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

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

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Post by pyman »

html5web wrote: post #255
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.

I describe it as too slow too. I wonder if they tested it before pushing it live to the world.

Countries, areas or users with slow internet connections should be given the option to use the classic UI, which in my case was much faster.

I guess the way Google works is: let’s ship something quickly(1) and then slowly(2) improve it.

(1) quickly: 2 years

(2) slowly: 4 years

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

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Post by pyman »

TeMPOraL wrote: post #46
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…

What's worse, every other web shop will be copying this yet another Google UX "innovation" in short order. I'd say Google is in no smart part responsible for the website bloat and general degradation of UX, just by setting example.

Google is famous for producing terrible, unusable UIs. Google Wave, Analytics, Gmail, Notes, Drive, etc.

The lack of consistency and common sense is unbelievable.

The only reason why Android has a user-friendly UI is because Google copied the design from Apple in 2007.

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

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Post by gtyras2mrs »

expertentipp wrote: post #60
subpixel wrote: post #12

It's worse than 'new Reddit', and I need to look at it 100x more often every day.

https://old.reddit.com - once they shut it down my reddit addiction will be cured.

I fear the next step after shutting down the old reddit option would be to severely cripple the API used by third-party apps to drive people to use their apps.

When that happens, I will likely give up on reddit entirely.

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

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Post by TheAlchemist »

This is really a disaster. I don't care that much for my personal email, however at work, it's definitely impacting.

It's slow as most already noted. But I also find that it's much more mentally exhaustive - it's maybe a bit more beautiful and fancy, but it's not what I look for in work - I want things simple, well aligned and as readable as possible. I've tried for several days the new interface and it was really a big downgrade from the previous UI.

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

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Post by eiieirurjdndjd »

amaccuish wrote: post #176
eiieirurjdndjd wrote: post #39

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Same. I’m actually at google but I’m not going to tell the gmail team about this post because 1. I don’t agree with it, and 2. Gmail team is already painfully aware that any given change will be unappealing to a subset of users. 3. They are probably already here, taking note, considering. Unfortunately we can’t all have a custom UI written exactly to our specifications. Gmail team has to try to do what they think is…

Outlook.com seem to have been making UI changes that haven't irked people.

Because no one uses it.

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

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Post by ProblemFactory »

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…

> Bring back contrast. Bring back visual dividers.

The "random content boxes and buttons floating in a sea of pure white" seems to be the latest awful trend in web design. I get that borders and shadows are out of style, but they are necessary for visually grouping things together.

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

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Post by brianmurphy »

cmroanirgo wrote: post #268
colanderman wrote: post #228

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How is that relevant to UI performance or stability?

It's indirectly relevant, because apart from UX issues, especially here on HN, I believe that people should also be aware of security and privacy issues. I wrote the comment especially in the light of people tripping across parent's recommendation. (There are lots of other threads here on HN indicating how people wish to migrate from gmail to something else, due to other Google/Alphabet Inc issues.) "Where requests f…

Nearly every service provider complies with legally issued requests. The ones that don't are either lying to you or fly by night operations that I wouldn't trust my business with.

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

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Post by forgot-my-pw »

kgwxd wrote: post #136
forgot-my-pw wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There's always resistance to new changes, but if we never change, we can't innovate. - just a user

I see no innovation in the new design. What's the opposite of innovate? Outnovate?

If you haven't read about it, new features include: snooze, reminders, suggested response, offline gmail
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