With Google Apps Google enters a two-way fight between Microsoft and Adobe for the loyalty of developers and publishers of online media.With the Google App Engine, Google is adding
its own approach to the fight between Microsoft and Adobe over how
developers and designers should work together on Web applications.
Although
Microsoft and Adobe seem to be
duking
it out over the issue of developer-designer workflow, Google enters the
scene with its own focus on how designers and developers can work together
using Google App Engine.
Microsoft has been touting connections between its Expression suite of
design tools and its Visual Studio developer tool, and Adobe offers its
Creative Suite and Flex tools, along with its upcoming "Thermo"
technology, to help designers and developers work better together.
However, at the recent Google I/O developer conference, members of the
Google UX team spoke on the need for designers and developers to work better
together and said Google App Engine is the place for it. Google App Engine lets
developers build and run their Web applications on Google's infrastructure.
To acknowledge how closely the two disciplines need to work together,
Lindsey Simon, a developer on the Google UX team, said he was looking for a
"design husband." Simon said he was quoting Simon Willison, a co-creator of the Django
Python-based Web development framework, who had said, "I need to find a
design husband."
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