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Having worked on Maps myself (as well as other stuff at Google): you're exactly right. It's make-work. Fixing things that aren't broken, so the PM, UX, and Eng
by AlbertCory 3y ago
Having worked on Maps myself (as well as other stuff at Google): you're exactly right. It's make-work. Fixing things that aren't broken, so the PM, UX, and Eng leads can say they did something and get promoted.
To be fair, the same process has been underway on MS Word and Excel for 30 years now. Simple things (like designating the top row of the spreadsheet to be a non-scrolling header) should be simple, and they're not anymore.
- gorbachev 3y agoFreeze pane...you're so right about that one. Every time I want to use it, it's like a 5-minute needle in the haystack search.
- tbyehl 3y agoIt's not complicated, it's right where it should be, it just has a label that somehow manages to be both highly correct in a technical sense and completely unintuitive to anyone who doesn't already know what it's called.
- gorbachev 3y agoIt's not only that, but also the way the ribbon UI resizes when things don't fit on screen all at once. You never know, if there are functionality that's missing from view.
- drpixie 3y agoYES - The ribbon UI has been around for ... what, decades, now. And it's still less usable that regular menus :(