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I have very very limited knowledge regarding UI/UX design and want to learn stuff for a side project I am working on which will bank heavily on good UI/UX. I take Google's circle UI as an excellent example of user friendly UI and would like to know the technologies/techniques which were (probably) used to build and then maybe use it as a reference.

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Hi Kartik, welcome to UX! Your question is mostly about implementation, while this site deals with the design of UX, and programming is outside its scope. In terms of technology this question is better asked on Stack Overflow. – Vitaly Mijiritsky Oct 2 '11 at 7:17

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You could learn a lot by just looking at the source code. In most browsers, you can just hit ctrl+u and view the source code. You can also use Firefox and the Firebug plugin to watch the JavaScript in action. I haven't inspected the code, but my guess is that it would be some combination of JavaScript and either Canvas or SVG. It could be Flash as well, but that would surprise me a little.

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