Face it, Google: Everyone hates the new Google Reader | The Reinvigorated Programmer
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Really, Google, really? It takes less than a month after Steve Jobs dies for you to forget everything you ever learned about design?
Apple’s frequent use of monochrome elements in designs does not mean BLACK AND WHITE IS ALWAYS GOOD. Monochrome simplifies a layout and de-emphasises scaffolding so that colour, when used, is more powerful. You’ve just thrown the colour out. It’s like using late-model Commodore PET.
Yes, designers sometimes like to add whitespace. Engineers sometimes like to remove whitespace to fit in more content. You have brilliantly decided to satisfy neither by (A) forcing content off-screen with acres of new whitespace, and (B) badgering up any chance of a clean look by infesting the layout with a hundred extraneous lines. What is this, 1995?
* Legibility! Light grey on slightly lighter light grey does not cut it!
And so on.