Android User Experience Chief, Mattias Duarte

Q&A: Android Design Chief Details Google's Mobile Future | Gadget Lab | Wired.com. Okay, let's get the elephant in the room out of the way first. She Who Must Be Obeyed would never let me out of the house wearing this shirt; and, she definitely wouldn't allow me to have my photo taken in front of this tapestry. I guess we now know why I will never be made Operating System Design Chief for a large software company. On the other hand, Mattias Duarte created the WebOS design for Palm and then HP, and they both failed. Will he have an effect on Android? That said, Android 4.0, which is Google's and Duarte's attempt to standardize the design of Android, and to remove the fragmentation that makes the OS problematic on many machines, is a smooth looking OS, and will bring tablet and phone interfaces to the next level. Now, if we can just get Mattias a new shirt.