The Google that never was: how the search giant killed a 2007 redesign

It looks like the slides call it "Kennedy", not "Kanna", for whatever reason.<p>In any case, don't miss the last slide, where there's a chart suggesting a quantitative comparison of two shades of blue:<p><a href="http://www.theverge.com/2012/3/12/2863672/google-kanna-and-strawman-redesign#3116603" rel="nofollow">http://www.theverge.com/2012/3/12/2863672/google-kanna-and-s...</a><p>I presume this is a self-aware reference to the "testing shades of blue" story that designer Douglas Bowman brought to wide attention three years ago, in his Google farewell blog post:<p><a href="http://stopdesign.com/archive/2009/03/20/goodbye-google.html" rel="nofollow">http://stopdesign.com/archive/2009/03/20/goodbye-google.html</a>

Gmail looks a lot like yahoo mail does. Just personally, I like the white space heavy design better. Less visual clutter

Did anyone else look at the Design Porn slide [1] and think "Windows Metro!"?<p>[1] <a href="http://www.theverge.com/2012/3/12/2863672/google-kanna-and-strawman-redesign#3116577" rel="nofollow">http://www.theverge.com/2012/3/12/2863672/google-kanna-and-s...</a>

Gmail was better before. They are experiencing some problem with their lab and video chat plugin.