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This is lovely - I used to use YouTube recordings of Yamanote line trips as a way to fall asleep. As a small bit of feedback - from the sleep perspective, the melodies and door chi…

At 2000s-era Google, I was fortunate to work with some famous 70s-80s era software engineers whose contributions to computing are on a similar scale to what is shown in HCF. Some o…

We did a lot of experimentation with keyboards in Android - finding better ways to type and click is pure HCI dream work The key challenge is: - At first, people don't care about s…

cloudpebble was the best part about Pebble - it made development so easy I did so much more of it The developer experience for modern devices is so awful - the teams driving it are…

When we started work on Chrome my favourite browser was a now-forgotten IE shell called iRider, which implemented tree-ish style tabs in a better way than anyone, and we did take m…

Replacing the Android home buttons with the swipe up gesture. It was demonstrably a very clear usability and efficiency loss, but most people strongly preferred it. Before we had t…

I agree with your criticism of design dogma - it drives me nuts too - people saying something bad is good because it follows the rules . But since I'm also responsible for the Andr…

When we designed Chrome, since minimalism was our thing and screens used to be small, A LOT of time was spent on the total vertical space - thin titlebar, slightly bigger tabstrip,…

My wife and I have both used gmail for twenty years - she's been sending me email from her account for years, with my personal domain forwarding to my gmail. But since the Google D…

Since our own accents generally sound neutral to ourselves, I would love someone to make an accent-doubler - take the differences between two accents and expand them, so an Austral…

I brought the print-and-play GALAXY PDF for my son - he loved it and spent the next ten hours playing it, barely stopping to eat. Seemed like a good mix of mechanics and modern vid…

The water flow analogies always messed me up because young literal me couldn’t handle reconciling the abstraction with “actually current flows negative to positive”

Pretty sure this is https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=jkarneges - would love to hear their reflections, 25 years later

This is sweet! When we made Chrome some of us (OK only me) were enamoured with an IE shell browser named iRider - it had tree style tabs and pinning, so was useful in very similar …

I used to get this a lot - I'd be dozing peacefully, then would hear a loud bang with a hypnic jerk and auditory startle response (a white flash). I just put the whole thing down t…

The original text was longer, but it was very clear that "incognito doesn't affect the behavior of other people, servers, or software" and included examples. You can see it in the …

To be fair, while it is lenticular, it's a huge upgrade over the 3DS, which only rendered two views (one for each eye) so it only worked from straight on; the Looking Glass display…

I loved this game as a kid - it gave you a rare sense of freedom - movement within an expansive space, and that joy of throwing things in gravity-defined arcs, rather than locking …

Unfortunately I don't remember the exact reason, but with some squinting at the past I believe it would've come down to two things - resources and how we thought about the role of …

I don't think you are alone here - there's a reason Chrome invested so heavily in dev tools and made them (and things like view-source) accessible in the core distribution even tho…

Thank you for taking me down memory lane with this great question. It's been almost twenty years, so I may misremember the internal popularity of many things, but one that stands o…

I designed Chrome, and was responsible for decisions around its UI, including the addition and removal of the RSS button. Our design philosophy at the time, which was in reaction t…

The search engine choice screen in Android did have a bid model (and complicated EU regulation around it), but the search engine choice screen in the early versions of Chrome were …

FWIW, the initial versions of Chrome did not have Google as the default search provider - the first run experience had a dialog that made you choose between the top three search en…