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Gmail had an exceptionally well UI, minimal and highly usable. What is bizzare that mailers were extremely bad and you didn't even needed to compare them to Gma
by LolNoGenerics 9y ago
Gmail had an exceptionally well UI, minimal and highly usable. What is bizzare that mailers were extremely bad and you didn't even needed to compare them to Gmail.
JS had maybe it's share, but Gmail was minimal, condensed and fast. Literally no one had that back then and today no one knows because competition is dead. Now every webapp is JS heavy, but there is still a great difference in minimalism. Not saying that google products are small, but they seem to have a better balance in "fancy" user interaction than the rest of the web. The reckless transition to a modern web with more bells and whistles takes it's toll, mostly because "we can", but it should be "make sense here".
- betageek 9y agoI agree, but I would say that Google are performance addicts because of their scale, where seconds actually count. Most apps are never going to be 'web scale', and most of the time there's no trade off to make. Either the devs use libraries to make something work fast and live with a big js bundle, or they optimise too early and go down the perf rabbit hoe and run out of runway. If your product is of enough value your customers aren't going to care about 1-2 seconds, and if it becomes an issue you can do the perf work later.
- sli 9y agoHell, even seconds seem like too much. Google's large enough that they can justifiably be concerned about milliseconds.