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The idea of chrome web apps on the Android version of Chrome is kinda strange, as on the one hand side Google is already in charge of a much better working app store for Android, where most chrome apps are even already listed. Furthermore Chrome apps have been designed for laptops and not for phones or tablets.

The solution below, however, is really great for Chrome extensions. You might remember: other than Chrome apps, extensions mostly focus on the web experience. They're kind like more advanced and less annoying and hideous browser toolbars. And they've basically been part of the Chrome Web Store's origin.

My idea for a great Android Key Lime Pie update is to build an Android desktop, thus making the OS finally much more attractive for tablets. At first this does not only seem to be a very extensive and ambitious idea, but also a strange one, as other firms are currently moving away from the desktop, and as Google already has chrome OS for this kind of things. But I think the desktop is sometimes just superior, and full-screen applications won’t last forever. Meanwhile Microsoft just fails in making the Windows desktop finally touch-friendly. The concept photo below shows an example of how such a desktop could be implemented. The desktop UI is placed above the homescreen, so that you can get there by scrolling up (like switching between the different homescreen pages, but up). To make the windows as simple as possible, all interactions, such as minimizing or closing, are implemented within the task bar (swiping the icons up, down, left or right). And as many Android applications are already pretty good in adapting to different screen sizes, they are probably also already well-prepared for working in windows. The idea is that every application can be opened on the desktop and not only special ones, though developers can of course also optimize their apps to this interface.

In the concept I tried to focus on two main aspects. On the one hand side I wanted it to show such a full-functional experiece, being similar to the real play store on Android phones. On the other hand side I also tried to find a way the store could be used as well without the need of any voice-commands, but only with the touchpad.

To achieve the latter one, scrolling and swiping plays a very important role. Scrolling upon the pages bottom or top can set off full interactions, as for example to install an application or to navigate back (much like the ‘swipe down to refresh’ feature found in many mobile applications).

Further more there is also a new way to point the user to voice commands incidentally: The commands are often part of headlines. So the real title is formatted differently than the thing you might say.

I think all in all this could work really well. Especially the fact that you don’t need voice commands is something I’d really like about it. You just cannot always speak freely, sometimes it’s too noisy and sometimes you just don’t want everybody to know what you’re doing right now.

Whether 3rd party cards in Google Now are a good idea or not depends on as what you define Google Now. When it is made to get to learn you intelligently and to combine all of Google's services and capacities, then third party notifications would probably not make much sense. But if Google Now is made to show you ‘by the way’ information, which could interest you, but don’t have to. Or that could point you to something which you otherwise also wouldn't miss, then third party cards would make sense.

I made this to see how the flat ios7 -design would look like applied to Mac OS. And I think the result is not too bad. Something like this is also not too unlikely to happen! Especially the dock looked much the same on Mac OS and on #iOS up to now and I think #Apple probably wants to continue this.

What are your thoughts about this? Do you think the iOS7 design would do well in Mac OS?