Google's House of Cards

Posted by Unknown on Thursday May 16, 2013 @02:13AM from the remembering-webos dept.

theodp writes "In 'The Design That Conquered Google,' The New Yorker's Matt Buchanan reports that 'cards' — modeled after real cards — are set to become one of the dominant ways in which Google presents certain types of information to users. The power of a card as a visual-organization metaphor according to Matias Duarte (lead designer of Android), is that 'it makes very clear the atomic unity of things; it's still flexible while creating a kind of regularity.' Hey, maybe that Bill Atkinson was really on to something with that dadgum HyperCard software of his back in the '80s!"

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Words by Hypotensive · 2013-05-16 02:18 · Score: 5, Insightful

The main advantage of presenting something as a card is that the word "card" is different from the word "page", and people are kind of tired of hearing the word "page" now.
1. Re:Words by Anonymous Coward · 2013-05-16 02:24 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  Googler here. Actually, the problem is internal to Google -- it's too easy to confuse (web) page with (Larry) Page.
Re:WebOS by Sabah+Arif · 2013-05-16 03:14 · Score: 5, Informative

The similarity to WebOS is no coincidence since Matias Duarte was the chief designer at Palm before moving to Google. He even gave demos at the Pre/WebOS launch.
Will he change his name now, by fredrated · 2013-05-16 03:35 · Score: 5, Funny

to Larry Card?