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It looks nice, but it doesn't feel quite right. Too much functionality depends on iconography, which leaves me having to map pictograms to actual words. It's O
by timdorr 15y ago
It looks nice, but it doesn't feel quite right.
Too much functionality depends on iconography, which leaves me having to map pictograms to actual words. It's OK for me to read some words. You're going to have to translate the interface anyways.
And there's very little use of contrast or color to help determine what is going on. My blogs and the reading list don't have a lot to differentiate each other, so I was initially confused where I would even go to post to my blog.
Also, the "New Blog" button is confusing. Are people really creating that many new blogs that they need a huge, highlighted button for it? I thought it was to make a new post (using "blog" as a verb, really), so I was confused when I click it and got something else.
Pretty attractive update, but fairly bad functionality and usability.
- thomaslangston 15y agoThe huge highlighted button seems to be a common usability issue with many of Google's new designs. They seem to confuse "new user" with "regular user". Case in point being the new groups design. Huge buttons to create a new group, an action that happens very infrequently for me. Plus a huge splash screen with product information (similar to the Blogger blog in the reading list) which as a regular user, I just don't care.
- ugh 15y agoIt’s the page you go to to create new blogs. It is supposed to have a button like that. The most important button on the respective pages looks like that. On that particular page it’s most certainly the button to create a new blog.