Why Do Google Maps’s City Labels Seem So Readable?
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Why Do Google Maps’s City Labels Seem So Readable?
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Re: Why Do Google Maps’s City Labels Seem So Readable?
#2A common complaint is that Google is engineer-driven rather than design driven. Some very impressive counter-evidence in the article -- lots of nice design hacks.
Re: Why Do Google Maps’s City Labels Seem So Readable?
#3A common complaint is that Google is engineer-driven rather than design driven. Some very impressive counter-evidence in the article -- lots of nice design hacks.
I was thinking more along the lines of exception to the rule. I honestly have some trouble finding another product by Google which has this attention to detail (design-wise), maybe Chrome...
Re: Why Do Google Maps’s City Labels Seem So Readable?
#4A common complaint is that Google is engineer-driven rather than design driven. Some very impressive counter-evidence in the article -- lots of nice design hacks.
I'd say that this design is quite engineer-driven. It seems, their design is 'just' applied knowledge about perception.
Re: Why Do Google Maps’s City Labels Seem So Readable?
#5A common complaint is that Google is engineer-driven rather than design driven. Some very impressive counter-evidence in the article -- lots of nice design hacks.
I'd say that this design is quite engineer-driven. It seems, their design is 'just' applied knowledge about perception.
I'd argue that all design is "applied knowledge about perception"
Re: Why Do Google Maps’s City Labels Seem So Readable?
#6The blank space around major cities is the most surprising idea to me.
Re: Why Do Google Maps’s City Labels Seem So Readable?
#7A common complaint is that Google is engineer-driven rather than design driven. Some very impressive counter-evidence in the article -- lots of nice design hacks.
I'd say that this design is quite engineer-driven. It seems, their design is 'just' applied knowledge about perception.
"Applied knowledge about perception"
This is so general that it practically means nothing
Re: Why Do Google Maps’s City Labels Seem So Readable?
#8The blank space around major cities is the most surprising idea to me.
This might be implemented with the same feature as the lack of clusters: a label suppresses other labels around it, with bigger cities suppressing more. Would be easy to do with a greedy algorithm.
Re: Why Do Google Maps’s City Labels Seem So Readable?
#9A common complaint is that Google is engineer-driven rather than design driven. Some very impressive counter-evidence in the article -- lots of nice design hacks.
I was thinking more along the lines of exception to the rule. I honestly have some trouble finding another product by Google which has this attention to detail (design-wise), maybe Chrome...
http://www.google.com/hotpot is getting very positive ux /design reviews
Re: Why Do Google Maps’s City Labels Seem So Readable?
#10A common complaint is that Google is engineer-driven rather than design driven. Some very impressive counter-evidence in the article -- lots of nice design hacks.
I was thinking more along the lines of exception to the rule. I honestly have some trouble finding another product by Google which has this attention to detail (design-wise), maybe Chrome...
Try Boutiques.com. It's a pretty slick Google property. Feedburner's interface is also really nice, but it was there when Goog bought them.