Ian J. Wessman's

Five ¢ents

  • November 21st
    Is Google a technical achievement? Absolutely. Does that mean it isn’t a design achievement? No. It’s an astounding design achievement to make Google work the way it does. To enter a query and get a relevant response in under a second while searching the *entire* web is a design achievement that has few equals. Some may say this is simply “engineering” and dismiss it. But engineering takes planning, and that planning is design.
    –Joshua Porter, probing the supposed boundaries between engineering and design [via Daring Fireball]
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