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Google somehow manages to make UI's worse and worse as the time progresses. Gtalk was nice, was turned into unusable mess which is Hangouts. Youtube got worse w

Google somehow manages to make UI's worse and worse as the time progresses. Gtalk was nice, was turned into unusable mess which is Hangouts. Youtube got worse with comments and annoying force feeding of real name policy. Maps got way worse after the recent upgrade for reasons you described. GMail as well made some anti-user changes (like for example being unable to log-in from different account if there is a cookie from previous login but also some choices in inbox itself). I wonder if there is some evil UI design department within Google because they are very consistent at messing up once good and user friendly services.

krsunny 13y ago
Google has ruined maps on my Android. So much so that I have reverted it back to original factory version since thats the version which had the single most useful feature of the app - the ability to add what you searched for to your contacts in one press. The number of times they have changed the UI around is ridiculous. I know Im not supposed to be fiddling with my phone while Im driving but if I ever crash its probably because once again Google changed the fucking UI again and I have to figure it out whilst en route.
eropple 13y ago
What's unusable about Hangouts? I think it's a better experience on both mobile and web. And Adium still works just fine with it for person-to-person IM.
- markbnj 13y ago
  I find it a mess, personally, at least on the desktop. I have no real complaints about the mobile version.
- bluecalm 13y ago
  It loses messages all the time. It also sometimes pastes fragments of old messages in the middle of the conversatation Two things GTalk never got wrong which are pretty crucial for messaging service. The UI.. it was a total mess when they introduced it (lack of statutes, difficult to see who is available etc.) but those I have to admit improved recently.
- growt 13y ago
  For me it's the fact that my android phone notifies me about a new chat 5-10 minutes after I finished(!) the conversation on my desktop (gmail, webclient). It's really annoying. My phone beeps, I think: "Oh a new chat", look at the phone, "oh, it's just that thing from 10 minutes ago".
  - bluecalm 13y ago
    I get that the phone can't check for new messages all the time because battery and stuff but wouldn't it be possible to have timestamps for first/last message in a converstation or something so the phone could detect that if the conversation was going on for some time already on different device then it shouldn't notify about it? I mean it doesn't sound like rocket science, are there any deep architecture problems with that ?
    - growt 13y ago
      Yes, and it worked perfectly with Google Talk before the switch to google hangouts. And the battery was fine!

krsunny 13y ago

Google has ruined maps on my Android. So much so that I have reverted it back to original factory version since thats the version which had the single most useful feature of the app - the ability to add what you searched for to your contacts in one press. The number of times they have changed the UI around is ridiculous. I know Im not supposed to be fiddling with my phone while Im driving but if I ever crash its probably because once again Google changed the fucking UI again and I have to figure it out whilst en route.

eropple 13y ago

What's unusable about Hangouts? I think it's a better experience on both mobile and web. And Adium still works just fine with it for person-to-person IM.

markbnj 13y ago
I find it a mess, personally, at least on the desktop. I have no real complaints about the mobile version.
bluecalm 13y ago
It loses messages all the time. It also sometimes pastes fragments of old messages in the middle of the conversatation Two things GTalk never got wrong which are pretty crucial for messaging service. The UI.. it was a total mess when they introduced it (lack of statutes, difficult to see who is available etc.) but those I have to admit improved recently.
growt 13y ago
For me it's the fact that my android phone notifies me about a new chat 5-10 minutes after I finished(!) the conversation on my desktop (gmail, webclient). It's really annoying. My phone beeps, I think: "Oh a new chat", look at the phone, "oh, it's just that thing from 10 minutes ago".
- bluecalm 13y ago
  I get that the phone can't check for new messages all the time because battery and stuff but wouldn't it be possible to have timestamps for first/last message in a converstation or something so the phone could detect that if the conversation was going on for some time already on different device then it shouldn't notify about it? I mean it doesn't sound like rocket science, are there any deep architecture problems with that ?
  - growt 13y ago
    Yes, and it worked perfectly with Google Talk before the switch to google hangouts. And the battery was fine!