Google Is Testing a New Chrome UI
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Google Is Testing a New Chrome UI
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Re: Google Is Testing a New Chrome UI
#2The images posted in that article look pretty bad. Why are they adding so much wasted space above the tabs?
The current chrome UI is quite good at exposing necessary functionality without wasting space.
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#3> "Google designers should definitely take a page out of Firefox's book and use a side-scrolling system, which keep tab names visible."
What? God no, that's the worst anti-pattern in tabs. Keep all tabs visible all the time. If there are too many tabs, then the user can choose to clean them up however they like (by closing some, splitting some off into another window, etc.) A scrolling window of tabs is horrible from a usability perspective. You have no concept of how many tabs are open, you have a convoluted experience to switch between tabs on different ends of the tab list, etc.
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#4To each their own, but I’d hate the firefox-style scrolling tabs UI suggested by the article.
1. I don’t want to be surprised to find some old tab hidden by the scroll.
2. Id like to be able to close tabs without first scrolling to it.
3. If I control tab past the last tab does it scroll to the first tab? Id then have to scroll back to find my latest tabs?
4. Again, personal preference, but if I had 50 tabs open and wanted to go back to the 24th one, id rather navigate to it through a search engine or bookmarks, rather than trying to locate that particular tab.
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#5The images posted in that article look pretty bad. Why are they adding so much wasted space above the tabs? The current chrome UI is quite good at exposing necessary functionality without wasting space.
pretty sure that’s a windows thing, compare with the screenshot of current cheome in the article.
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#6> "Google designers should definitely take a page out of Firefox's book and use a side-scrolling system, which keep tab names visible." What? God no, that's the worst anti-pattern in tabs. Keep all tabs visible all the time. If there are too many tabs, then the user can choose to clean them up however they like (by closing some, splitting some off into another window, etc.) A scrolling window of tabs is horrible from…
> that's the worst anti-pattern in tabs.
Worse than that is Chrome's way of animating tabs long after you close the tab. You close your tab, go back to what you're doing, and then the tab row animates to slide into a new position after an unnecessary pause. It's extremely distracting, because my brain sees the motion and interrupts my new task, thinking that there might be something happening in a different part of the screen that I should investigate.
It's a serious problem with UI animation in general that keeps getting worse.
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#7To each their own, but I’d hate the firefox-style scrolling tabs UI suggested by the article. 1. I don’t want to be surprised to find some old tab hidden by the scroll. 2. Id like to be able to close tabs without first scrolling to it. 3. If I control tab past the last tab does it scroll to the first tab? Id then have to scroll back to find my latest tabs? 4. Again, personal preference, but if I had 50 tabs open and…
You can see all open Firefox tabs, including titles, with a button to the right of the tabs.
You can move a tab to the right with ctrl-tab and back to the left with ctrl-shift-tab. If you go too far, just ctrl-shift-tab.
How would you go to the 24th tab in Chrome, if no title is visible? With Firefox, you can use the button to the right of the tabs to view a list of all tabs, with titles, and find your tab from there.
Another useful tool is onetab. When you have too many tabs, send them into onetab and reopen them as you need them.
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#8> The new "Refresh" design looks more closely to a user interface designed using the rules and guides from Google's visual design language known as "Material Design."
That's the most worrying thing about it. Material Design has serious accessibility problems (motion and color) and is full of some really bad design ideas. It encourages people to abandon aesthetic restraint. If you walk around smashing cymbals together, your data will show that you are getting people's attention, but it won't necessarily mean that it's a good idea.
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#9> "Google designers should definitely take a page out of Firefox's book and use a side-scrolling system, which keep tab names visible." What? God no, that's the worst anti-pattern in tabs. Keep all tabs visible all the time. If there are too many tabs, then the user can choose to clean them up however they like (by closing some, splitting some off into another window, etc.) A scrolling window of tabs is horrible from…
> that's the worst anti-pattern in tabs. Worse than that is Chrome's way of animating tabs long after you close the tab. You close your tab, go back to what you're doing, and then the tab row animates to slide into a new position after an unnecessary pause. It's extremely distracting, because my brain sees the motion and interrupts my new task, thinking that there might be something happening in a different part of t…
The pause is actually a feature, the tab resizing is delayed so that the next tab's close button will be positioned under your cursor.
FWIW Firefox and Edge both do the same thing.
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#10> The new "Refresh" design looks more closely to a user interface designed using the rules and guides from Google's visual design language known as "Material Design." That's the most worrying thing about it. Material Design has serious accessibility problems (motion and color) and is full of some really bad design ideas. It encourages people to abandon aesthetic restraint. If you walk around smashing cymbals together…
I have a hard time telling which elements are clickable, and which are not, with material design. Flat buttons , of course, are similar to labels.