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Re: Ask HN: Anyone from Google here? The new Gmail UI is painful

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Post by Udik »

nieksand wrote: post #35

Google web UX has gotten horrific. I used to visit Google News multiple times per day. Then the UX went to hell there too. Each iteration became worse. After the latest changes, it became so unbearably hideous and clunky that I couldn't stand it anymore. I got mad every time I loaded the site. But years of keyboard memory still had me typing in the URL constantly, getting mad every time it loaded up. I finally black…

> Fire whoever is driving your god awful UX on web.

I have the feeling that UX specialists are actually the problem. When you employ people to work on UX and design, well, they will work on it, even if there is nothing to do. So you get periodic redesigns that improve nothing but justify the existence of a bunch of people whose purpose in life is to propose UX changes.

Re: Ask HN: Anyone from Google here? The new Gmail UI is painful

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Post by sfohohoho »

hawski wrote: post #18

I don't mind the look that much, but it's painfully slow. When an application gains a animated splash screen I know that it's time has come. I'm using a Chromebook, so in a way a Google blessed device and it's annoyingly slow. I'm switching to basic HTML view. If it will disappear I will get off gmail for good.

Oh shit. We didn't know "hawski" from the "hackernews form" doesn't like it, lets revert stat!!

Threatening to quit is the equivalent to Godwin."Ima gonna quit" is probably the saddest thing to share on the Internet.

Re: Ask HN: Anyone from Google here? The new Gmail UI is painful

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Post by reeeprgenx »

save_ferris wrote: post #78
hawski wrote: post #18

I don't mind the look that much, but it's painfully slow. When an application gains a animated splash screen I know that it's time has come. I'm using a Chromebook, so in a way a Google blessed device and it's annoyingly slow. I'm switching to basic HTML view. If it will disappear I will get off gmail for good.

it's especially bad on Firefox. With that, and the fact that Google is killing Inbox, it feels like time to look for alternatives.

Please leave GMAIL. I hear AOL has got it going on.

Re: Ask HN: Anyone from Google here? The new Gmail UI is painful

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Post by maimeowmeow »

babuskov wrote: post #17

In don't mind the way it looks, I can live with that. But it's sooo slow. Much slower that previous interface. It loads slow and it works slow. Switching between inbox and another folder use to be instantaneous, now I actually have to wait. Opening messages, deleting, everything is slow. And it looks like they removed the option to turn Undo off, so now I have to wait 5 seconds to my message to actually be sent. I'm…

You cant keep tons of developers to make simple websites. Got to make things complex for job security for all levels.

Re: Ask HN: Anyone from Google here? The new Gmail UI is painful

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Post by bitL »

I like the new look actually (except for confusing icons), but it's just slow and unreliable, can't recall needing to refresh so many times before because loading got stuck. That all on a top end i9 with 100MBit/s Internet connection in a city that has a large Google datacenter.

Re: Ask HN: Anyone from Google here? The new Gmail UI is painful

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Post by reeeprgenx »

nieksand wrote: post #35

Google web UX has gotten horrific. I used to visit Google News multiple times per day. Then the UX went to hell there too. Each iteration became worse. After the latest changes, it became so unbearably hideous and clunky that I couldn't stand it anymore. I got mad every time I loaded the site. But years of keyboard memory still had me typing in the URL constantly, getting mad every time it loaded up. I finally black…

UX Pro here. Google pays senior UX folks an average $160,000 they have "degrees" from third rate Unis like Stanford and Cal Poly tech. How dumb can they be? Do you think they will ever make any money?

Re: Ask HN: Anyone from Google here? The new Gmail UI is painful

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Post by of »

hawski wrote: post #18

I don't mind the look that much, but it's painfully slow. When an application gains a animated splash screen I know that it's time has come. I'm using a Chromebook, so in a way a Google blessed device and it's annoyingly slow. I'm switching to basic HTML view. If it will disappear I will get off gmail for good.

Woah, basic HTML view still looks nice! I forgot that was an option. I'm switching too.

Re: Ask HN: Anyone from Google here? The new Gmail UI is painful

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Post by maimeowmeow »

MrMember wrote: post #94
hello_asdf wrote: post #83

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't have revert option anymore.

Same, I reverted to the old UI a month ago or so but yesterday I was forced back to the new UI with no option to revert again.

Reload and quickly click html for the classic version.
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