I Received my Google Wave invite from Google this morning. After a long wait it was relieving to see that Google considered me by sending the invite. The service looks incredibly exciting but there is alot of playing and learning to be done since it is such an innovative and different product.

Google was kind enough to provide me with a few invites which I already have sent a few out to some colleagues and friends as I discovered pretty quick that Google Wave is awesome if you have people to wave to. Unfortunately at present I seem to be the only one I know with Google Wave so it’s great features and collaboration abilities remain largely unusable to me. Quite ironically just after coming to this conclusion I found this image on twitter:

Its comically true!

The interface is clean and quite Apple Mac in appearance with the signature Gmail blue everywhere. It got me thinking about the upcoming Goolge OS and it’s user interface. Google has created a unified interface through out its online applications and services, however the interface of wave looks more like an improvement of the current Google style, or perhaps a hybrid between that of a Mac’s GUI and Gmail. This is probably a clue to how the Google OS will be styled, a hybrid Mac cross Gmail. It is obvious that the Google OS will be distinctly Gmail blue in colour, however with Google Wave it seems as if Google is creating an aesthetic that goes beyond web design and layout, it seems as though they are after an aesthetic that would suit a desktop too. As I have learned through web design that a desktop interface and that of a website are completely different. It would make sense to reconcile their web design and desktop design as Google seems ultimately after the fusion of the desktop environment and the web application, therefore interface design coherence would be required. However only time will reveal what the anticipated Google OS will hold for us.

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