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Re: Try Blogger's New Interface

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Post by fribblerz »

CrazedGeek wrote: post #15
fribblerz wrote: post #14

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 .

The killer for me is this: http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lo0ebqK4bl1qzasmo.png 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.

An option to select from 2 settings would be better , like Gmail's new themes - dense/regular , although dense is still too spaced when compared to the default theme at the moment .

Re: Try Blogger's New Interface

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Post by travem »

benwerd wrote: post #10

Inexplicable. I'm pretty sure Google just released some kind of new social product (although I've been having trouble finding links around here). The word on the street is also that Google has some kind of reader app (the name escapes me). These two things are what this Blogger interface does, so why on earth aren't they integrated? Instead, they've taken a similar starting point (lightweight, white-heavy design that…

Actually what I'd expect from Microsoft is to delay launching the new thing for several years in order to integrate it with various other services, re-branding it to windows/live/.net XXX, and wondering why the world has moved on in the meantime

Re: Try Blogger's New Interface

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Post by iaskwhy »

nametoremember wrote: post #17
forgotusername wrote: post #11

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…

Have you nicknamed the Google bar as the "funeral bar" because it's dark? Are all dark things funeral things?

Never thought about it that way but it does start with a cross and my first name, kinda fits the nickname.

Re: Try Blogger's New Interface

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Post by clobber »

fribblerz wrote: post #21
CrazedGeek wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The killer for me is this: http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lo0ebqK4bl1qzasmo.png 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.

An option to select from 2 settings would be better , like Gmail's new themes - dense/regular , although dense is still too spaced when compared to the default theme at the moment .

I'm worried we'll lose the look and feel of the old themes once the new Gmail interface is rolled out. I dislike the Big Blue Button that is showing up in all of Google's UI refreshes too. Google's search results seem very cluttered as well.

Re: Try Blogger's New Interface

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Post by farlington »

Beautiful and functional. There are things to nitpick of course, but this is light years ahead of the old blogger. It's nice to see Google making a concerted effort to elevate the design of products across their portfolio. I used to think that visual design wasn't much of an institutional priority for G, but they've proven that wrong.

Re: Try Blogger's New Interface

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Post by coliveira »

This looks terrible in terms of usability. Everything is so white, there is no contrast at all. I find it really hard to see the difference between elements, and the "highlight" is barely visible. I guess one can get used to it, but would be much better with at least some contrast.

Re: Try Blogger's New Interface

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Post by Vivtek »

The only real problem I see with this interface is that my own dashboard pages now display content from Google that I don't care about. When I'm doing my content, I just want to see my content. Maybe the page layout of the dashboard is configurable, but ... I dunno. It's just too in-your-face.

Otherwise, though, I like it.

Re: Try Blogger's New Interface

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Post by Terretta »

fribblerz wrote: post #14

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 the other hand, the desktop interfaces can now be used on a Xoom or Galaxy Tab or iPad without having to zoom in to hit the right link.
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