{"id":1918,"date":"2011-06-30T12:34:11","date_gmt":"2011-06-30T16:34:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dr-chuck.com\/csev-blog\/?p=1918"},"modified":"2011-12-17T12:09:08","modified_gmt":"2011-12-17T16:09:08","slug":"google-adopts-user-interface-design-from-sakai-2-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dr-chuck.com\/csev-blog\/2011\/06\/google-adopts-user-interface-design-from-sakai-2-9\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Adopts User Interface Design from Sakai 2.9!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dr-chuck.com\/img\/2011\/2011-06-28-google-rip-off.png\" target=\"_new\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dr-chuck.com\/img\/2011\/2011-06-28-google-rip-off.png\" width=\"240\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\"\/><\/a>Google now has a black top bar with sans-serif white and grey text that looks like Sakai 2.9&#8217;s Neo Portal!  (Click on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dr-chuck.com\/img\/2011\/2011-06-28-google-rip-off.png\" target=\"_new\">image<\/a> to see full size screenshot).<\/p>\n<p>What is next?   Rounded corners and a pool of water background for Google?<\/p>\n<p>I would say that Gonzalo&#8217;s glowing blue for the selected item and our speedy-drop-down nav and expando-matic still puts Neo well ahead of Google in terms of UI goodness.   I would say that it is good for Google to continue to aspire to UI greatness, using Sakai Neo as its roadmap.<\/p>\n<p>(To be fair) Neo took its look and feel cues from Sakai OAE, and Sakai OAE ripped a lot of its look and feel from Twitter,  I think &#8211; or perhaps Twitter took its latest look and feel from early OAE work.   It is so confusing to keep track of who borrowed ideas from whom.<\/p>\n<p>P.S.  But seriously, it is nice to see a bit of convergence in these UI&#8217;s serving common purposes.  It is all good for the users IMHO.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google now has a black top bar with sans-serif white and grey text that looks like Sakai 2.9&#8217;s Neo Portal! (Click on image to see full size screenshot). What is next? Rounded corners and a pool of water background for Google? I would say that Gonzalo&#8217;s glowing blue for the selected item and our speedy-drop-down [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1918","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dr-chuck.com\/csev-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1918","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dr-chuck.com\/csev-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dr-chuck.com\/csev-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dr-chuck.com\/csev-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dr-chuck.com\/csev-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1918"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.dr-chuck.com\/csev-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1918\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2088,"href":"https:\/\/www.dr-chuck.com\/csev-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1918\/revisions\/2088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dr-chuck.com\/csev-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dr-chuck.com\/csev-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dr-chuck.com\/csev-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}