5 posts tagged “google”
The Google User Experience team aims to create designs that are useful, fast, simple, engaging, innovative, universal, profitable, beautiful, trustworthy, and personable. Achieving a harmonious balance of these ten principles is a constant challenge. A product that gets the balance right is "Googley" – and will satisfy and delight people all over the world.
Ten principles that contribute to a Googley user experience:
- Focus on people – their lives, their work, their dreams
- Every millisecond counts
- Simplicity is powerful
- Engage beginners and attract experts
- Dare to innovate
- Design for the world
- Plan for today’s and tomorrow’s business
- Delight the eye without distracting the mind
- Be worthy of people’s trust
- Add a human touch
Our view at Google is that's a transitory phase in the development of the whole social web, and that those friend relationships that you create on these sites should be usable and portable and allow you to get benefit no matter where you go on the web. - Joe Kraus
Can the Internet be made more social? This is a question with which Joe Kraus, director of product management at Google, constantly has to grapple. He believes every killer app on the web -- instant messaging, e-mail, blogging, photo-sharing -- has succeeded because it helps people connect with one another. For Kraus, this means the Internet has an inherently social character, but it can be enhanced further -- an area he continues to explore through Google initiatives such as Open Social and Friend Connect. Wharton legal studies professor Kevin Werbach spoke with Kraus recently about the increasing socialization of the Internet.
What an evening I must say! I am pretty satisfied with the turnout as well as how the event was managed from A to Z. Of course, we did a couple of mistakes which we should have known better, but well, we learnt, and we move on. I also managed to give an introduction to The Digital Movement (TDM) for the folks, which I am most grateful for. It was a crucial moment for us, that people anticipate and understand that we are more than just mere events. And I can't emphasis enough that TDM is seriously going through a very interesting transition. We have lots of ideas and plans in store but I am most passionate on building a good foundation. Build to last. A movement, not a monument.
The evening ended with much excitement in the air. Some say, it's a day they will never forget. The day they met one of the Father of the Internet. Well, the same goes for me. Not everyone would have a chance to have a photo with him. I did! :-)
Here are some blog posts/streamed media of the event itself:
- http://qik.com/video/84697 | streamed live during the event
- http://alvinology.wordpress.com/2008/05/27/an-evening-with-vinton-cerf/
- http://blog.simplyjean.com/2008/05/23/live-blogging-at-tracking-the-internet-into-the-21st-century/
- http://ian.onthereddot.com/2008/05/24/a-very-special-evening-with-vinton-cerf-from-google/
- http://twitter.com/twistedian
- http://yuhuibc.blogspot.com/2008/05/recap-of-vinton-cerfs-presentation-at.html
- http://rainelai.wordpress.com/2008/05/23/meeting-vinton-g-cerf/
Okay, I know I am little late on this but I decided to give it a shout out anyway. Google has recently updated a new version of Google Docs & Spreadsheets. While the update really only truly affects to the document browsing page it adds a substantial amount of usability to the entire application. The visual overhaul is good and shows that, once again, Google isn’t afraid to roll out disruptive changes in an effort to enhance user experience (as it did with Analytics).
Here's a comparison of the new and old Google docs:
