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Future headline? -- fires entire AI staff, changes global default language for all Google services to Chinese.

@lauren When I did UI in Google, I heavily advocated for default Chinese language. 😉

You know how hard it is to design a UI that works for both German and Chinese without completely blowing up the layout? And between the options, Chinese tends to be more horizontally compact thanks to the ideoglyphs.

@mark @lauren I think Japanese would have blown up the UI even more (and French uses ~30% more space than English). Also, Japanese can be written both vertically and horizontally (modern Chinese is mostly horizontal). And throw in Arabic (or another right to left language).

@PeterLudemann @mark Of course, little of this mattered with the G transition to "Material Design" and such low contrast fonts that if you were much older than about 25 you might as well have been using Braille.

@lauren @mark I regularly filed bug reports about pages that failed Google's automated readability tests. I don't recall any of the bug reports being answered.

@PeterLudemann @mark I did too. Either there was no response or ... you guessed it ... "WAI".