Stefan Mileschin

And discovered why Google rejected it

Chris Lee, a former staff interaction designer at Google has written a blog where he claimed to have nearly sold the higher-ups on an idea which later appeared in Apple’s Safari.

Dubbed Chrome Home, this was an ambitious redesign of mobile Chrome's main UI. It brought Chrome's toolbar to the bottom of the screen and turned in into a peeking panel that could be swiped to expose additional controls.

Lee reasoned that since phones were growing in size,Google had the opportunity to innovate in creating a gestural, spatial interface that would still be usable with one hand.

Mobile Chrome was also growing in features - but because its minimalist interface kept everything behind a "three-dot" menu, these features were underutilised and hard to access.

https://fudzilla.com/news/53290-appl...-a-chrome-idea