Doug Bowman, web celebrity with parentship of some Blogger templates, has been collaborating with Google over the last couple of months. It seems like a logical step that Google is hiring him now permanently. As a consequence, Doug will stop his contract work at StopDesign, which has always been a great influencial source of information around web development.

Not so long ago Google was looking for a creative director, but their job description didn’t really sound like they had a precise idea of what this job would involve. Which is not meant as a critique. I think this way of organic growth has always been a great part of Google.

Now that the company has grown big, the brand has become so influencial, that it is about time someone starts taking control over a unified look and feel of the company’s surface on the web. If you had asked me to name someone quickly who’d be fit for that job, I would have said Doug Bowman. Peter Morville believes there aren’t many experience designers out there. I think Doug Bowman is one of them.