skyklapper:

There’s a couple of really good points in this article about Google’s deep fascination with data-supported design decisions—the 41 shades of blue being the prime example.

A second might matter tremendously to an engineer — and indeed, Google is happy to point out that those seconds, over a year, add up to hours of time saved. But that’s kind of a silly way of thinking about it. After all, it’s not like you get all those hours at the end of the year as a dividend. If you saved a second while googling, what are you going to actually do with that second? Take another sip of coffee?