Cameron Adams on Designing Google Wave
We were really excited to announce that Cameron Adams will be speaking at Web Directions South this year on his experiences working as part of the Google Wave team. For an extensive preview of Cameron’s presentation, check out this interview that’s just been published at SitePoint.
Speaking about who the team had in mind in designing the product:
Much like a lot of stuff at Google, Google Wave is mostly written to scratch our own itch. Are we missing something that we need? Are we building something that we don’t need? In that sense, we aim for a fairly decent level of technical competency, as they are the early adopters. But we aim for the basics of the interface to be simple enough for less competent users to pick up fairly easily.
Read on for Cameron’s thoughts on defining interfaces for a form of communication that’s yet to exist, user testing, early adopters vs getting into enterprises and accessibility.
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