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The Googley Design Principles have gone up on the Official Google Blog.

Last month, I gave a talk about the principles at the WritersUA Conference in Portland. Luke Wroblewski, who also spoke at the conference, blogged the principles. That generated some discussion, but what I found really fascinating was that people then took the principles and translated them into half a dozen languages (we'll be doing that as well, soon).

The design principles were created by Susanne Brokaw, Sue Factor, Kevin Fox, Kerah Pelczarski, and myself. Initiative and guidance came from Irene Au, Director of User Experience. Susanne, Kevin, and Kerah had been working at Google for many years, designing the form of products that so many of us use each day and laying the foundation of the principles we had gathered to define. Sue, a fantastic writer, refined our collection of intents, anecdotes, and aspirations into clear and articulate prose.

I learned a lot from my colleagues while collaborating on this project and I'm proud of our work. While the principles are primarily intended to guide our design activities at Google, I hope they will inspire others to think about their own design philosophy and how they can create great products for their customers, too.