and how they 'optimise' the presentation of that information for themselves.
A while ago I took off the 'designer' font choices from a website (spider grey text on grey background, kerning mangled) with some local CSS. Everyone prefered the simple legibility to what was on my screen so we set the website to be like mine, legible.
I wonder if some people on the Google Maps team had a similar internal hack to optimise their workflow - turning off graphics cruft - get back to legibility - and if someone got this fed back into the actual design, 'as proven by the team'. I prefer this evolution of design, from people who have to get the data right in the first case and how they 'optimise' the presentation of that information for themselves.