Gallery: Google's UI dreams on iPad

Gallery: Google’s UI dreams on iPad

By Andy Smith February 2, 2010, 12:12 AM PST

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With the grand unveiling of the Apple iPad tablet, developers are having a field day envisioning how operating systems would look like and work on the new hardware. Google has posted some user interface and design mockups potentially for its own tablet.

Glen Murray, a UI designer for Google’s Chrome browser, shows off what a Chrome tablet might look like. Here’s the keyboard and screen.

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Resizing the keyboard.

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Creating your own keyboard.

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Side tabs.

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A video shows how the Google UI might work.

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Hand gestures which could be used on the tablet.

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