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The NYTimes has an interesting article about Douglas Bowman, former Google designer who left to be a creative director at Twitter. Apparently Google is run solely on statistics and designers often feel stifled.

Can a company blunt its innovation edge if it listens to its customers too closely? Can its products become dull if they are tailored to match exactly what users say they want? These questions surfaced recently when Douglas Bowman, a top visual designer, left Google…

The article touches on the debate between research vs. design intuition, and is the customer the best person to decide what they want? Is it the ultimate design by committee? Read it at NYTimes.com.