Categories: Google

VIDEO: Google on the search results page redesign

Posted by: Helen Walters on May 05

For nearly a year, Google designers and engineers have been working on a new look for the search engine's search results page. I haven't been working on the accompanying story...

Google's fluid, iterative innovation process

Posted by: Helen Walters on January 26

Yesterday, Google announced a new "stable" release of its open source browser for Windows, adding some 1,500 "Extensions" (which add functions to the browser toolbar) and "Bookmark Sync", which synchronizes...

Google graduates 'Tasks' from Gmail Labs, launches Calendar Labs, opens innovation pipeline

Posted by: Helen Walters on July 14

Google's way of doing business been under real scrutiny of late. The Journal recently ran a piece on the company's organizational revamp, intended to try to stop losing good people...

Google: How does your innovation garden grow?

Posted by: Helen Walters on April 23

“Innovation is alive and well at Google,” said R.J. Pittman, director of product management in search properties at Google at a press conference held earlier in San Francisco earlier this...

Andy Hertzfeld on Google's News Timeline

Posted by: Helen Walters on April 22

Earlier this week, Google announced its News Timeline, a way to organize information by date. Users put in their search parameters (sources of information such as Time Magazine and Popular...

Google design? What Google design?

Posted by: Helen Walters on March 20

Earlier this week, we published a Q&A with Google's user experience director, Irene Au, who discussed the challenges of trying to create design consistency within an engineering-driven culture. "To some...

Google Measures The Readability--Yikes!--of What You Write

Posted by: Reena Jana on December 08

Last night I was typing using Google Docs at home, and when I used the Word Count tool, I discovered some metrics that I didn't know about: scores to show...

Inside Google's Design Process

Posted by: Helen Walters on September 23

While many eyes are trained on Mountain View for the official release of the new G1/Android phone from Google and T-Mobile, I got an insight into Google's design process from...