How to build web applications that have a look&feel like Google+?

Question

For ages, our company uses Dojo as the interface library of choice. The applications created have a very desktop-like look & feel and are very suitable for business areas and banking.

However, I see a trend towards user interfaces that are more like Google+:

• page-based instead of internal scrolling
• not many modal popup windows but rather edit-in-place and drop-out things
• loading additional list items via scrolling to the bottom of the page

all that kind of user interaction. Basically, a light and more web-centric usability approach.

Unfortunatelly, I don't know of an library that really helps in building such interfaces - I know jQuery UI, Sencha, Cappucino, Sproutcore and the like, but they do not quite fit.

Does anybody know of some new ui component library for sites like Google+?

Answer 1

A lot of the interface patterns used in Google+ are in Google Closure Library.