New Google Images interface design takes a page from Bing’s website Part – 2
Copying or paying tribute to the Bing interface design?
While it is no doubt an excellent idea to reinvigorate a user interface (especially when you make an images interface all about the images), the changes to Google Images are not necessarily new per se. Google’s new interface design is strikingly similar to Bing.com’s Images user interface design—in fact it is almost uncanny.
Of course it would be unfair to call Google unoriginal in its interface design choices. After all, it’s the details of an interface design that matter in the world of good usability. In this case, Google seems to have picked up a good interface design idea and improved it through yet a more prominent display of the images through their larger size. Everything that rises out of the creative world is influenced by what came before it. Good ideas are infectious and if Google took a page from Bing’s website then that means they obviously liked what they saw. That is the give and take in the world of interface design, painting, even literature. Variations of what is working well for someone else. Still, time will tell how well Google’s users respond to the new changes. But for now, Google continues to surf the wave of internet success, being authentic in many instances, but also not afraid to concede and adopt good interface design solutions.
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