15 years ago, I helped design Google Maps. I still use it everyday. Last week, the team dramatically changed the map's visual design. I don't love it.

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Triboro design firm’s subversive take on the New York City subway map is jarringly beautiful. ... The CMY edition of Triboro’s Wrong Color Subway Map Photo: Donna Dotan.

On Feb. 11, in a Transit Museum presentation titled "Coloring the Subway Map," he’ll discuss the genesis of the color-coding system, and how and why it shifted over the years. The first colored ...

She last worked on the earliest version of Google Maps 15 years ago. According to her current work profile, she has led design teams and shaped multiple core products at Facebook, Google, and YouTube.

It has not been easy to make maps look cool. Enter Stamen Design, ... and satellite imagery, and straightforward controls for manipulating things like color, opacity, ...

Triboro Design is run by husband-and-wife team David Heasty and Stefanie Weigler, graphic designers who moved to New York in the early 2000s. They came up with two designs for their Wrong Color ...

This shorter pin design is slightly less prominent, but might allow Google to show more per map view. It follows Google last year rolling out new colors for the main map.. We’re seeing this ...

Update 12/12: This teal accent color is now appearing on iOS (version 24.49.3), with the “Google Maps has a new look” prompt explaining how it’s the “Same great app, now with fresher ...

The redesigned map of the New York City system, the first to be introduced in nearly half a century, is reminiscent of a version from the 1970s that was reviled by many traditionalists.