Handful of Nothing

While I don’t need to say that I don’t have information to agree with this post, I need to admit that the phone is looking quite interesting.

For now I will only talk that a lot of ui design challenges that we faced are solved, and it was kind of funny and informative to see how google ui guys solved it, because there’s always a couple of ways to solve a problem:

a. The easiest, most obvious way. It works but has most of the time a higher cost in experience WoW
b. The medium way, where you try to bend the rules, increase the average experience and can make the difference
c. The really bold, where you will suffer critics to be really different, but those are the ones who can really make your product have personality and stand out from the crowd with a king.

Of course in the same proportion the risk of doing a incredible crap thing comes with the choice but you need them in today’s market, where the iphone is the standard for user experience.

The g1 seems to be on most of the time on the a, and just a little bit on b. You can see that most of the decisions are more on the safe side for obvious reasons, and while I disagree with a lot of details they are not in any way the “problematic” ones.

I think the point is that I was expecting more from google than the usually do, and what they do it exactly what they did with their other projects: really simple UI and sometimes (ok a lot of times more than sometimes) sparks of greatness that really can make the product be loved by a lot of users.

Now it’s time to wait to put the hands on the phone, but not being fan boy it will be for sure a real contender in the market :) The regular cellphone guys will soon know how much should they worry with the G1.