Google is About to Get a New Face

Doug Bowman, who had a hand creating the awesome Google Calendar UI, has been hired as Visual Design Lead to help "the company establish a common visual language across all their collaborative and communication products." Maybe this means the days of google's hideous UIs are numbered? I hope so. Google Calendar is slick, everything else is just blah.

[1] http://www.stopdesign.com/log/2006/05/27/going-to-google.html