The design of the app isn't bad, but the implementation is worthless. I don't know if he's responsible, but the slide away panel has inspired a lot of imitation as a design pattern.
Ah, yes now that slide away panel is neat! That's decent and better implemented than the Android browser I first saw it on (racking my brains to remember which) but still it's just one innovation. Like putting the coolest new cupholding system in the execrable Dodge Neon. Call me curmudgeonly (I've just had a tooth implant so I have an excuse) but if you're actually in charge of interface and still you can't get overall UX even to be adequate in a major product, then you're not managing and communicating upwards well enough. Yes, I don't know the ins and outs of who owned the whole experience, but understanding the shoddiness of the roll out of their Android product in the past three years is very important!
