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Sadlly even this monstruosity is way better than the google I/O website itself. When push comes to shove ... it's a list of videos, and perhaps a schedule. The
by candiodari 9y ago
Sadlly even this monstruosity is way better than the google I/O website itself. When push comes to shove ... it's a list of videos, and perhaps a schedule.
There's a big bar at the top with the title. Then a tiny bar with the videos, and then a solid 2/3 of the height dedicated to the "feed". I mean come on.
It doesn't take resolutions into account at all. At 1366x768 (apparently the most common web resolution) you can only see the title bar, "day 1" "day 2" "day 3" (clicking on them, of course, does not bring anything into view, you have to click, realize that it's not a link but a single page app, and then scroll to get it in the middle of the screen) and the text "highlights". Other than that, useless marketing picture/backgrounds and "design", which apparently means whitespace.
The schedule, the other main reason people would visit that site, cannot be seen on the main page with my browser at 4k (!). Although of course the only things resizing are the marketing picture that is the "title bar" of the page and the 2 links at the bottom.
Is this supposed to be good web design ? Because I actually find the youtube videos listing, which is designed explicitly to distract you away from the videos more usable than the I/O website.
"Make information universally accessible and usable", indeed, except of course when marketing prefers pretty pictures that half of the web has grown completely allergic to. I mean, the pictures are not as repulsive as most business websites, but ...