3D glasses in Google Maps Street View!

Woah, this is cool. Now I need some 3D glasses so I can try this. I wonder if this is a permanent thing or an April Fool’s joke?

Google Docs dialog box rename

This doesn’t make a lick of sense. This should be a “click to edit” editable region. Isn’t that the cool thing to do these days? The pop-up works, sure, but it’s not the most elegant solution.

Also, I’d like a pony and a golden toilet, while you’re at it Google Docs.

Gmail intro page

I like the highlights on this intro page. It’s a nice last minute refresher and orientation to how Gmail is different from most mail applications.

I tend to agree with their choice of content for this page. Those 3, archive vs. delete, video/chat, label vs. folders, are probably the 3 most notible differences between Gmail and the competition.

If I had to pick a UI Scrap on this page that really stands out to me, it’d have to be the gray areas showing where each module/component is found in the actual interface. This might even be an effective way to show off highlights in a wireframe as well.

Google Docs intuitive drag and drop

It’s nice to see Google Docs mimicing the behavior of desktop applications. It’s not news: web apps can compete with and possibly out perform desktop apps by doing exactly that, mimicing them.

Lesson to learn: If you’re a web app, be as intuitive as a desktop app, and I’ll be happy.

Here I’m draggin a document into a folder. Just before I discovered this, I thought to myself “wouldn’t it be nice if I could just drag and drop this instead of clicking to select and using the menu?” A typical path to completion on a web site.

Sure enough, to my surprise, Google is one step ahead of me. Well done, Sir’s and Madam’s.

Google Maps points north