After some time, Google has re-designed its search results page with an obvious sidebar with icons on the left side that can be toggled to show more search options. The new layout appears to be an attempt to simplify the filtering of search results down to exactly what you are looking for, as well as stand out to even the casual user.
This has been in the works for some time, and in November 2009, JavaScript tweaks were one of the only ways to see it.
It appears that the change is being pushed out globally to Google’s user base. Not all in one shot, because I’ve noticed that it has only appeared about 7 out of 10 times and is seemingly favored by my signing in with a Google Account and in the Chrome browser.
Here are some screen clippings of the new search result page: read more
Something that excites me more than anything is cool innovation and ideas. Recently Adaptive Path, a product experience and design specialty company, produced a concept video, titled Aurora, giving a view into a unique and exciting online user experience combined with seamless collaboration and communication. Adaptive Path’s summary of the Aurora concept video:
Aurora is a concept video presenting one possible future user experience for the Web, created by Adaptive Path as part of the Mozilla Labs concept browser series. Aurora explores new ways people could interact with the Web in the future based on projected technological trends and real-world scenarios.
Watch the embedded video below or click here to watch the video in HD.
Concepts and ideas like what is laid out in the video and some recent blog posts from the Adaptive Path blog, are the exact kind of thinking and development that will drive the user experience towards continuity and the sort of fluidity that can’t help but increase productivity.
Being a systems geek by nature, I cannot help but think of the powerhouse data centers that will power and be behind the driving forces of concepts like these, along with the communication links and complex network architectures required to make it happen.
All that being said, it is always refreshing to know organizations and individuals are out there striving to bend and push technology beyond its limits, even in concept.
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