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It definitely looks better when viewed as a screenshot or in a graphic design presentation. Of course actual usability is far worse, but nobody cares about that
by RyanZAG 11y ago
It definitely looks better when viewed as a screenshot or in a graphic design presentation. Of course actual usability is far worse, but nobody cares about that. Only how shiny it is. The people making the decisions on which design to go for are given screenshot or mockup presentations in 5 minutes and asked to choose which design to go for. They will always go for the shiniest one, and you end up with stuff like this.
There's some comment about the low attention span we force on executives by making them take 1000s of decisions per day that they aren't even experts in and rewarding them for it in all this.
- r00fus 11y agoSomewhat counterintuitive... I mean Google knows better than relying on stills for what is interactive content, right?
- tajen 11y agoI don't know, did they ever hire an Apple designer? Ah, no, they had a no-poach agreement. Perhaps they had to revert on poaching Pinterest designers, though.
- 21echoes 11y ago... you honestly think Google has no analytics on whether or not design changes affect UX? And that they'd stick with a significantly worse-performing page?
- nissehulth 11y agoThey will only have numbers for the people that are actually using Google+. The millions that prefer other social networks may have different views on the G+ usability.