on Art, Interaction Design, and Programming
"It looks like a human was involved in choosing what went where,” Marissa told them. “It looks too editorialized. Google products are machine-driven. They’re created by machines. And that is what makes us powerful. That’s what makes our products great."
― Marissa Mayer addressing Google designers, as quoted in “In The Plex” by Steven Levy (via buzz)
Levy’s In The Plex (according to Buzz) Whatever you do, don’t read too much into this quote from a Google executive.
Levy. Call us crazy, but we believe humans are way better at designing than machines. And this explains a looooot about...