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Google doesn't actually have many customer-facing product wins on the strength of their GUIs / UX to its credit, period.

Google search was minimalist. Android followed everyone else in the market, and hasn't iterated core UX much since. G Suite office apps were acquired, and mostly cloned Office online. Same with Gmail.

Maps is about the only heavily-used app, and I wouldn't call its design revolutionary (or even good).

Chrome is about the best example I can come up with, and it's mostly iterated and improved on the back end.

Maybe I'm missing something major? But it's not a market they compete in or are particularly good at.

(This isn't to say that the initial lift of desktop apps to the web wasn't a technical tour du force; just that blue sky GUIs have never been something they're known for)



> Google search was minimalist

That's a feature.

> Maybe I'm missing something major

Yes.


What product am I missing?




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