The original design was done with function first and form received almost no attention which was typical for Google for a long time.
As design overall started to become more relevant in products Google started to push out their redesigns but it was done with form instead of function as the focus. They've never really re-designed anything to be better - their updates have usually made the product worse.
But without a strong design leader it's death by a thousand cuts because there are so many layers of management to getting anything done.
As design overall started to become more relevant in products Google started to push out their redesigns but it was done with form instead of function as the focus. They've never really re-designed anything to be better - their updates have usually made the product worse.
But without a strong design leader it's death by a thousand cuts because there are so many layers of management to getting anything done.