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The Google app on my iPhone enabled this a few weeks ago (The home section shows news below the search bar.) The UX was extremely confusing as there was no scr

The Google app on my iPhone enabled this a few weeks ago (The home section shows news below the search bar.) The UX was extremely confusing as there was no scrolling, swiping changed stories, and tapping went to the next page. The content was 90% image and 10% text and was extremely annoying to read. It was also inconsistent from other content, as unlike the other "non-story" items, I could not change preferences (ie ignore the content from a site or ignore the topic). The same set of stories showed up for a week before I just turned the whole feature off.

hedora 6y ago
Also, the image moves slowly behind the text, somehow inducing motion sickness without forcing the user to sit in a car. It’s like the blink tag, but instead of being the result of a drunken bet on Castro St in Mountain View, it’s the result of $1,000,000’s in engineering effort and focus groups.
jon-wood 6y ago
> The UX was extremely confusing as there was no scrolling, swiping changed stories, and tapping went to the next page. The content was 90% image and 10% text and was extremely annoying to read. Yup, as much as I also hate the format, that's the format of stories as popularised by Snapchat/Instagram/TikTok etc. Keep it all very slick, but devoid of content.