Metrics-Driven Design
A solid slide show showing in detail how over reliance on metrics causes paralysis. Scratch that, insanity.
“Yes, it’s true that a team at Google couldn’t decide between two blues, so they’re testing 41 shades between each blue to see which one performs better. I had a recent dbate over whether a border should be 3, 4 or 5 pixels wide, and was asked to prove my case. I can’t operate in an environment like that. I’ve grown tired of debating such minuscule design decisions. There are more exciting problems in this world to tackle.”
- Doug Bowman, formerly at Google
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