Doug Bowmen says Goodbye to Google
Doug Bowmen, a well known designer that Google recruited about three years ago, has finally decided to leave. His reasons are pretty interesting. I always thought it was odd Doug had decided to join Google since they didn't seem to value design as they did engineering. But I thought having Doug join them was a great boon for Google and perhaps a sign of good things to come. Yes, Google Calendar is designed far better than I would imagine Google would design it (Doug worked on this). But all in all, I still think Google isn't interested in building well designed software both inside and out — just building good software (whatever it takes).
