Are websites becoming more boring?

What follows is an edited version of the interesting points generated by my question on LinkedIn – www.linkedin.com/in/tomollerton

Google’s Visual Design Leader Douglas Bowman walked out declaring that Google “reduce each decision to a simple logic problem. Remove all subjectivity and just look at the data…And that data eventually becomes a crutch for every decision, paralyzing the company and preventing it from making any daring design decisions.”

Google’s stance is that their products are extremely functional, and easy to use. But they’re never really beautiful. And maybe they