{"id":230510,"date":"2023-12-12T16:05:46","date_gmt":"2023-12-12T08:05:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/magicalbits.net\/?p=230510"},"modified":"2023-12-12T16:05:46","modified_gmt":"2023-12-12T08:05:46","slug":"elizabeth-laraki-on-x-15-years-ago-i-helped-design-google-maps-i-still-use-it-everyday-last-week-the-team-dramatically-changed-the-maps-visual-design-i-dont-love-it-it-feels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/magicalbits.net\/?p=230510","title":{"rendered":"Elizabeth Laraki on X: &#8220;15 years ago, I helped design Google Maps. I still use it everyday. Last week, the team dramatically changed the map\u2019s visual design. I don\u2019t love it. It feels colder, less accurate and less human. But more importantly, they missed"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">15 years ago, I helped design Google Maps.<\/p>\n<p>I still use it everyday.<\/p>\n<p>Last week, the team dramatically changed the map\u2019s visual design.<\/p>\n<p>I don\u2019t love it.                       <\/p>\n<p>It feels colder, less accurate and less human.<\/p>\n<p>But more importantly, they missed a key opportunity to\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/HMcpKiOEdr\">pic.twitter.com\/HMcpKiOEdr<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Elizabeth Laraki (@elizlaraki) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elizlaraki\/status\/1727351922254852182?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 22, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>15 years ago, I helped design Google Maps. I still use it everyday. Last week, the team dramatically changed the map\u2019s visual design. I don\u2019t love it. It feels colder, less accurate and less human. But more importantly, they missed a key opportunity to simplify and scale.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>15 years ago, I helped design Google Maps. I still use it everyday. Last week, the team dramatically changed the map\u2019s visual design. I don\u2019t love it. It feels colder, less accurate and less human. But more importantly, they missed a key opportunity to simplify and scale.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-230510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/magicalbits.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230510","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/magicalbits.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/magicalbits.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magicalbits.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magicalbits.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=230510"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/magicalbits.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230510\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":230511,"href":"https:\/\/magicalbits.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230510\/revisions\/230511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/magicalbits.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=230510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magicalbits.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=230510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magicalbits.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=230510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}