Well, the waiting is finally over - we can talk about what we’ve been working on all this time. Today, a completely redesigned version of Google Analytics is launching, bringing a lot of the simplicity and data visualization techniques we learned building Measure Map to a whole new scale.

Jeffrey Veen

Kottke breaks the story. I just started utilizing google analytics for WA to get more familiar with things and don’t have the redesigned viz stuff yet but am interested to see the results. There’s a comprehensive (read: very thorough) overview on Kaushik’s site as well. More interesting to me though is what Veen had to say about what he’s doing now:

On a personal note, I’ve got a much different job now that the design work on Analytics has wrapped up. I now lead a team of over 30 designers and researchers responsible for the user experience of Google’s web applications. We’re working on Gmail, Calendar, the Office-like tools, Blogger, Orkut, Picasa, Talk and a bunch more. And that means I get to dig into some of what I consider the Web’s most interesting challenges and work with some of the smartest people in the industry.

Given how good the overview looks for the new analytics I can’t wait to see what they do with the other stuff.

If you were a font then which font would you be? I twittered this tonight and thought I should at least answer my own question.

A lot of the times I think I’m Apple LiGothic…

Then there are some times where I’m just totally Zapfino…

Yeah, that’s about right…