Friday Likes 49

Today I am dedicating Friday Likes to a single project.Google Visual Assets Guidelines For such a long time Google had ignored its aesthetics in favor of its algorithms, functionality, and ad-selling superpowers that we just took it for granted that any Google product would look like shit, starting with its barebones home page and unadorned search results. There is nothing wrong with simplicity and straightforwardness but that didn’t mean stuff had to look like just one step above Netscape circa 1999. For a company infamous for battling (and testing) over 41 shades of blue their visual design was always disappointing. But things have been changing dramatically over the last couple of years with every product getting handsome and beneficial aesthetic improvements that enhance the expe