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For strange reasons I am getting the same vibe I got when I was viewing Google's Wave promotion, as if Google had uncovered the best thing ever. Everyone at Goo
by antimora 11y ago
For strange reasons I am getting the same vibe I got when I was viewing Google's Wave promotion, as if Google had uncovered the best thing ever. Everyone at Google seems super excited about their new things. I suppose when they're in their own little silo universe everything seems exciting and right.
Again I am only speaking about the feeling I got after watching the promotion video.
- chillingeffect 11y agoYou are totally right. I would just add that the meme "designers are rockstars and vital to the information age" doesn't originate from Google. It originated from designers themselves. The designers have now fully infected Google... None of these problems are new. People have now contemplated them for an entire generation in science fiction books and movies, video game interfaces, CAD interfaces, music instrument interfaces, art, Xerox, Media Lab, etc. Really though, animated interfaces are a short-term fad which is subject to boom and bust cycles just like 90s icons graduated to high-res icons and then back to microsoft tile icons. When peoples' hardware can no longer handle the animations and they learn to associate animation with skipped frames, impeded workflow, etc., the cycle will revert itself.
- Animats 11y agoVisual feedback from user actions is a good idea, provided that 1) it happens every time, and 2) it happens right now every time, even if it takes time for the action to complete. Not seeing that mandated.
- dman 11y agoSpot on, this really gives me peak bubble kind of vibes.