Outside Innovation: Google Wave: It’s My Design, but Will I Use It?

See the full post for more details on Patty Seybold’s Google Wave perspective

I'm pretty sure that I’m responsible for the design of Google's new Wave. I can't take full credit. There are millions of Gmail/Google Chat users like me who no doubt provided the pattern on which Google's new weird communications offering is based.

I haven't yet had the pleasure of trying out Wave. But thanks to early tester, Rafe Needleman's Hands-on with Wave: Weird and quite wonderful, I recognized, right away that I was probably at least partly responsible for the breakthrough design pattern on which Wave is based.

Outside Innovation: Google Wave: It’s My Design, but Will I Use It?