Lead designer of Google, responsible for developing the interface, Matias Duarte, criticized its rivals Apple and Microsoft in a recent interview.

The designer emphasized the fact that Google tries to create a balance between design and comfort, while interface of Apple with their realistic cartoon images looks like rough work done in the early days of web design.

“Look at all this pseudo-reality.

Fake tree, fake vintage metal, fake jelly …”, says Duarte, “It looks ridiculous.

This is not a realistic picture, it’s just an illustration. This was made a few years ago.

If you make your site look like this today, you will be laughed at. Unless you do not do it as a joke in the kitsch style”.

The interface of Windows Phone 7 is styled in the opposite manner which Duarte found not easy enough to work with data.

Android 4.0, in turn, is very similar to the Web, where there is a huge part of freedom to adjust the interface to the user.

There is an opportunity to create your own personal interface with a number of standardized elements, such as the control band at the bottom.

Also, the designer gave some examples of what has changed in policy 4.0. The basic movement is made towards the freedom of applications management.

Thus, any application can be deleted.

Duarte said that many problems with the closeness of Android 3.0 were caused by the haste in which it was created and a desire to make the interface specifically for the tablet with a 10 inches screen.

In order to lay the foundation of a new interface, for a tablet, the company had to agree to a compromise.

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