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What a shitty user experience. What changed at google? They used to have these rather simple, useful, UIs.
by Keyframe 13y ago
What a shitty user experience. What changed at google? They used to have these rather simple, useful, UIs.
- agildehaus 13y agoDesigners and product managers have taken the reigns from the engineers. Recall that Google at one time never had TV advertisements. Now you can't turn the damn thing on without seeing one.
- devcpp 13y agoExactly. After all, it's pretty much how Apple made its historic unprecedented profits: more designers than engineers.
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- raldi 13y agoReally? What Google commercials have you seen recently?
- agildehaus 13y agoConstant Chrome/cast/book and Nexus tablet ads. I've seen this one far too much: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5LysTmwDan8 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5LysTmwDan8
- wonderyak 13y agoAny designer that knows what they are doing makes things easier to use, not more difficult. I think it would be better to say 'Amateurs have taken the reigns'.
- josteink 13y agoI don't even know what I'm looking at here. It renders incorrectly, had zero info and just shows me pictures of Hollywood celebrities.
- schandur 13y agoI gave the video about 2 seconds before closing the tab.
- Keyframe 13y agoI went through it, I always give a chance to content no matter how presented it is ( a habit of mine). However, it didn't tell me anything. It's like a run-of-the-mill motivation video. To make things worse, I couldn't get to the results of zeitgeist on my own to see what was actually going on. It looks pretty, and I am sure lots of work was put into it and I appreciate that. But it's uninspired and isn't very functional. I expect functionality first from google. Well, I used to.
- yalogin 13y agoWow. I am not the only one that felt like this. That was such a horribly designed UI. I had no idea what I am looking at and why. Google used to all about simplicity. I remember in prior years these kind of posts always had graphs and considerable text explaining trends. Its like someone there realized they are JS experts.
- SiVal 13y agoNo, you're not alone. When they offer data, a lot of us think, "Oh, goodie, some interesting data!" We hustle over there to learn something new and learn it quickly. If instead we are treated to a demonstration of javascript media virtuosity that buries the actual data too deeply to be worth extracting, we get annoyed and complain: "Where's the beef?" (But I don't think there's anybody back there[1].) [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ug75diEyiA0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ug75diEyiA0
- scholia 13y agoI hit the button to say exactly that, but you beat me to it. It's unbelievably bad, even by Google's rapidly declining standards....
- jlarocco 13y agoIn Chrome I get an empty dark blue screen unless I tell Ghostery not to block the Google +1 tracker.