Google go all designy on us

So this is kind of typical. As you can see in the last link i have a little bit of a dig at Google for lacking in the design area and failing to take real care of the detail in designing beautiful user interfaces. And then what do they go and do… go and deploy a well crafted, uniform interface across all of it’s major products and apps.
After the introduction of Google+ they started to roll out a few updates but you can see the clear initiative here is to create a uniform and standard interface covering all major products. To be honest I think it’s all great. Today we started using the new Gmail and Calendar themes which are great. For us using Google Apps For Business it creates a more professional looking application and creates a confidence with our users that web applications like Gmail are as good if not better that traditional desktop applications. There’s been plenty of great stuff coming out of Google this week. I’m just looking forward to getting stuck into Google+.