http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/27/palms-matias-duarte-has-joined-google-as-user-experience-direct/ Engadget Comments for http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/27/palms-matias-duarte-has-joined-google-as-user-experience-direct/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/27/palms-matias-duarte-has-joined-google-as-user-experience-direct/May 27th 2010 11:22AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/27/palms-matias-duarte-has-joined-google-as-user-experience-direct/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/27/palms-matias-duarte-has-joined-google-as-user-experience-direct/May 27th 2010 11:24AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/27/palms-matias-duarte-has-joined-google-as-user-experience-direct/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/27/palms-matias-duarte-has-joined-google-as-user-experience-direct/May 27th 2010 11:24AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/27/palms-matias-duarte-has-joined-google-as-user-experience-direct/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/27/palms-matias-duarte-has-joined-google-as-user-experience-direct/May 27th 2010 11:40AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/27/palms-matias-duarte-has-joined-google-as-user-experience-direct/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/27/palms-matias-duarte-has-joined-google-as-user-experience-direct/
more like, World-Dominating...]]>May 27th 2010 11:46AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/27/palms-matias-duarte-has-joined-google-as-user-experience-direct/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/27/palms-matias-duarte-has-joined-google-as-user-experience-direct/Job title "User Experience Director" eh?
Let see if he has any self respect and stands up to the idiots that think Flash is satisfactory on 2.2 at the moment, or will he cave being the new boy???]]>May 27th 2010 11:46AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/27/palms-matias-duarte-has-joined-google-as-user-experience-direct/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/27/palms-matias-duarte-has-joined-google-as-user-experience-direct/May 27th 2010 11:47AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/27/palms-matias-duarte-has-joined-google-as-user-experience-direct/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/27/palms-matias-duarte-has-joined-google-as-user-experience-direct/Yeah, I'm sure they only hired him to take on a co-op students seat.
Obviously if he's Director, he has input AND control.]]>May 27th 2010 11:56AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/27/palms-matias-duarte-has-joined-google-as-user-experience-direct/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/27/palms-matias-duarte-has-joined-google-as-user-experience-direct/May 27th 2010 11:59AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/27/palms-matias-duarte-has-joined-google-as-user-experience-direct/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/27/palms-matias-duarte-has-joined-google-as-user-experience-direct/May 27th 2010 12:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/27/palms-matias-duarte-has-joined-google-as-user-experience-direct/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/27/palms-matias-duarte-has-joined-google-as-user-experience-direct/Take another Jab Mr. Jobs.]]>May 27th 2010 12:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/27/palms-matias-duarte-has-joined-google-as-user-experience-direct/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/27/palms-matias-duarte-has-joined-google-as-user-experience-direct/You're right. He's sort of like a movie director, who obviously doesn't have much input into a movie.]]>May 27th 2010 12:06PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/27/palms-matias-duarte-has-joined-google-as-user-experience-direct/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/27/palms-matias-duarte-has-joined-google-as-user-experience-direct/May 27th 2010 12:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/27/palms-matias-duarte-has-joined-google-as-user-experience-direct/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/27/palms-matias-duarte-has-joined-google-as-user-experience-direct/
In fact Palm was full of ex Apple guys who thought they could re create their success at Apple. These were supposed to be hardware AND software guys.]]>May 27th 2010 1:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/27/palms-matias-duarte-has-joined-google-as-user-experience-direct/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/27/palms-matias-duarte-has-joined-google-as-user-experience-direct/actually, he pretty much made palm as beautiful as it is, being the main driving force of the project, so id say hes going to have a big impact, but time will tell :)]]>May 27th 2010 2:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/27/palms-matias-duarte-has-joined-google-as-user-experience-direct/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/27/palms-matias-duarte-has-joined-google-as-user-experience-direct/hmm, i dont know, flash seems to be doing amazing enough as it is, what other alternative can do as good as it, let alone better than it?


Either way, now we'll have the best working phone OS AND the best looking/best working phone OS with android, this is a good day :D]]>May 27th 2010 2:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/27/palms-matias-duarte-has-joined-google-as-user-experience-direct/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/27/palms-matias-duarte-has-joined-google-as-user-experience-direct/
Interestingly, this is the first post I've seen where commenters are actually willing to admin the Android UI is crusty. Hmm...]]>May 27th 2010 2:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/27/palms-matias-duarte-has-joined-google-as-user-experience-direct/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/27/palms-matias-duarte-has-joined-google-as-user-experience-direct/
well if he brings too much of the webOS over to Android, say HELLO lawsuit.. Palm VS. Android.. Just because he may have been a lead designer and had final say so doesn't mean he can bring all of that over to Android.. But I'm sure he can help make some needed improvements and keep them seperate from Palm's patents.. ]]>May 27th 2010 2:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/27/palms-matias-duarte-has-joined-google-as-user-experience-direct/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/27/palms-matias-duarte-has-joined-google-as-user-experience-direct/
BEST.NEWS. EVAR.

I can't wait to see his print on Android 3.0...... he'll have a lot of fun abusing that Tegra 2 chip coming in Q4.]]>May 27th 2010 3:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/27/palms-matias-duarte-has-joined-google-as-user-experience-direct/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/27/palms-matias-duarte-has-joined-google-as-user-experience-direct/May 28th 2010 2:29AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/27/palms-matias-duarte-has-joined-google-as-user-experience-direct/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/27/palms-matias-duarte-has-joined-google-as-user-experience-direct/May 27th 2010 11:23AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/27/palms-matias-duarte-has-joined-google-as-user-experience-direct/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/27/palms-matias-duarte-has-joined-google-as-user-experience-direct/May 27th 2010 11:33AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/27/palms-matias-duarte-has-joined-google-as-user-experience-direct/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/27/palms-matias-duarte-has-joined-google-as-user-experience-direct/May 27th 2010 11:42AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/27/palms-matias-duarte-has-joined-google-as-user-experience-direct/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/27/palms-matias-duarte-has-joined-google-as-user-experience-direct/
I doubt we're really going to see a merging of webOS and android. Outside of patent/legal concerns, my guess is that the android team wants to innovate, not simply copy a competing platform. Im sure he was brought in to revamp/improve the android UI, but Im not expecting it to resemble webOS all that much.]]>May 27th 2010 1:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/27/palms-matias-duarte-has-joined-google-as-user-experience-direct/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/27/palms-matias-duarte-has-joined-google-as-user-experience-direct/May 27th 2010 11:24AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/27/palms-matias-duarte-has-joined-google-as-user-experience-direct/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/27/palms-matias-duarte-has-joined-google-as-user-experience-direct/May 27th 2010 11:28AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/27/palms-matias-duarte-has-joined-google-as-user-experience-direct/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/27/palms-matias-duarte-has-joined-google-as-user-experience-direct/May 27th 2010 1:55PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/27/palms-matias-duarte-has-joined-google-as-user-experience-direct/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/27/palms-matias-duarte-has-joined-google-as-user-experience-direct/
Let's se what he brings to the platform. :D]]>May 27th 2010 11:24AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/27/palms-matias-duarte-has-joined-google-as-user-experience-direct/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/27/palms-matias-duarte-has-joined-google-as-user-experience-direct/May 27th 2010 12:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/27/palms-matias-duarte-has-joined-google-as-user-experience-direct/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/27/palms-matias-duarte-has-joined-google-as-user-experience-direct/May 27th 2010 12:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/27/palms-matias-duarte-has-joined-google-as-user-experience-direct/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/27/palms-matias-duarte-has-joined-google-as-user-experience-direct/May 27th 2010 1:55PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/27/palms-matias-duarte-has-joined-google-as-user-experience-direct/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/27/palms-matias-duarte-has-joined-google-as-user-experience-direct/May 27th 2010 11:24AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/27/palms-matias-duarte-has-joined-google-as-user-experience-direct/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/27/palms-matias-duarte-has-joined-google-as-user-experience-direct/
This isn't just great news, its pure WIN!]]>May 27th 2010 12:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/27/palms-matias-duarte-has-joined-google-as-user-experience-direct/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/27/palms-matias-duarte-has-joined-google-as-user-experience-direct/May 27th 2010 11:24AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/27/palms-matias-duarte-has-joined-google-as-user-experience-direct/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/27/palms-matias-duarte-has-joined-google-as-user-experience-direct/May 27th 2010 11:25AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/27/palms-matias-duarte-has-joined-google-as-user-experience-direct/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/27/palms-matias-duarte-has-joined-google-as-user-experience-direct/May 27th 2010 11:28AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/27/palms-matias-duarte-has-joined-google-as-user-experience-direct/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/27/palms-matias-duarte-has-joined-google-as-user-experience-direct/May 27th 2010 11:28AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/27/palms-matias-duarte-has-joined-google-as-user-experience-direct/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/27/palms-matias-duarte-has-joined-google-as-user-experience-direct/May 27th 2010 12:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/27/palms-matias-duarte-has-joined-google-as-user-experience-direct/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/27/palms-matias-duarte-has-joined-google-as-user-experience-direct/May 27th 2010 11:25AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/27/palms-matias-duarte-has-joined-google-as-user-experience-direct/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/27/palms-matias-duarte-has-joined-google-as-user-experience-direct/and the music player]]>May 27th 2010 12:55PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/27/palms-matias-duarte-has-joined-google-as-user-experience-direct/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/27/palms-matias-duarte-has-joined-google-as-user-experience-direct/(I never played with Palm phones; I use Meridian player with Android.]]>May 27th 2010 2:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/27/palms-matias-duarte-has-joined-google-as-user-experience-direct/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/27/palms-matias-duarte-has-joined-google-as-user-experience-direct/May 27th 2010 11:25AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/27/palms-matias-duarte-has-joined-google-as-user-experience-direct/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/27/palms-matias-duarte-has-joined-google-as-user-experience-direct/May 27th 2010 11:25AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/27/palms-matias-duarte-has-joined-google-as-user-experience-direct/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/27/palms-matias-duarte-has-joined-google-as-user-experience-direct/May 27th 2010 11:26AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/27/palms-matias-duarte-has-joined-google-as-user-experience-direct/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/27/palms-matias-duarte-has-joined-google-as-user-experience-direct/May 27th 2010 11:26AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/27/palms-matias-duarte-has-joined-google-as-user-experience-direct/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/27/palms-matias-duarte-has-joined-google-as-user-experience-direct/May 27th 2010 11:26AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/27/palms-matias-duarte-has-joined-google-as-user-experience-direct/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/27/palms-matias-duarte-has-joined-google-as-user-experience-direct/May 27th 2010 11:26AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/27/palms-matias-duarte-has-joined-google-as-user-experience-direct/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/27/palms-matias-duarte-has-joined-google-as-user-experience-direct/
One wonders though what prompted this move? I mean with HP this guy would have had pretty much unlimited resources to make webOS even better....

Now he's moving to google for what?]]>May 27th 2010 11:26AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/27/palms-matias-duarte-has-joined-google-as-user-experience-direct/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/27/palms-matias-duarte-has-joined-google-as-user-experience-direct/May 27th 2010 11:29AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/27/palms-matias-duarte-has-joined-google-as-user-experience-direct/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/27/palms-matias-duarte-has-joined-google-as-user-experience-direct/
google is definitely not bigger than HP when it comes to money...

As for playing a bigger role "fish" or w/e thats up for interpretation. Of course I don't like android or android fanboys so I don't see whats so alluring about his position.]]>May 27th 2010 11:35AM