Wednesday, May 09, 2007
New User Interface for Google Analytics
Google Analytics is now providing a new user interface.
Although it was unveiled yesterday, they will be turning it on for each account (yes, one by one) during the next two months. I loose that lottery so I have to wait to see it in action. I don't understand the reasons why are they making something like that, but I can imagine the guy behind scenes making some magic tricks by hand ;)
Once again, only those who have a lot of cash can afford a complete year just to remake a user interface, real world software developers should add some functionalities in the meanwhile too. The Office Team did the same for two years... Could you estimate the investment of that?
But this throw light on one of the directions the industry is putting the focus: good user interfaces. It is our argument after all, software developers will need to remake their user interfaces in the following years and someone (guess who?) should provide an easy way to do that, and make their life simpler.
BTW, the demo looks great. I am wondering if they have a public API to interact at a data-level. I don't know nothing like this for the Desktop, and I think we could integrate it very easily... I will ask the guys from Urchin Software for that and keep you in track.
Labels: Internet, Usability, UX
