July 24, 2006

Google Design Experiments Recap

Another design experiment for Google homepage includes a link to Google Video, and removes the links to Google Groups and Froogle. If you click on "more", a new layer shows links to Books, Froogle, Groups and Google Scholar. This is one of the the many UI experiments made by Google in the last year. You can see a selection of the most interesting designs that were visible for a very small part of the Google users (the small descriptions are mine).

Less is more


Let's copy Ask.com. Nobody will notice


Green bars


Octopus


Comprehensive clutter
google-serp-2

google-serp-1


Sitemap Search

Search box invasion
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5 comments:

  1. AnonymousJuly 24, 2006 at 1:12 PM

    I like your blog! Keep the good news coming.

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  2. Philipp LenssenJuly 25, 2006 at 6:14 AM

    We should give every new prototype a name, in the style of the Google updates a la "Google Florida" named by WebmasterWorld. :)

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  3. AnonymousJanuary 2, 2007 at 5:37 PM

    I remember seeing the "Green Bars" one a while ago and not liking it alot. It disappeared soon after that. How does Google decide which ones people like and which they don't?

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  4. RyanMarch 23, 2007 at 9:56 AM

    No matter what the redesign is, they should make it so you do not have to go into the "more" menu in order to do a groups search. I do that more than a normal google search!

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  5. AnonymousApril 24, 2007 at 9:24 AM

    I think the joke went over a lot of people's heads.

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