Clever.
Last week I attended a day of the UX Week conference and was lucky enough to listen to a talk from Bernhard Seefeld and Elizabeth Windram from the Google Maps team. During their talk they mentioned something that perked my interest. It didn’t sound like the same old, same old when I hear people talk about user experience.
They design for the power user.
Make sure you know where you need to go on November 4th.
Looks pretty sweet. I’ll be installing it later today/tonight, but from the demo, I’m impressed. Every once in a while I step back and think about everything that my iPhone can do and I’m amazed. The little device is far and away the best gizmo I’ve ever owned. Period.
The future is here. Still no word on my jet pack order though. I’m blaming UPS.
The way they designed the unlock is fantastic and I like some of the stuff they did with the status bar at the top. None of the other features really wowed me, but it’s good stuff and I love seeing the innovation.
Hosted versions of jQuery, Prototype, Scriptaculous, MooTools, and Dojo javascript libraries. Let Google handle the caching and bandwidth issues for you.
Looks like a great way to start hosting something for free just to see where it goes.
Great tips on all aspects of UX design from the guys down the street at Google here in Seattle. I agree with a lot that’s said, but I lean towards removing all color instead of making things look unfinished to keep the focus on interactions.
Antitrust laws exist mainly to “prohibit agreements or practices that restrict free trade and competition between business entities.”
So, among other things, they protect you from Company X trying to force you to buy a second product after you’ve already bought a first one. This is the main crux of what got Microsoft in trouble with Internet Explorer.
These laws, specifically the Sherman Act, are likely what’s keeping you and me from having to buy our milk from Standard Oil, which is great, but with software it can be tricky. Microsoft stepped over the line a bit for sure, but it’s not always so blatant. What constitutes a “product”? Where does one piece of software end and the other begin? What should be part of the operating system and what shouldn’t? For the most part I think software companies are doing it right. Applications are focused around particular tasks: listening to music, getting your email, browsing the web, editing photos, etc., and the operating system or “the web” is there to facilitate that. It’s the links that make these individual applications really shine and that’s where this gets sticky.
Jacob Kaplan-Moss has created some awesome new template tags for Google Charts. Don’t miss the example page.
It’s no iPhone user interface but this new gallery set looks a lot better then almost all the the other mobile phone user interfaces out there. I’m glad to see the competition.
I’m not a big user of the google application suite, but I poked around with this implementation and it looks like a great implementation for those that do.
Google’s new tool to help websites improve goal completion rates by running A/B type tests.
MeasureMap gets bought by Google. Another one!
Just in Portland right now, but this is exactly what I wanted just last week for Seattle.
Use google talk from within your browser
Search engine optimization voodoo