Google Flight Search flexes its design muse with Panoramio pics and best fares
Skift Take
Google is finally putting some additional resources into the UI of Google Flight Search. The damn thing works fast, but if it is ugly, it isn't going to get the traction that Google wants.
Google doesn't have the best track record when it comes to attractive user interfaces, and now it is taking a cue from the visual and inspirational Web, and flexing its creative impulses with a flight search UI called Flight Explorer.
Until now, if you were set in advance on your hoped-for origin and destination cities, you had two fairly ugly ways to get your Google flight searches going.
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