We just received a set of screengrabs from an anonymous source giving us a glimpse at what appears to be Google's (and thus, the world's) future interface to its web applications, Gmail in particular. While we were originally tempted to ignore them, communications with the tipster would indicate genuine insider knowledge. Regardless, we can not independently confirm the authenticity of these images. Having said that, the pics demonstrate a more unified apps interface based on
Google's Wave and accessible from any browser (as they are now). Specifically, we're told that "the goal is to provide a consistent experience throughout all Google Apps and blur the line between the browser and the website (e.g. drag and drop, right-click, etc.)." Something that certainly makes sense to us based on what we know about Google's tender approach to its
Chrome browser and its future "lightweight"
Chrome OS. If true then this "work in progress" also hints at the importance of Wave to the future of Google. Then again, it could be just one of many possible interface concepts from Google's burgeoning developer's sandbox.
posted Nov 9th 2009 3:34AM
Better title would be "Google Waves spread through Google Apps"
Google also recently updated their Orkut design on the lines of wave design...however the new Orkut design is invitation only for now.... also heard, Orkut has been completely rewritten from the scratch using Google web toolkit.
seems like Google is trying to integrate all their services on the web to play nicely with each other.... like preparing for something BIG...
Chrome OS anyone?
Or better yet, Google Waves make a splash in Google Apps
"Google Wave overturns small fishing vessel in South China sea" ... ?
I like it much more.
"Google waves splash across google apps"
The UI looks distorted and I can't see the damn thing. What's so great about Wave?
Another hype? :)
Are you on drugs?
How did you know! BTW, doesn't everyone just use the stylish add-on and customize their UI anyways. I made my gmail (and all google pages) black cuz it looks way cooler.
Let's hope they introduce the option for a non-threaded email layout.
That would be a great feature i hate them being threaded
No, you fυcking aѕѕholes. Let's see them make access to the Spam folder through pop3 so me and my Thunderbird can ignore their crappy web interface altogether.
@BeGone: Try IMAP or MAPI, POP3 is crap!
Why is this lowranked? I don't particularly like threaded messages either... He's just stating an opinion, it's not like he's trolling.
"Why is this lowranked?"
Because people are idiots.
If they like threaded, everyone must like threaded! No options for you!
That's one of the problems with society. The whole "there can be only one" attitude.
It's low-ranked because threaded conversation view is what makes Gmail Gmail and they are clearly never going to get rid of it (in fact, you can say with Wave that they're taking the idea a step further). If you don't like threaded conversations, Yahoo and Hotmail are there as good-enough alternatives for you to enjoy instead of QQ'ing about it in the Engadget comments..
I mean seriously!
"Uh-oh, an opinion! Break out the lowrank pistols!"
PEW PEW
not lowranked yet?
DOUBLE TAP!
This makes total sense... the next step is combining wave itself directly with gmail ;)
Down the road all the communication products will be through the same access point.
This is the date when I go looking for a new webmail. Gmail is the only Google Service I currently use, only for it's simplicity, clean layout & Labels. As soon as they put wave useless complexity I will switcht gmail for yahoo as junk mail account.
I mean change google for microsoft over this product then you can really see the crap it is. Microsoft Wave is like the new BOB this time by google.
@Carlos I think it's just a new look, not Wave inside all google apps, put a picture of regular gmail next to these ones and you'll see how much simple and clean these ones are.
Interestingly, the screen is traditional 4:3 TV shaped, NOT widescreen. If you try the layout in widescreen, you lose a lot of screen to the GMail or other Google logo. The developers really must consider the usability on the sadly now ubiquitous widescreen format.
That might require moving the mail list box slightly upwards.
Can Google engineers accomplish such a feat?
Is the world ready for such a drastic change?
Will it cause a black hole to open up and destroy the solar system?
The Large Google Collider.
So are they doing everything in java/GWT now?
Makes sense with the new google dashboard service.
One thing to consider: the supposed URL for all of these sites is simply http://www.google.com/
Seems a bit strange, no?
I picked that up as well - to me, that indicates that this is mockups at best instead of an actual implementation.
I noticed the URL as well and I'm guessing the same thing. But, it also could be the person doing the screen shots wanted to block the URL as it could have been internal and did not want to give that out (then again, why not just blur it like the rest of the content!).
with the http:// being a lot lighter than the www.google.com, it does look like the address was altered for security (and keeping the author of the supposed tip off the radar) purposes...and makes perfect sense.
i really like the look, very smooth and clean...and if this is indeed accurate then i welcome the seamless application design
@doug
he's viewing the page in chrome, that's the way it displays a URL...the http:// is lightened and the actual domain you're visiting is bolded
I was going to mention this too. Even if everything was accessed through Google.com like that, there would still be a location hash for each action you're completing for browser history/direct linking purposes (such as #inbox on the current gmail).
Clearly someone pulling everyone's legs.
This is clearly someone pulling your leg! Slow news day.
here comes the end of the world.
"accessible from any browser" as in "still ignoring Opera"??
F* opera.
From the screenshot, it looks like the interface won't use the terrible scrolling system that Wave currently uses for the inbox section. yay.
But man, that wave interface needs a lot more work before I'd make it my gmail default.
Still as ugly as ever. Why can't Google hire some good designers?
Plus the wastefulness of taking a whole line of space so that a logo can be fitted to the top of the page. Chrome introduced its vertical space-saving design, yet Google's apps continue to waste it.
Space to the Google's logo right is used as a taskbar with minimized windows (such as an inbox window on one of the screenshots). I can imagine that in daily use of, say, gmail and wave you'll wish there was even more space for that!
Now, ChromeOS sure needs taskbar, doesn't it?
One of the best things about Wave is the design.
I am shitting myself in anticipation for this.
dont like it.
Here is how blogger willl look soon!
http://img195.imageshack.us/img195/7545/preview6g.jpg
shopped, time, pixels, etc
I reckon this will be exactly what the OS will look like, the Title bars, buttons and scroll bars will be exactly that.
hope they make waves with their crappy contacts manager considering how it's now tied to my phone.
May i kindly request a google wave invite?
No. Even I can't get a damn invite.
I have thirty invites to spare-- respond with emails and I will further the idea of an engadget wave.
Ladyguenwywar:
a949619@uggsrock.com
Thanks
@Ladyguenwywar: Could you kindly invite me as well? Much obliged.
ThereIsNoBall(~at~)gmail.com
Thanks!
Sorry, new address: superhobo@trash2009.com
@Ladyguenwywar : Could you send me an invite at : sid(dot)marawar(at)gmail(dot)com .Thanks in advance.
I'd love to have an invite!
randallnoriega(at)gmail.com
Everyone in this row-- your invites are on the way.
I'd really appreciate an invite also tbm1748l(~at~)gmail.com
Ladyguenwywar:
Could you send me an invite please? Would be much appreciated!
chidranveshi@gmail(dot)com
-Chidra
I request engadget editors to create a post for google wave invitations which would serve as a platform/forum to bring together readers with extra invites and the ones who don't have any invites as yet..
http://lifehacker.com/5393589/the-wave-invitation-donation-thread
http://lifehacker.com/5397211/the-wave-invitation-donation-thread-part-two
That's where I got my invite :)
Hello all, Siddlharth
I was noticing your post and I have invites left, as a matter of fact, I have all my invites left...
And for the nice folks here on the Engadget pages, I think I can invite some of you... Just need to know where Im sending them to...
@JCTorpey : Thanks. My email address is : sid(dot)marawar(at)gmail(dot)com
Hey, JC. Thanks! :)
a949619@uggsrock.com
I'd like Google Wave Invite love too! drewgam@gmail.com
Sorry, new address: superhobo@trash2009.com
Send me an invite please.
vbgupta@gmail.com
@jctorpey
andrewgv@ymail.com
I would love one, thx!
A Wave invite would be much appreciated:
wave(at)juravlea(dot)ro
Lol really?
So much hate towards gmail, what's the deal?
I don't know how you guys can actually live without threaded emails! Everything else is so damn messy and keeping tracking of the conversation is totally a time waste. The design is simple yes, but it's very effective and easy to use. What webmail layout you guys prefer, MSN's?
I think they are actually referring to the threaded reply system on Google Wave. I think that sucks too..
And also, I am so used to using the tab button to press submit. That is not possible with Wave. The only option to submit with the keyboard is ctrl+enter which gets it to go threaded..
Yeah, no kidding. I honestly can't be bothered to read email without a threaded conversation view anymore.
Google is constantly evolving and may soon see its wonders.
Just looks like a constant look that's. i.e new themes for all the existing apps. I guess they would do that for some consistency anyway, I don't really see any new features from the screens.
Changing the UI on your flagship product puts you at risk of major backlash. See 2007, Office.
All those blue rounded rects. Reminds me of XP. Not a good association.
And I agree with Matthew: I like my gmail the way it is thank you. So there's a problem with cloud computing: no way to keep developers from forcing their 'improvements' on you.
So all the apps will be painfully slow, peg the cpu, won't allow me to add in any contacts, won't give me any invites so I can't use it with my friends & family (going on weeks now) and be generally annoying. Awesome...
it's a fake - these web layouts would be easy to mash together & fake
Well, I've been rocking Wave for a while, and will happily take the new interface over the GMail, so long as they do something about those strange unresponsive scroll bars ...
"Just received" two months ago? The gallery is dated 9/11/09. Also notice the URL is "www.google.com" for all of the pages. It looks to me like a fanboy's pretty user CSS. I'm not saying it looks bad, only that I'm skeptical.
I think the date it's in European format or something, it's 09 the day/ 11 the month/09 year. As some ppl said the url maybe cause of security issues or cause this is a mock up, not a fully developed website, yet.
I really dislike the look and feel of the Wave interface
Looks like fake. Gmail was modified all the time, it cannot be stripped to this.
Most likely fake. See the http://www.google.com url for gmail, the few pixels in search options to the right that seem totally misplaced and the search result "Google Books' Latest Foe" which was posted an hour ago in the screenshot, but is actually dating back from september 20th 09...
I just wish Google would not screw up GMail the same way it does constantly with Google Reader.
I use GMail as my main e-mail UI and frankly all their recent "innovations" required quite a time and tinkering to figure out how to disable. It is much worse with Google Reader where they dumbly disregard all user requests posted in Google Groups (== official support forums) but instead screw up UI about every 3 months.
Probably somebody can introduce Google to Version Control and Release Management?? So that they will not break older, properly functioning versions of their apps with new "innovations" but instead create new versions, allowing the users to migrate gracefully over the time.
I never used gmail because of the threaded style... this might change my mind. But what I dont like is this new fad that email has to be tied into social networking. I dont want my email recipients seeing what I'm doing online!!! Has the world gone mad?? Dont you people value privacy?
This is well overdue!
Ten to 1 it will make the interface worse. For me each new invention makes it worse, because they kid designing it has perfect vision and a 30" screen (and probably a 8 core machine running at 10mhz on each core), the original good groups was great, then the ruined it, by adding a ton of frames. New "app" after new app requires a ton of bloatware javascript, and stylesheets hardcoded to micro fonts because the kid previously referred to has perfect vision.
As far as i am concerned google are doing evil, because they don't give a shit about readable interfaces.
Instead of focusing on Google's readable interface...how about posting something that is just readable?
http://www.tolearnenglish.com/
I just wish Google would let you customize the damn link bar on www.google.com I don't use video. I don't use shopping. I rarely use maps. News I use. But if I had the option of the top 7 it would be
Web, Gmail, Calendar, Voice, Docs, Groups, Wave, MORE
As it stands the list is annoying because its what Google wants not what I want and please not iGoogle. Blasted thing is too busy.
Amen!
These are obviously fake. Look at the URL in the browser URL bar. It is http://google.com/ in all of the pictures. Does gmail have the same url as the google home page? How about the search results page? No. Someone just had a little fun in Photoshop!
I call B.S. The mock is inconsistent in several ways already pointed out (url + wave scrollbars on gadgets but browser scrollbars on window). And even further, the scrollbar is a Windows 7 scrollbar... no one has upgraded their primary machine to run Windows 7 and the vast majority of Google designers use Macs.
The scrollbars are two different things one moves the whole page and the other the "wave" windows, they can coexist together. I believe the scrollbar from vista and 7 are the same but correct me if I'm wrong.
Ladyguenwyvar,
Please send me a invitation of wave.
I will really appreciate it.
Ladyguenwyvar,
Please send me a invitation of wave.
I will really appreciate it.
loverbyte@gmail.com
Could someone send me an invite too please .
gautamagarwal13@gmail.com
new orkut is cool...
i have few invitations left
if anybodys is left for orkut invitation can contact me at
http://www.orkut.com/Profile?uid=8452420692202133361