Sidekick Designer Working on New Palm UI

Techtree News Staff, Jul 04, 2008 0839 hrs IST

A new interface for a new Palm device? Matias Duarte, the designer of the Sidekick interface is now working at Palm

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Anyone else around that still cares about Palm? They used to be good, with great product design and smart interfaces, they knew where it was at. The past few years haven't been kind to Palm -- what with their identity crisis both as a brand and as a thought-leader; a tumultuous period of transition, if ever there was one.

Well, here is some good news for us Palm fans: Engadget reports that the person behind the slick interface of the Sidekick and the Helio has now taken up residence at Palm.

Matias Duarte, the designer in question, has been confirmed by Palm to be in their employ. This is exciting news since Palm has been promising something revolutionary ever since their spun-off company PalmSource adopted Linux as their core OS kernel. Palm's interface has been stuck in design limbo for ages now. What was once a masterful interface, especially for one-handed operation, now seem archaic next to the likes of the Apple iPhone.

One hopes that Matias is indeed working on a new design for their next-gen OS, codenamed Nova. Nova is being developed at what was PalmSource but is now ACCESS -- confusing, isn't it? Nova's development is expected to be done by the end of 2008, to be followed by a device announcement around Feb of 2009.

Of course, Matias could be designing the UI to be agnostic to the OS. This would give Palm the flexibility to run on both Windows Mobile devices and the Linux-based OS that ACCESS/PalmSource is working on.



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Palm's next gen OS is --NOT-- being developed by ACCESS... check your facts!

by anon, anon, on Jul 05, 2008 04:32 AM, Report abuse Reply

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