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I find these UI refreshes an irksome feature of web software. They tend to appear on a day and time when you're most stressed, horking their newfangled wares with pop-ups that only do harm to the software's usability. Recent examples: the new Facebook chat sidebar abomination, the new Gmail people sidebar.
It looks nice, but it doesn't feel quite right. Too much functionality depends on iconography, which leaves me having to map pictograms to actual words. It's OK for me to read some words. You're going to have to translate the interface anyways. And there's very little use of contrast or color to help determine what is going on. My blogs and the reading list don't have a lot to differentiate each other, so I was initi…
Case in point being the new groups design. Huge buttons to create a new group, an action that happens very infrequently for me. Plus a huge splash screen with product information (similar to the Blogger blog in the reading list) which as a regular user, I just don't care.
What happened to the new templates they announced at the end of March? I liked the look and was hoping to try one out for a personal project. http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/03/fresh-new-perspective...
All the design changes since the launch of G+ could use some decrease in padding imo . In netbooks the real content will start halfway across the screen - lot of unnecessary scrolling, looks good though .
On Google Music, the actual music has good padding, but the rest of the page has so much crap I can barely see any songs. And that's on a 1366*768 display, so I'm a bit miffed.
Anyone mind posting a screenshot? I'd like to see the UI but I don't want to create a blog on Blogger just to see it.
Email redacted in the top right. Four blog titles (sites, not posts) redacted down the left.
It's pretty, but I'm left wondering why they bothered to launch it without the Google+ "funeral bar" integrated, or whatever you want to call it. I find these UI refreshes an irksome feature of web software. They tend to appear on a day and time when you're most stressed, horking their newfangled wares with pop-ups that only do harm to the software's usability. Recent examples: the new Facebook chat sidebar abominati…
What happened to the new templates they announced at the end of March? I liked the look and was hoping to try one out for a personal project. http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/03/fresh-new-perspective...
They are not really templates, but separate views. If you append "/view/ " to any blog URL on BlogSpot, you get this view. Example: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/view/flipcard
Looks like the /view is just to preview them
It looks nice, but it doesn't feel quite right. Too much functionality depends on iconography, which leaves me having to map pictograms to actual words. It's OK for me to read some words. You're going to have to translate the interface anyways. And there's very little use of contrast or color to help determine what is going on. My blogs and the reading list don't have a lot to differentiate each other, so I was initi…
The huge highlighted button seems to be a common usability issue with many of Google's new designs. They seem to confuse "new user" with "regular user". Case in point being the new groups design. Huge buttons to create a new group, an action that happens very infrequently for me. Plus a huge splash screen with product information (similar to the Blogger blog in the reading list) which as a regular user, I just don't…
