Plumrocket Inc. is starting a series of posts about famous web designers. Design itself is an art form. And design in the Web is a powerful tool which needs a skillful master to start working. Today we want to tell you about Doug Bowman who used to be Google\u2019s Visual Design Lead. More than two years ago he left the company to join Twitter..<\/p>\n
Why? Let\u2019s find out\u2026<\/p>\n
Douglas Bowman emerged in web design in late 1990s. In 1998 he founded Stopdesign \u2013 a small graphic design consultancy where he conducted a freelance business still working for Wired. In 2002 he left Wired and totally dedicated his attention to Stopdesign. His successful projects were not left unnoticed and in 2006 he joined Google. Mr.Bowman was the first \u201cclassically trained\u201d designer who had been invited to work for Google. Perhaps, this was the reason why he decided to quit the corporation three years later.<\/p>\n
In his blog<\/a>, he explained his decision saying that \u201cwithout a person at the helm who thoroughly understands the principles and elements of Design, a company eventually runs out of reasons for design decisions. \u2026 <\/em>A company filled with engineers is bound to reduce each decision to a simple logic problem\u201d <\/em><\/p>\n He mentioned that there was a time when a team at Google had been testing 41 shades of blue to see which one performed better.<\/p>\n The web designer went on telling that \u2018he could not operate in an environment like that\u2019 and wanted to meet new challenges and opportunities in solving even more exciting design problems in this world.<\/p>\n Now this passionate web designer is the Creative Director at Twitter. He could not stand over-reliance on testing which flourished in the team of Google\u2019s search products & user experience analysts. What is more important for the almighty Web \u2013 pure design or high traffic \u2013 that is a question of philosophy.<\/p>\n Doug Bowman, the philosopher of design, has made his choice\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Plumrocket Inc. is starting a series of posts about famous web designers. Design itself is an art form. And design in the Web is a powerful tool which needs a skillful master to start working. Today we want to tell you about Doug Bowman who used to be Google\u2019s Visual Design Lead. More than two… Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3047,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[16],"tags":[52,50,48,51],"table_tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/plumrocket.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/plumrocket.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/plumrocket.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plumrocket.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plumrocket.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=567"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"https:\/\/plumrocket.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7248,"href":"https:\/\/plumrocket.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567\/revisions\/7248"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plumrocket.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/plumrocket.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plumrocket.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plumrocket.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=567"},{"taxonomy":"table_tags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plumrocket.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/table_tags?post=567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}