User Created Google Skin
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User Created Google Skin
User Created Google Skin
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I'm a little hesitant to publish this here for fear of someone from the borg legal department shutting it down, but seeing how it's been on the del.icio.us popular list for two days I figure it's just a matter of time. Someone named anildigital has reskinned google and tied all of the searches and google services into a UI thats pretty darn spiffy IMHO, check it out here at Total Google. Hey Google how 'bout instead of just crushing him under your superior legal power, you chuck him a few bucks and buy the design from him and actually use it somewhere.
I'm a little hesitant to publish this here for fear of someone from the borg legal department shutting it down, but seeing how it's been on the del.icio.us popular list for two days I figure it's just a matter of time. Someone named anildigital has reskinned google and tied all of the searches and google services into a UI thats pretty darn spiffy IMHO, check it out here at Total Google. Hey Google how 'bout instead of just crushing him under your superior legal power, you chuck him a few bucks and buy the design from him and actually use it somewhere.
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That's actually really,
That's actually really, really good!
Thanks gw
Tell me what I'm missing
Tell me what I'm missing because all I can see is a search box and a couple of drop downs ???
That's kind of the point.
That's kind of the point. He's managed to get a lot of functionality in there, and make it very useful without doing very much at all.
i'd put that under "good ui design"
Good design
A designer I knew was often found quoting that great design goes un-noticed, eg. milk bottle.
What is so inovative about a
What is so inovative about a drop down box?
Nothing. And again, that's
Nothing. And again, that's part of the point. It's simple.
A step backwards... Bad Design
It now requires 2 extra clicks to do a search for news, instead of 1.
And it looks cluttered.
$0.02.
Here's a different take on it
http://www.faganfinder.com/google2.html
And what about this from Google...
http://www.google.com/mozilla/google.xul
hmm
After seeing this title I was expecting some lovely usable frontend and was a bit disappointed really
"next"....