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There are a few important missings. Just to point one, the Googles's original UI was as revolutionary as many of the examples here.
by pdelgallego 14y ago
There are a few important missings. Just to point one, the Googles's original UI was as revolutionary as many of the examples here.
- Bjoern 14y agoGiven there are missing things, but what do you mean by google ui? A search box?
- pdelgallego 14y agoI mean the spartan user interface approach the followed in the early 2000s in their core product. We give for granted now that applications should be clean, focus, etc, but for many years that was not the trend. To put it into perspective, its major rivals at the time (Yahoo, and MSN) followed the opposite path. Google had a huge impact on how web interfaces are done today. They also popularize ajax when they launched gmail but that its another story.
- ryanbrunner 14y agoIroncially, I can remember Yahoo being lauded very early on for the same thing (spartan user interface, insanely fast load times, etc.) back when it started. If anything, Google was a return back to spartan interfaces after the initial batch of search engines got too caught up in portal mania.
- presty 14y agoActually that UI was first popularized by Altavista